I have installed Windows 2003 server and setup RIS and it works great. I want to boot Windows PE 2004 and then install Windows 2000 or Windows 2003 on that computer. When I startup the computer it PXE boots fine, choose the Windows PE setup I made.... it started to load and then I get ....

STOP:c000021a Fatal System Error. The session manager initialiaztion system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xc0000034 (0x00000000 0x00000000). The system has been shut down.

(and I followed the setup from the PE doc's word for word to get PE to run from a RIS server)

Anybody have a clue about this error?

Thanks

I looked into that stop error and found several hits...

you may want to try the same and compare the solutions to see if any of them might be close to solving your problem. This looks like a possible problem..

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308299

Hope this helps..

I would have loved to say that helped but.. I had already seen that info.... and named the directory with an X during the install.

Anyone else have any ideas?

Is it a new machine that u r trying to boot up? as hyperthreaded Intel or something? I got a similar failure on our new ones until realized it was a matter of of the ntoskrnl.exe on the WinPE.

I'm guessing, since I'm getting this error also,

Is your TargetPath option has a space in the windir name, and you are using NTFS

I've been trying to install xp into a folder named:

"\w n d w"

So far I've tried it w & w/o

the quotes

the \

One can get past the txtsetup mode, but upon the first reboot I get that screen

When I tried FAT32 different errors appearead earlier.

Guess there's no way to have a space in the default Systemroot dir