Windows Server 2003 RELEASED

[mickchip]

Pete
Does not get as far as the half screen, just to loading mup.sys
By the way my first pc was an Acorn Atom an 8bit 6502 processor one and I used to do assembler programming, It was the predecessor to the BBC computer.

[danfoshizzle]

not sure why its sticking at mup.sys, but it did used to happen alot to me until i started using so many different versions of the os.

[mickchip]

Just tried the image on an Asus eeepc 900 and it boots OK

[mickchip]

Also boots on Benq S6

[danfoshizzle]

try the ntldr an ntdetect from my build.

[pete]

Ha! Yes remember the name Acorn! So all of the drivers are there for the Asus Netbook eh? I have a 9xx something Asus with an SSD drive; small screen; great little traveling machine. Are you booting the Asus off a USB drive?

I played with assembler on the Commodore 64 around 1981. Concurrently had an AT&T 8086/286 but ran mostly DOS and first gen Windows 1.0 was very advanced (?) but very primitive remember it was a "feat" to get a digit to increment on the screen using assembler. The "64" would let you put code kind of under the kernel and swap it while still using the kernel. Remember too that it would take like two hours to copy a floppy disk. I did have a bulletin board up around the time with a 1200 baud Ventel modem. It would replicate itself / forum by calling other bulletin boards in the middle of the night. It was on a C64 with two floppy drives (gigantic drives). I did use the tape drive for saving programs; very very slow.

Here's a picture of a Triumph Spitfire I purchased around the 1970's. I drove it a bit until around 1988 or so; not a bunch though. Its been put away in storage now since the 1980's. I haven't gone to check on though in a couple of years though. It too only has maybe 30 K miles on it. My wife keeps bugging me to get rid of it; and I keep saying no to her. I did find UK tags for it which I keep on there; it is though left hand drive. I guess I want to keep it because my very first car in the 1960's was a 1963 Spitfire; learned about cars with this one. Sometime in the 60-70's also had a Jensen Healy sprite and another pocket rocket; it was a yellow Jensen Interceptor; very much a fun car to drive. My neighbor across the street has a vintage in perfect shape 60's Jaguar. Beautiful automobile. I've only seen him drive it once in the last 7 years.

[danfoshizzle]

how do the netbook ssd's connect? is it zif?

[danfoshizzle]

And i love interceptors lol

[pete]

The Asus netbook I have uses a kind of mini PCIE SSD drive. It has two of them. One for the wireless card and one for the SSD drive. It actually came with an 8 GB SSD and I swapped it for a 32Gb SSD. Runs great; almost but not quite small enough to put in your back pocket. Make for a good traveler. I have it inside a large camera case which is still maybe 1/4 the size of a typical laptop case. I just looked at it. Its the Asus 900A; given away here last year by Best Buy; very reasonably priced; sold new discounted; I guess no one was buying them.

Here's a picture of it with the memory and SSD drive. The wireless NIC PCIE card is to the right but you have to disassemble the cover to get to it.

[mickchip]

I used to have Triumph GT6 in which I fitted a 2.5 PI engine after the 2 litre blew up, used to se off Saab turbos.
eeepc has mini pcie ssd.

[danfoshizzle]

i have seen cheap ssd's ripped from netbooks relly cheap on ebay, 8gb look like its a standard zif connector?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Acer-Aspire-O ... 448wt_1185

[pete]

Great car; the GT-6; another pocket rocket. I personally like the GT-6 better than the TR-6 which was kind of boxy.

[pete]

You can get one with a ZIF but I don't think it and the ZIF drive will fit into an Asus 900A. Its very tight with no space in it for any type of drive.

[mickchip]

Tried your ntldr and NTDETECT still no go, thats it for today I'm off to bed

[danfoshizzle]

I was thinking of putting one in a external case and using it to boot the joggler lol, saves me waiting for a kingspec to ship, I am way too impatient lol

[pete]

I get about a 100% boot rate with the ZIF or IDE mini drive on the outside USB port. The internal SSD USB gives me similiar.

[danfoshizzle]

Been playing with untouched versions of windows, they boot and then on both os's freeze on exactly 3 minutes lol so looking like an edited version is the way to go.

[Mevi]

Happy Birthday Dan

Like MickChip, my mup.sys hangs before the half screen thing. I will try adding safemode & nogui switches to the boot to see if I can identify what is broken... probably something that is removed in TinyXP. I'll have a go later this morning as I got a bit sidetracked yesterday.

I had a go at trying to get the PLOP boot loader to chain from boot.ini. I hoped that the BIOS emulation would kick in and then chain to PLOP so that I could boot Windows 7 that I had working off USB (made using PWBOOT, it boots S-L-O-W-L-Y on my C2D HP laptop).

It didn't work. Setting the PLOP bootloader as default in boot.ini, I got an 'unhandledinterrupt'. Screenshot below.

Is the boot hardcoded to only boot WinXP? Is there a way anyone can think of to chain another bootloader?

[mickchip]

Dan
Well what do you know!, I have successfully booted Tiny XP Beast II edition, used your ntldr & NTDETECT.COM + the vga.sys patch.
thanks for the info, now to installing some drivers.

[pete]

Great news mickchip!

Curious; as I am not familiar with the Tiny XP Beast II edition; how large/small is the build?

Is it closer to a standard XP or embedded XP build?