Re: [ros-dev] CodePage Reg Key Error at Boot

[James Tabor]

Hartmut Birr wrote:
>   Ge van Geldorp wrote:
>  
> > >   From:
> > > James Tabor
> > >
> > >  Hi,
> > >  I'm getting "Couldn't open CodePage registry key. With OK".
> > >
> > >  I copied freeldr.sys and the rest and reinstall everything, including 
> > >  config files from hives. Installs and go. 1st install system, 2nd 
> > >  reboot ok run fine, and 3rd reboot and get the above error at freeldr.
> > >       
> >
> >  Not sure if this is the cause of the problem, but I just fixed a memory
> >  overwrite (r19068) which could potentially have caused the in-memory 
> >  copy of
> >  the registry to be corrupted. If this corrupt copy was then written 
> >  out to
> >  disk you could get that error message during the next boot. Again, not 
> >  sure
> >  if this was the cause of the problem (I can't reproduce the original
> >  problem), but the time frame seems to fit.
> >
> >  GvG
> >
> >  _______________________________________________
> >     
>  
>  I've investigate a little bit in the registry problem. Freeldr imports 
>  the binary hives. During importing the system hive, it fails at 
>
> \Registry\Machine\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Class\{4d36e972-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}.
>
>  A key or subkey cell has a wrong identifier. Freeldr stops at this point 
>  and imports the next hive. Later, freeldr does search for 
>  \Registry\Machine\SYSTEM\Select. This key isn't loaded,  because it is 
>  located after the wrong cell. Freeldr isn't able to create the correct 
>  link for \Registry\Machine\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet. I will check, if 
>  r19068 does fix the problem.
>  
>  - Hartmut
>  
>   
Yes, that worked.
Thanks,
James