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RamenWarrior
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      12-16-2009
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.
 
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RamenWarrior
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      12-18-2009
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.

 
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RamenWarrior
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      12-22-2009
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.

 
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