WS03 SP2 integrated RIS image fails - load needed DLLs for HAL

Hi,

I've set up a lab for testing WDS and RIS for a Server SOE. I have a mixed
mode WDS/RIS server and when I try to build a machine from a WS03 SP2
integrated RIS OS image I get the following error during boot up for the GUI
mode setup.

-->8
Windows could not start because of an error in the software.
Please report this problem as:
load needed DLLs for HAL.
Please contact your support person to report this problem
-->8

To build my environment I started with a clean build of WS03 from an
SP1-integrated CD. Then I added DNS and DHCP, ran DCPromo, then installed
RIS and added a WS03 SP1 integrated RIS image from the CD.

Then I installed SP2. After this I copied the I386 files from the CD to
C:\I386 and then integrated SP2 into these. I then added the PE2.0 WIM from
the WAIK to get WDS/RIS working together. Then I added the
WS03-SP2-integrated RIS image.

Booting to PE from WDS works, as does the SP1 install of WS03 from RIS.

Ideas?

Cheers,
Jeremy.

Bump. Anyone got any new info on this bug?

"Jeremy" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've set up a lab for testing WDS and RIS for a Server SOE. I have a mixed
> mode WDS/RIS server and when I try to build a machine from a WS03 SP2
> integrated RIS OS image I get the following error during boot up for the GUI
> mode setup.
>
> -->8
> Windows could not start because of an error in the software.
> Please report this problem as:
> load needed DLLs for HAL.
> Please contact your support person to report this problem
> -->8
>
> To build my environment I started with a clean build of WS03 from an
> SP1-integrated CD. Then I added DNS and DHCP, ran DCPromo, then installed
> RIS and added a WS03 SP1 integrated RIS image from the CD.
>
> Then I installed SP2. After this I copied the I386 files from the CD to
> C:\I386 and then integrated SP2 into these. I then added the PE2.0 WIM from
> the WAIK to get WDS/RIS working together. Then I added the
> WS03-SP2-integrated RIS image.
>
> Booting to PE from WDS works, as does the SP1 install of WS03 from RIS.
>
> Ideas?
>
> Cheers,
> Jeremy.

I've fixed this problem now.

SP2 for WS03 doesn't seem to intergate properly uless you point it at a full
copy of the distribution CD. I had been simply copying the I386 file to the
disk, slipstreaming SP@ and pointing RIS to that for a new image.

I found this article:
<http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/c050419b-98a2-4802-b719-629a33a332391033.mspx?mfr=true>
and the only difference in the instructions from what I was doing was
copying the whole CD to disk, then slipstreaming SP2 to that. So I thought,
"hey it's worth a try" and lo and behold it worked.

"Jeremy" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've set up a lab for testing WDS and RIS for a Server SOE. I have a mixed
> mode WDS/RIS server and when I try to build a machine from a WS03 SP2
> integrated RIS OS image I get the following error during boot up for the GUI
> mode setup.
>
> -->8
> Windows could not start because of an error in the software.
> Please report this problem as:
> load needed DLLs for HAL.
> Please contact your support person to report this problem
> -->8
>
> To build my environment I started with a clean build of WS03 from an
> SP1-integrated CD. Then I added DNS and DHCP, ran DCPromo, then installed
> RIS and added a WS03 SP1 integrated RIS image from the CD.
>
> Then I installed SP2. After this I copied the I386 files from the CD to
> C:\I386 and then integrated SP2 into these. I then added the PE2.0 WIM from
> the WAIK to get WDS/RIS working together. Then I added the
> WS03-SP2-integrated RIS image.
>
> Booting to PE from WDS works, as does the SP1 install of WS03 from RIS.
>
> Ideas?
>
> Cheers,
> Jeremy.