hal.dll is missing or corrupted

[ivan]

Hello everyone.
I have a HP computer with windows XP Professional intalled on F: drive. I need to start ubuntu system from a USB stick.
I tried PLoP Manager 5.0.12 and some older versions. When i select windows from plop menu it runs correctly,
but when i start from USB stick i get an error (hal.dll is missing or corrupted). I tried on other computers and it works fine.
I think the problem is that windows is installed on F drive. Has PLoP support this configuration? Cant it be due to another problem?

PLoP was  configured with hiddenUSB option.

This is a copy/paste from my boot.ini file:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\plop\plpbtldr.bin="PLoP"

Can anyone help me whith this problem?
Regards.

[Elmar]

hi,

but when i start from USB stick i get an error (hal.dll is missing or corrupted). I tried on other computers and it works fine.

please tell the whole boot sequence

pc on -> then what? plop boot manager -> usb boot -> .... ?

regards
elmar

[ivan]

Hi Elmar.
The method i used is the number 7 (Running without harddisk using windows boot menu).
The boot sequence is: pc on -> appears the windows boot menu showing option 1 windows and option 2 PLoP
If i select windows it runs correctly, is load windows as operative system.
If i select PLoP it should load an UBUNTU live system located in a USB stick, but it shows the hall.dll error.

The process to configure plpbt.bin was to set "hidden USB" with GUI tool, i tried to set it from command line too with the same result.

Thanks for your time.

Regards.

[Elmar]

remove the entry from the boot.ini and use the new program plpbt4win (or the batch file InstallToBootMenu).

see http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager.html#runwin

more details: http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager.html#plpbt4win


regards
elmar

[ivan]

Hi.
I tried the last version too but i found these problems:
The bat file have the variable "DRIVE" set to "C" value, then create a directory on this drive. This drive is CD-ROM reader so i get the error message "You have no admin rights....". I set the variable to F (windows Drive) and then i get the error "Unsupported operating system" just after message "Creating boot menu entry" so i think plpbt4win.exe failed because it tries to find boot ini in C:\ in order to add the entry.

Anyway i tried to make the process manually like older versions but using 5.0.13 binaries, and i found the hall.dll error.

Regards.

[Elmar]

is f: physically the first internal hard disk?

[ivan]

Hi.
There is only a HD installed, but it has a recover partition before Windows drive.
Regards

[Elmar]

the unusual install to f: is a problem for plpbt4win and boot.ini. i have to fix this.

however, when i fix plpbt4win then its possible that it still does not work. i don't know any reason why somebody installs windows to f: instead of c:. for now i say staring from boot.ini is not supported for such an installation.