FBA Rebooting when trying to use EWF

Here is what is going on. I am testing the capabilities of EWF/HORM
with a hard drive before I spend money on a CF card. I am using XPe SP2
with FP2007.

After getting the target information and importing it into Target
Designer, I added the bare minimum components to have a functional XPe
GUI Desktop.

Deploying the image is done using the Windows PE environment to mount a
network share and install the image using the command sdimgr
z:\blah.sdi /writedisk:0 /yes

Tested that, worked fine. No problems with FBA entering a reboot loop.

I add in the EWF components so that I can test EWF functionality. FBA
goes through its steps normally and reboots as it should. When the
system boots back up XP Splash Shows up, then the Reset Setup Flag
shows, then reboot. This continues indefinitely.

The only difference between my known good configuration and is the
change from NT Loader to the EWF NT Loader and the inclusion of the
other EWF Components.


boot.ini:

[boot loader]
timeout=0
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW S
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP
Embedded" /fastdetect /noexecute=AlwaysOff

WERUNTIME.ini:

[RunTimeID]
RunTimeGUID={1D962156-8711-436D-B0A5-F55CAF002114}
RunTimePID=J9KHQ-38HJ3-9CKJG-GFRB6-XMXDY
RunTimeSKUCode=XPeCli
RunTimeOEMRev=
WEBuildDate=12/20/2006 1:21:51 PM
DeviceModel={00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}
DeviceRole=0
DeviceSerial=
DeviceLicense=

Some more information:

EWF Volume Configuration:
Number of Protected Volumes 1
Maximum Number of Overlay Levels 1
EWF Partition Size in KBytes 0
Disable Background Disk Defragmentation checked
Enable Hibernate-Once-Resume-Many Mode (HORM) unchecked
Protected Volume # 1
Start EWF Enabled checked
Enable Lazy Write unchecked
Disk Number 0
Partition Number 1
Overlay Type RAM
Optimization Option = Optimal Performance

in C:\Windows\fba\fbalog.txt (I shutdown and installed the harddrive on
a different machine)
There were 3 errors:
(Paths are not exact quotes)

PNP Flag section of FBA
FBAApplySecurityStringToRegKet Regkeysecurity failed! error 0x6

Registering Components section of FBA
FBARegQueue: DllRegisterServer /path/to/activeds.dll error 0x80040154

Processing Runonce section of FBA
FBAApplySecurityStringToRegKet Regkeysecurity failed! error 0x6

mykeaster wrote:

> Here is what is going on. I am testing the capabilities of EWF/HORM
> with a hard drive before I spend money on a CF card. I am using XPe SP2
> with FP2007.
>
> After getting the target information and importing it into Target
> Designer, I added the bare minimum components to have a functional XPe
> GUI Desktop.
>
> Deploying the image is done using the Windows PE environment to mount a
> network share and install the image using the command sdimgr
> z:\blah.sdi /writedisk:0 /yes
>
> Tested that, worked fine. No problems with FBA entering a reboot loop.
>
> I add in the EWF components so that I can test EWF functionality. FBA
> goes through its steps normally and reboots as it should. When the
> system boots back up XP Splash Shows up, then the Reset Setup Flag
> shows, then reboot. This continues indefinitely.
>
> The only difference between my known good configuration and is the
> change from NT Loader to the EWF NT Loader and the inclusion of the
> other EWF Components.
>
>
> boot.ini:
>
> [boot loader]
> timeout=0
> default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW S
> [operating systems]
> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP
> Embedded" /fastdetect /noexecute=AlwaysOff
>
> WERUNTIME.ini:
>
> [RunTimeID]
> RunTimeGUID={1D962156-8711-436D-B0A5-F55CAF002114}
> RunTimePID=J9KHQ-38HJ3-9CKJG-GFRB6-XMXDY
> RunTimeSKUCode=XPeCli
> RunTimeOEMRev=
> WEBuildDate=12/20/2006 1:21:51 PM
> DeviceModel={00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}
> DeviceRole=0
> DeviceSerial=
> DeviceLicense=

mykeaster,

Somehow EWF gets installed, configured and enabled before FBA is finished on your device.
I'd start EWF disabled and then manually enable it at run time to see if that is the cause of the problem.

Other FBA errors you mentioned don't seem to be relevant to the issue.

--
=========
Regards,
KM

> Some more information:
>
> EWF Volume Configuration:
> Number of Protected Volumes 1
> Maximum Number of Overlay Levels 1
> EWF Partition Size in KBytes 0
> Disable Background Disk Defragmentation checked
> Enable Hibernate-Once-Resume-Many Mode (HORM) unchecked
> Protected Volume # 1
> Start EWF Enabled checked
> Enable Lazy Write unchecked
> Disk Number 0
> Partition Number 1
> Overlay Type RAM
> Optimization Option = Optimal Performance
>
> in C:\Windows\fba\fbalog.txt (I shutdown and installed the harddrive on
> a different machine)
> There were 3 errors:
> (Paths are not exact quotes)
>
> PNP Flag section of FBA
> FBAApplySecurityStringToRegKet Regkeysecurity failed! error 0x6
>
> Registering Components section of FBA
> FBARegQueue: DllRegisterServer /path/to/activeds.dll error 0x80040154
>
> Processing Runonce section of FBA
> FBAApplySecurityStringToRegKet Regkeysecurity failed! error 0x6
>
> mykeaster wrote:

>