Unable to boot from CD created in nlite

[MysteryMan]

This is driving me crazy!

Have spent past couple of days trying to create a lightweight installation of Windows XP for my eeePC and have been following a step-by-step guide.

Works beautifully, apart from not being able to persuade the PC to recognise the disc (DVD) during the boot process.

I checked the original CD and this is recognised fine.

The disc that nlite creates only has the following files/directories.....

I would have expected BOOT.??? or something.

Anybody got any ideas what is wrong?

[johnhc]

MysteryMan, how did you create your DVD? Are these all the files on your DVD? What is the total size of the source file? I had a problem when my source file got to 2.6 GB. The solution was to use the Mkisofs for the ISO Engine in the Create Bootable ISO task. And, 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.

EDIT: Please see this thread.

Edited January 2, 2010 by johnhc

[MysteryMan]

MysteryMan, how did you create your DVD? Are these all the files on your DVD? What is the total size of the source file? I had a problem when my source file got to 2.6 GB. The solution was to use the Mkisofs for the ISO Engine in the Create Bootable ISO task. And, 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.

EDIT: Please see this thread.

John

Thanks for reply! I will answer the questions in a moment, but, have made some progress. I went back into nlite session and burned to a CD-RW (rather than the DVD-RW used previously). When I start up the PC it does, indeed, recognise it and starts the Windows install process!

Now, the questions you asked.....

• The DVD was created by using the 'Burn Direct' option in nlite
  Yes, those are all the files on the DVD
  The size of all the files in the directory nlite created/modified is 339 MB (356,315,136 bytes), made up of 3,571 files in 206 folders
  

I have attached several files. The older pair are for when I tried to burn the DVD-RW and the later 2 are when I burned the CD-RW.

LAST_SESSION__205601.02_12.22.50_.INI

LAST_SESSION.INI

Edited January 2, 2010 by MysteryMan

[johnhc]

MysteryMan, quickly, you need to remove the posted Session_u.ini files! These contain your CD key and some other personal information. Quickly! John.

[MysteryMan]

MysteryMan, quickly, you need to remove the posted Session_u.ini files! These contain your CD key and some other personal information. Quickly! John.

John

Thanks! I'd just realised that and was about to remove when I saw your message!!!!!!

Should be gone now - phew!

[johnhc]

MysteryMan, yep, gone - thanks. Now that your system will boot the CD, are you installing OK? Sometimes, writing at a high speed can cause problems. You need to remove the Tweak "Explorer-Launch folder windows in a separate process" - it exposes a Windows bug, but not your problems. Please let us know where you stand now and if you have any problems. I see nothing obvious in you Last Session. Enjoy, John.