Hi

I've been working at my Unattended Windows XP installation disk. The simple version (just winxp noting more) works fine. I've been adding features to it (some applications & tweaks, patches, drivers) and from some point it started freezing at the very first boot. If i reboot the (virtual or real it is the same) pc it boots fine & proceeds with the rRunOnceEx commands. Everything works exactly as it is supposed to do.

so (to make no mistakes) at the very first windows boot (after the installation), it freezes at the black screen with the big windows xp logo and the message "one moment please...". I can move the mouse cursor but no matter how long I wait, it won't go further (until i reboot).

what could be the cause for this?

It will b more easy if u post ur cmdlines.txt , and RunOnce items ,,

just to ensure a useful specific solution ..

I don't think those can be of any help since the first after-install-boot fails (before the RunOnce-commands can be executed). When I reboot it boots succesfully and installs all RunOnce-programs succesfully.

Things we need to know: What you're doing in svcpack.inf and cmdlines.txt and are you integrating any drivers for PnP enumeration.

Cmdlines.txt takes place before your first reboot.

okay here you go:

cmdlines.txt

[COMMANDS]
"RUNONCEEX.CMD"

RUNONCEEX.CMD

cmdow @ /HID
@echo off

FOR %%i IN (D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z) DO IF EXIST %%i:\CD.txt SET CDROM=%%i:

SET KEY=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx

REG ADD %KEY% /V TITLE /D "Installing Applications" /f

REG ADD %KEY%\005 /VE /D "Trend Micro OfficeScan Client" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\005 /V 1 /D "\"%CDROM%\apps\TrendMicroOfficeScan.msi\"" /f

REG ADD %KEY%\030 /VE /D "Spybot SD 1.4" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\030 /V 1 /D "\"%CDROM%\apps\Spybot SD 1.4 nl.exe\"" /f

REG ADD %KEY%\035 /VE /D "SpywareBlaster 3.4" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\035 /V 1 /D "\"%CDROM%\apps\SpywareBlaster v3.4.exe\"" /f

REG ADD %KEY%\040 /VE /D "Easycleaner" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\040 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\apps\EasyCleaner.exe" /f

REG ADD %KEY%\060 /VE /D "Sun Java Runtime Environment" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\060 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\apps\install_sun_jre.cmd" /f

REG ADD %KEY%\080 /VE /D "Importing Registry Tweaks" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\080 /V 1 /D "REGEDIT /S %CDROM%\apps\regtweaks.reg" /f

REG ADD %KEY%\950 /VE /D "BTS DriverPacks: finishing..." /f
REG ADD %KEY%\950 /V 1 /D "%SystemDrive%\D\BTS_DPs_finish.cmd" /f

REG ADD %KEY%\999 /VE /D "Cleaning Up and Rebooting" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\999 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\apps\cleanup.cmd" /f

EXIT

svcpack.inf

;Windows XP
[Version]
Signature=" NT$"
MajorVersion=5
MinorVersion=1
BuildNumber=2600

[SetupData]
CatalogSubDir="\i386\SVCPACK"

[SetupHotfixesToRun]
KB873339.exe /Q /O /N /Z
KB885626.exe /Q /O /N /Z
KB885835.exe /Q /O /N /Z
KB885836.exe /Q /O /N /Z
KB886185.exe /Q /O /N /Z
KB887742.exe /Q /O /N /Z
KB888113.exe /Q /O /N /Z
KB890046.exe /Q /O /N /Z
KB890859.exe /Q /O /N /Z
KB891781.exe /Q /O /N /Z
KB893066.exe /Q /O /N /Z
KB893756.exe /Q /O /N /Z
KB893803.exe /Q /O /N /Z
KB894391.exe /Q /O /N /Z
KB896358.exe /Q /O /N /Z
KB896422.exe /Q /O /N /Z
KB896423.exe /Q /O /N /Z
KB896424.exe /Q /O /N /Z
KB896428.exe /Q /O /N /Z
KB898461.exe /Q /O /N /Z
KB899587.exe /Q /O /N /Z
KB899589.exe /Q /O /N /Z
KB899591.exe /Q /O /N /Z
KB900725.exe /Q /O /N /Z
KB901017.exe /Q /O /N /Z
KB901214.exe /Q /O /N /Z
KB902400.exe /Q /O /N /Z
KB904706.exe /Q /O /N /Z
KB905414.exe /Q /O /N /Z
KB905749.exe /Q /O /N /Z
KB905915.exe /Q /O /N /Z
KB908519.exe /Q /O /N /Z
KB910437.exe /Q /O /N /Z
KB912919.exe /Q /O /N /Z
qchain.exe

and I've integraded the Bashrat's driverpacks (chipset, graphicsA, soundB, Land and wlan)

This CD is Windows XP SP2 PRO (for use at work). I've also made a home-version (for use at home -duh) for wich I copied the svcpack directory and inf-file. Have almost the same runonceex.cmd file and integraded the same driverpack (except i used soundA). This works FINE !

So i'm going to tweak & tune a bit more and if it doesn't work I'll start over for the Pro-version. If it suddenly works this post will dissapear (unless someone finds it interesting enough) otherwise you'll hear back from me ;o)

if you have any ideas where my setup goes wrong: please do tell me!

greets!

It's quite possible there's a driver issue. If your using method 2 with BTS, it's quite easy to just leave out one of the driver packs. Also, I don't believe you need qchain in your svcpack.inf. I believe that ended with NT4 or possibly after one of the 2000 service packs.

thanks, I'll try that. And about the qchain: that's what the manual at unattended.msfn.org said..... Guess it won't harm too

ok found it were, it was in videopackA. I've received 2 new Dell Latitude D610's today. On one it worked flawless and the otherone hung again. After reboot all drivers but the videodriver was installed.

thanks again for the advise!