acpi.sys not found during install when IE7 integrated

[bmoses]

Hello community, I have recently become an nLite junkie

I'm having a problem where I get this message: "acpi.sys not found" during the textmode install portion of XP 32bit. I've ruled out all other possibilities such as integrated drivers, removed components, tweaks, etc. This seems to only happen when I integrate IE7. Is this a known issue? I've searched the internet for hours but I can't find another example of this same failure.

System is a P4 - Biostar P4VMA, integrated video, bare bones system.

[johnhc]

bmoses, this is not an IE7 problem. Many people have integrated it and this is the first time I have heard of this problem. I suspect you have run nLite more than once against the same source, so, please attach (not paste) your Last Session.ini. Make sure to always start with a fresh copy of your CD files/folders, do all your work in one nLite session and integrate only one SP. Please report when you have a solution, so others can benefit. Enjoy, John.

[bmoses]

John, thank you for the quick response. Here is my .ini file.

I will keep working on this. My lack of finding anyone else with this same problem leads me to believe that is my own unique situation. I do believe that I am starting with a fresh copy of XP each time, but I will double check this as well.

Thanks again,

Ben

LAST_SESSION.INI

[johnhc]

bmoses, your Last Session is about as simple as it gets and I see no problem there. I again suspect you are running nLite more than once. Please do a search on your search folder (before and after running nLite) and see if you have acpi.sy*. I think you should have at least a ACPI.SY_ in your I386 folder. If not, perhaps you have a bum CD. What is the source of your CD? Enjoy, John.

[GrofLuigi]

Hi bmoses,

I'm not familiar with VIA chipset, but from the Biostar description of P4VMA-M (is that your board? there is no board without M!) I see it has both IDE and SATA connectors. Depending on where your BOOT partition is located, you may need to integrate the SATA driver (found on their drivers page).

And what johnhc said.

GL

[bmoses]

I'm not familiar with VIA chipset, but from the Biostar description of P4VMA-M (is that your board? there is no board without M!) I see it has both IDE and SATA connectors. Depending on where your BOOT partition is located, you may need to integrate the SATA driver (found on their drivers page).

You are correct, sir. The board does have integrated SATA into the VIA southbridge, I believe, as well as the regular 2 channel IDE. I have broken open the SATA drivers and I can successfully integrate the textmode drivers without a problem. In fact I can run the entire nLite configuration exactly the way I want without a problem except for the inclusion of IE7 under the hotfixes section. If I include IE7 in the hotfixes section I get the "acpi.sys not found" message during the textmode setup of XP.

Thanks for looking into such detail.

[bmoses]

Well, I took my original copy of XP w/SP1 and used nLite to slipstream SP3 and integrate IE7. This is all I did, nothing more, and I still get the "acpi.sys not found" error during textmode install of XP (32bit). I'm getting stumped here... running out of ideas. My IE7 .exe is a day old and my SP3 .exe is probably 1 year old.

I'll keep bangin my head against this.

[johnhc]

bmoses, did you do the search I asked you to do? Please post the size (not size on disk) and MD5 for your SP3 and IE7 installer. I see no integration of an SP in you Last Session. This increases my suspicion that you have run nLite more than once. Please don't hurt your head; you may need it someday. Enjoy, John.

EDIT:There is an acpi.sys file in SP3. Does your nLited ISO install if you remove IE7 installer?

Edited May 2, 2009 by johnhc

[bmoses]

Sorry john, I forgot to mention that I did do a search and compare of the acpi.sys files both before and after the IE7 integration and they show up in the same four places "\i386, \DRIVERS, \SP1 and \SP3" (in the DRIVERS, SP1 and SP3 they are in .cab files). I'll check the sizes.

Yes, I can install XP just fine as it stands in it's slipstreamed SP3 form. I can also take that same \i386 folder and run it through nLite and tweak and modify any way I want and it will work fine, as long as I don't integrate IE7. weird.

I'll continue working on this tonight.

Thanks again!

[johnhc]

bmoses, SP1 and SP3? Please do this: Copy your original CD into a folder. Please post a screen shot of a Windows Explorer view of the folder. Run nLite, integrating SP3 and IE7 in ONE run - nothing else except your Unattended stuff. Let us know what is happening.

We don't need to know about SP1, since it should not even be there. Please post the size and MD5 for both SP3 and IE7 installer. Enjoy, John.

[bmoses]

OK, sorry for the delay, I had some trouble with a Sil3512 card and my FreeNAS box.

My MD5s and size info for SP3 and IE7 are as follows:

WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-ENU.exe MD5=BB25707C919DD835A9D9706B5725AF58 size=331,805,736 bytes

IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe MD5=EA16789F6FC1D2523F704E8F9AFBE906 size=15,452,536 bytes

Does this look correct?

Here is a screen capture of my XP Install copied file structure. I realized I had been using an install that included SP1 so I dug around and found an older disc that did not contain an SP at all.

Unfortunately, after using this older XP install the integrating only SP3 and IE7 and testing the newly created install, I still get the same error of "acpi.sys not found" very early in the textmode setup. Logically the error occurs right as the setup begins to access acpi.sys or acpi related files. I can tell this because sometimes I can see the text flash in gray bar at the bottom of the screen for a moment before the message is displayed the install halts.

I am baffled by this because I believe I must be the only person having this issue.

Thanks again for you timely support!

Ben

[bmoses]

You know I just realized I am doing this all over a network, could that have anything to do with it?

[johnhc]

bmoses, I am stumped. Your MD5 and size agree with mine. You can certainly slip SP3 into a CD with SP1 (or SP2), if the SP was part of the original Windows CD. I have not ever used networked files so cannot tell you if this could be a problem. I would assume it should work. I have a vague memory of others talking about networked files. Please do a search here for hopefully more information. Is it possible for you to try it not over a network? I hope some others will comment. Please let us know if you can try without the network. Enjoy, John.

[bmoses]

HARK!

To John and community,

I had a a few minutes the other day to try copying the install, IE7 and SP3 to my local machine and run the nLite integration function for SP3 and IE7 on the XP install and then test it and much to my surprise it worked! The setup did not fail with message "acpi.sys could not be found" message. Needless to say I was ecstatic! I'm almost hesitant to write this because I don't want to jinx my luck. However, I still remained stumped by failure that apparently was the result of performing the nLite function over a network. I surely can't believe that I'm the only one who has attempted this function completely over a networked drive. I should think the lower layers of the OSI model would have handled any data corruption. Anyone else successfully perform nLite over a networked drive?

[Guest]

Personally, I've always had a love/hate relationship with Windows SMB networking. Having had a home network for 12 years, Windows protocols vary from completely nonfunctional between two differing OSes (98SE to XP, for example) to the cautious optimism of XPx64-XPx64-XPx86 (or SaMBa on Ubuntu 8.4, when I was trying it out). At present, if I want to trust that a file of medium to large size reaches its destination uncorrupted, I use FTP.

And, yes, I use the default network settings.