I have reason to believe its version related problem, going to check the ISO with other version's Edit. re-install using latest version, no problem. [VirtualBox-6.1.36-152435-Win]
@George King I just build v1.6.2 under XP SP3 on my Asrock Extreme z690 board with 12900k cpu and Intel nvme Optane. Whole time until the ESD.iso is ready is 48 min. Now I am installing on the same board Dietmar
@George King Oha, after building USB stick with Rufus, at once I get the crazy know message from all the versions before: "Setup cant detect ESD" Dietmar EDIT: I put this USB stick in USB slot from the Asrock k6 z370 gaming board. There, install starts. This means, that the USB driver for boot does not work on any of the USB ports from the Asrock z690 Extreme board. May be, that the USB3 driver from AMD vers. 145 for boot would be a better choice here. EDIT2: It is not only USB: I burn a DVD with the WinXP_AIO_ESD.iso and use an Sata CD rom drive. Comes the same message "Setup cant detect ESD" on the Asrock z690 Extreme board with 12900k cpu very soon at Setup, before the language is choosen. EDIT3: The only Sata driver, that works for all boards is the Sata driver from Kai Schtrom. @George King , can you make a version with this driver for me for to understand, what is going on.
@diderius6 It probably needs some additional chipset driver as it can't detect DVD / USB after Windows 7 WinPE starts. Simply relaunch XP2ESD_Builder.cmd with only WINXISO with Windows 10 ISO and build Windows 10 based installer (no need to recreate install.wim).
@George King Now I can see the win10 bootmanager, but at the screen, where you can choose language, compi hangs Dietmar
Just start to play with plugins folder. Nothing is hardcoded. Add / Remove your drivers in drivers folder, these drivers are integrated into install.wim (no need to recreate it every time). Inspect winpe folder where you can find drivers, that are integrated into boot.wim. To create ISO with dynamic drivers, edit config.ini like this. Code: ; Integrated drivers into image INTEGRATEDRIVERS=No ; Copy drivers into ISO and automatically use them during setup DYNAMICDRIVERS=Yes This means install.esd is with original XP support, except new ACPI. Then you can swap your drivers on USB\drivers on every reinstall. For example you can keep only USB\drivers\x86\Ported\Generic_AHCI_1.0 USB\drivers\x86\Ported\Generic_USB3x_6.2.9200.21180 I have no idea what you mean. In previous try you was not able to enter setup right? Now you can? There are more setup phases, it's hard to orientate where you stuck without screens. I also have't seen any logs so I have no idea what was used to build etc.
I recommend, when using utilities on path, being sure to explicitly use the utility by location. I had a run which had a portion non-fatally fail because I have GNU expand on path before %systemroot%\System32\expand.exe, and frustratingly they do two completely different things.
Probably "only" expand, findstr, find, attrib, xcopy, compact, reg are without full path. Question is how many users are there who can encounter came issue with different tool than expected in standard system settings.
@George King I tried the new Preview 1.3 with the USB files. All I do on the Asrock z690 Extreme board with 12900k cpu. Now it hangs at the place, where you can choose the language. I tried both: Win7 and win10, and then win10 alone, same resultat, both hanging at the language choose Dietmar