[The Art of OEM - nLite & OEM Preinstallation]

If the MBR did not contain the NT 5.2 boot code, it wouldn't even boot to the BSOD. By the way, what cool wallpaper are you using at the end of part 2 on the Home Server box?

[The Art of OEM - nLite & OEM Preinstallation]

Hi, I'm back again, with another question. I have just added the SOURCES folder to an Ghost 12 CD, and created an ISO with just the folders/files BOOT, EFI, SOURCES and BOOTMGR. It boots correctly to the SREShell, and I can choose an command prompt there, and start D:\Sources\Setup.exe. The first time I tried, it didn't correctly format the partition in VMware 6, and died with an error about preparing the hard drive. Restarted the setup, now manually formatted the seemingly created C:\ partition, and installed on it. The image got on the drive, but then I got an error about that writing boot.ini failed, or something like that. Setuperr.log shows an error about NtPathToArcPath failed for \Device\HardDisk0\Partition1.

How can this be solved?

-- Bas

EDIT: After reformatting a few times with the same HDD, it installed, but I got an INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE on first boot. On VPC, where I made the image, I followed the instructions as mentioned in part 2, and sysprep.inf contains all required stuff. The setup issue still needs to be solved, as it's not useful to need to format 5 times.

[The Art of OEM - nLite & OEM Preinstallation]

Yeah, including 1 thing I don't need: the need for 512 MB RAM... Which my testing PC does not have, and I also can't have in Virtual PC/VMware, as my physical PC has just 512 MB...

[The Art of OEM - nLite & OEM Preinstallation]

Hmm, it seems like BartPE's ramdisk plugin is not using my Server 2003 ramdisk.sys, but an own ramdriv.sys. Let's see how I can solve this.

EDIT: Hmm, I don't see a solution... I guess the ramdisk plugin inf file needs to be changed too, but what?

[The Art of OEM - nLite & OEM Preinstallation]

Hmm, after re-checking the dependencies, also copying them to the sources folder, running depends again to make sure nothing's wrong (only missing is MSJAVA.dll), the setup still dies. Also downloaded the clean setup from sourceforge.net, but it still did not work... :/

What could be the problem?

-- Bas

[The Art of OEM - nLite & OEM Preinstallation]

Hi all,

I have followed this guide, and am now testing my BartPE + Longhorn Setup ISO. The setup did get to the partition choice in my Server 2003 desktop, but, on the BartPE CD, it drops to the command shell of startnet.cmd, after I select the partition selection button, or Next. I did use an modified Longhorn setup, as I could not get an untouched one, but the only change is that there is no dotnetpe.cab, and there is a weird bitmap in the loading screen. Also, I'm deploying XP Pro, but the setup only wanted to run on 2003, so I built it with 2003.

Could anyone help?

-- Bas

[98SE2ME = Killer Replacements: ME -> 98 SE]

After installing 98SE2ME on my Dutch Win98SE (yes, I changed the CAB files), everything still works. Okay, everything except my sound card...

It gives the following error:

The NTKERN.VXD,MMDEVLDR device loader(s) for this device could not load the device driver. (Code 2)

(or something like that)

It is a VIA Vinyl (details needed?) on-board sound card, installed with 98SE drivers. Updating the driver does not help, as it IS the latest version. Also re-installing the driver does not help.

Could someone help?

Greets,

Bas

EDIT: Okay, fixed it by manually specifying the location of the drivers, and choosing the VXD drivers, instead of the WDM drivers.