Hal Issues

[Foose]

I am running into a mild issue with my base image. It basically deals with the fact I cannot get rid of the ACPI standard hal.

My test/build machine is an R40 (P4 2.4ghz with 512megs of ram). The bios is up a revision from June '06. My new deploy machines will be core duo or core 2 duo machines that will be slowly switched out as leases expire. I still need to support my older (Pentium 4 or Pentium M) systems with my image, so I assumed I would try to do the ACPI Uniprocessor HAL during the base image install and have it update if multiprocessor is there via the sysprep.ini.

Anyway, I have tried multiple times during the CD install and once either ACPI Uniprocessor or ACPI Multiprocessor is selected as the HAL i want to use, it seems to load the initial drivers and hang before the EULA (this is in the text based section of XP install). If i go back and select the generic ACPI HAL it proceeds fine. I am using an XP SP2 VLK CD.

Now on my core duo machines, the ACPI HAL is functioning just fine, but I am sure it is not the most optimal build for it.

Any ideas?

[IcemanND]

Are any of the machines you are going to deploy your image to ACPI Standard HALs to start with when installing XP normally?

I believe all of the systems you described are either ACPI UNI or MULTI processors HALs. If this is the case build your image on a Multiprocessor HAL system, so one of the dual cores, then add the line to sysprep to downgrade it to a uniprocessor HAL if it is needed when deployed.

[tstumph]

Here is a great little utility that will let you swap hal types without any kind of PE environment....I've tested on several models and it works great.

It's called mysysprep:

http://jimtsay.googlepages.com/mysysprep