Snowfairy Posted December 16, 2004 Share Posted December 16, 2004 I've been trying to make an unattended CD with SP2, and after copying my CD with SP1 and integrating SP2, then burning. The CD works in a virtual machine, but, when trying to use it on the actual machine, it fails after copying files from textmode on the next boot, freezing on the boot screen with the little flashy blue dots.I'm not trying to do anything else special, and I'm at a loss to figure out even what's really going wrong, if it's freezing on loading some driver, or if somethings in the wrong place or what. As it fully completes textmode setup just fine Thanks in advance for any help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astalavista Posted December 16, 2004 Share Posted December 16, 2004 post your winnt.sif and your runonceEX.cmddid u edit your setup boot screen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCT Posted December 16, 2004 Share Posted December 16, 2004 maybe u dont have your SATA drivers installed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowfairy Posted December 16, 2004 Author Share Posted December 16, 2004 MCT, That's a slight possibility. However, it seems they install just fine, as when they don't install properly I end up with a blue screen of death on the next boot and usually something akin to unable to mount boot volume, or something like that. Astalavista, it's right after text-mode setup, I don't have a runonceEX.cmd and the winnt.sif well, I'd have trouble believing that could be it, there's nothing special in mine, just default hide and the file generated by the XP SP2 deployment tools. I'd post it anyways except I've kinda thrown it away in frustration until something else comes to light.On a second note, I did dink around with it more, and I managed to get it to a point that I could choose to boot in safe mode, and I was able to see that it's freezing whilst loading mup.dll. So, not sure what that means or how I'd fix that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHz Posted December 16, 2004 Share Posted December 16, 2004 This could be a driver issue maybe. Also, perhaps you should check your system with Memtest86, to ensure that your hardware is fine. Remaking the project and burning again, may help? It could be just bad CD media causing this? Hard to pick for what symptoms I see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astalavista Posted December 16, 2004 Share Posted December 16, 2004 I don't have a runonceEX.cmd and the winnt.sifhow are u installing your drivers' without a winnt.sif? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowfairy Posted December 16, 2004 Author Share Posted December 16, 2004 That came out wrong.I don't have a runonceEX.cmd.I have a winnt.sif (I just had a weird run-on sentence that didn't make full sense.)Further notes, I've attempted just installing SP2, it froze on mup.dllSo, whether I'm installing from CD, or just installing from scratch after installing from a working SP1 cd, it stops on mup.dllA format and retry, three differences between try 1 and try 2 on installing with an SP1 cd and then installing SP2.Try 1: Used downloadable SP2 to install, had usb cd-burner turned on, did not use windows update to patch to current before SP2.Try 2: Used windows update to patch to current. USB CD-burner was turned off, and I used windows update to install SP2.Try 2 worked.It's seeming that I just have a problem with the non-windows update version of SP2 That's the most logical guess anwyays, as I really doubt that the other two things have that much of an affect, but they were the only differences. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cartoonite Posted December 16, 2004 Share Posted December 16, 2004 It sounds to me like the SP2 redistribution pack you downloaded may be corrupted. Have you tried re-downloading it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowfairy Posted December 17, 2004 Author Share Posted December 17, 2004 Nuhunh, I haven't, cause it seems to 'work'. Although, I suppose I could try that. I'd note that it works even off the CD when testing in a virtual PC.As for corrupt downloads, is there a checksum of a proper SP2 download or some such that I can use to verify that I've gotten the Service Pack downloaded properly?I'm also beginning to wonder if it's a possibility that nLite simply isn't writing the .ISO properly or with the wrong options. Although, I think if that was the case more people would have problems than just myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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