Hi terry, hi jss,
thanks for your help on making windows xp run on laptops with slp native and in VBox.
I face a similar problem compared to darose. Unfortunately I can't avoid it like darose by installing windows xp in another partition.
I need the windows from native partition. My computer is a DELL Precision M6300 laptop with pre-installed windows xp and Kubuntu 9.10. So I guess
it also uses SLP. Luckily windows xp is already booting completely. The only problem still missing seems to be the activation.
@jss Can you please help me completing the steps you told darose?
I think it might be also interesting for others facing the problem to read the complete solution.
The output of OEMBIOS.EXE is
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Windows XP OEMBIOS Test v1.1/269/106 (C) 2007-2010 severach @ msfn forums
F:Dell System OEMBIOS.CAT CRC=63875D1F
F:Dell System OEMBIOS.CAT CRC=B6F0EEFD
These Royalty OEM install CD's should preactivate (SLP) on your system.
Lines starting with E: are not reliably detected when running under Windows
Press Enter!
ERRORLEVEL 1
From oembios.net I found:
For 63875D1F: It seems to be invalid as it is crossed out.
For B6F0EEFD: The strings mentioned are: "Dell System", "Dell Computer", "Dell System", "Dell System", "Dell Inc"
Now I have no idea how to proceed with the steps you mentioned, for example how to find the memory areas of the SLP string.
I hope I mentioned everything that is important.
Thanks a lot for your help,
Patrick