Server 2008 R2 boots to the recovery menu
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From: RamenWarrior on 16 Dec 2009 12:38 I have a storport driver that loads just fine on various flavors of Windows 2003 and 2008. However when I use 2008 R2, the system will only boot to the recovery menu. I can boot the "last known good" configuration but that requires me to reinstall my driver. The driver seems to work fine and I can run IOMeter indefinitely. But when I shutdown and reboot, I am back to the recovery menu. My driver is not responsible for the boot drive so I am a little confused about what the issue is.
From: RamenWarrior on 18 Dec 2009 11:52 Is it possible that this problem is caused by my driver lacking a signature? I thought that unsigned drivers were allowed with R2 if the kernel debugger was attached. I know that I can disable signature checking as an advanced boot option, but I don't think it is possible to select the kernel debugger boot option after making a selection from the advanced options. "RamenWarrior" wrote: > I have a storport driver that loads just fine on various flavors of Windows > 2003 and 2008. However when I use 2008 R2, the system will only boot to the > recovery menu. > > I can boot the "last known good" configuration but that requires me to > reinstall my driver. The driver seems to work fine and I can run IOMeter > indefinitely. But when I shutdown and reboot, I am back to the recovery menu. > > My driver is not responsible for the boot drive so I am a little confused > about what the issue is.
From: RamenWarrior on 22 Dec 2009 14:02
Is found a process for self signing my driver and it seems to help. There is no longer a warning about an unsigned driver but there is a warning about my certificate. That seems fine because the driver installs and I can access my devices. However when I reboot, I am once again sent to the recovery menu. I selected "Boot with debugger" from the boot menu but my debugger is not active. Is it possible that an intermediate use of "Last known good config" caused the debugger to be disabled? "RamenWarrior" wrote: > Is it possible that this problem is caused by my driver lacking a signature? > I thought that unsigned drivers were allowed with R2 if the kernel debugger > was attached. I know that I can disable signature checking as an advanced > boot option, but I don't think it is possible to select the kernel debugger > boot option after making a selection from the advanced options. > > "RamenWarrior" wrote: > > > I have a storport driver that loads just fine on various flavors of Windows > > 2003 and 2008. However when I use 2008 R2, the system will only boot to the > > recovery menu. > > > > I can boot the "last known good" configuration but that requires me to > > reinstall my driver. The driver seems to work fine and I can run IOMeter > > indefinitely. But when I shutdown and reboot, I am back to the recovery menu. > > > > My driver is not responsible for the boot drive so I am a little confused > > about what the issue is. |