First boot agent rolls over and over

Here is a posting on qoogle groups about
this problem:

Fixed font - Proportional font

First Boot Agent Just Restarts Windows? No Errors?
All 4 messages in topic - view as tree

Chris Lanier Aug 9 2003, 7:55 pm show options
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.embedded
From: "Chris Lanier" - Find messages by this author
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 20:53:40 -0500
Local: Sat, Aug 9 2003 8:53 pm
Subject: First Boot Agent Just Restarts Windows? No Errors?
Reply to Author | Forward | Print | Individual Message | Show original | Report Abuse

When trying to boot into XP embedded i get to the First Boot Agent then
Windows just reboots. No errors, nothing. when building the image i get no
error and two warnings one of which is "R: Warning 1116: Building
unreleased component: "devices [Version 1.0, R2]" the other is that i'm
using the 180 day trial.....I'm only including basic Windows functions in
the buidl i.e. NTFS, Explorer shell, and Windows media functions. Is their
something i'm doing wrong. i watched and followed the video on the XP
embedded site but i cant boot into embedded.


Nandini [MS] Aug 9 2003, 11:41 pm show options
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.embedded
From: "Nandini [MS]" - Find messages by this author
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 21:40:08 -0700
Local: Sat, Aug 9 2003 11:40 pm
Subject: Re: First Boot Agent Just Restarts Windows? No Errors?
Reply to Author | Forward | Print | Individual Message | Show original | Report Abuse

Chris,

Refer to this article
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/embedded/community/tips/xp/reboots.asp

Nandini

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

"Chris Lanier" wrote in message

news:eZOHIntXDHA.1492@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

- Hide quoted text -
- Show quoted text -
> When trying to boot into XP embedded i get to the First Boot Agent then
> Windows just reboots. No errors, nothing. when building the image i get
no
> error and two warnings one of which is "R: Warning 1116: Building
> unreleased component: "devices [Version 1.0, R2]" the other is that i'm
> using the 180 day trial.....I'm only including basic Windows functions in
> the buidl i.e. NTFS, Explorer shell, and Windows media functions. Is
their
> something i'm doing wrong. i watched and followed the video on the XP
> embedded site but i cant boot into embedded.



Chris Lanier Aug 10 2003, 5:16 pm show options
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.embedded
From: "Chris Lanier" - Find messages by this author
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 17:14:27 -0500
Local: Sun, Aug 10 2003 5:14 pm
Subject: Re: First Boot Agent Just Restarts Windows? No Errors?
Reply to Author | Forward | Print | Individual Message | Show original | Report Abuse

Ok...That you for that bit of info, i only haev one problem now. Now do i
find out the drive letter from Real Mode? It's not like i can boot into DOS
seeing that all my paritions are NTFS. Is their another way to figure it
out? Thanks Again.

"Nandini [MS]" wrote in message

news:%23UY77lvXDHA.2476@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

- Hide quoted text -
- Show quoted text -
> Chris,

> Refer to this article
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/embedded/community/tips/xp/reboots.asp

> Nandini

> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.

> "Chris Lanier" wrote in message
> news:eZOHIntXDHA.1492@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > When trying to boot into XP embedded i get to the First Boot Agent then
> > Windows just reboots. No errors, nothing. when building the image i
get
> no
> > error and two warnings one of which is "R: Warning 1116: Building
> > unreleased component: "devices [Version 1.0, R2]" the other is that i'm
> > using the 180 day trial.....I'm only including basic Windows functions
in
> > the buidl i.e. NTFS, Explorer shell, and Windows media functions. Is
> their
> > something i'm doing wrong. i watched and followed the video on the XP
> > embedded site but i cant boot into embedded.



Andy Allred [MS] Aug 10 2003, 11:07 pm show options
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.embedded
From: "Andy Allred [MS]" - Find messages by this author
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 21:06:01 -0700
Local: Sun, Aug 10 2003 11:06 pm
Subject: Re: First Boot Agent Just Restarts Windows? No Errors?
Reply to Author | Forward | Print | Individual Message | Show original | Report Abuse

Did you look at the fba log in the runtime at .\windows\fba\fbalog.txt.
Usually if the drive letter is incorrect fba will tell you what drive letter
it was supposed to be, you'll see it all over the log.

Also, if you need help understanding the drive lettering scheme, this is
explained on various web sites I'm sure, but the first partition of the
first HD is C:, the first partition of the second HD is D:, the second
partition of the first HD is E:, .......

--
Andy

so look at the file fbalog.txt
i found the file and low and behold.
all the entries state:
17:49:40 PM - [FBAFixWindowsPathsInRegistry] Incorrect WinDir: [J:\WINDOWS] should be [D:\WINDOWS]

now to find out if this can be repaired in situ.
i never found out if it could be fixed in situ.
i went back and when to the target settings
and made sure that correct drive was was in all the
entries.
also the fba took a bit of time. this makes sense
as when it failed it took almost no time, because
in each case it wad failing.