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I have gotten this message five times or more in the past few months and frankly, I'm a little pissed. Seeing as I have not messed with the loader's directory AT ALL, I don't see why this message keeps occurring. I know there are other threads for this problem, and I have posted in them here.
PXE-No Configuration file present. In OS Deployer • 3 years ago. Then i get Acronis Loader: No configuration file present. I have uploaded the configuration components, created a PE boot environment and uploaded that as well. Option 66 and 67 have been configured. No other PXE exist on the network. Starting Acronis Loader. Acronis Loader: No configuration file present. Next I tried to boot from the TI disk and got as far as 'continue to boot.
I want to know why this keeps happening! Acronis OSS is one of the main reasons I bought DD. Now I'm stuck with disk management software that has been striped of it's features and a boot loader that constantly spazzes out on me. I'm one hiccup away from attempting to get my money back and just using GRUB2!
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Have you made sure that all of the OSS files (those in the BOOTWIZ folder and the bootwiz.sys file) are excluded from any defrag program? I don't think that causes this error, but it wouldn't hurt to check.
Are there any drive changes between when it works and when it doesn't? For example, removing a drive (USB, eSATA, etc.) or connecting a drive. This includes any media readers.
Does the problem happen only on warm boots (or reboots) or does it also happen on cold boots (powered off/shutdown)?
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I had that same issue this morning, and I don't know what triggered it. I had to repair the mbr with my Win7 installation disk, then could boot back successfully into my Win7, started the OOS-selector from there and reinstalled it. It asked if I would like to repair, which I okay-ed.
So now, in addition to my normal boot-options (Win7, Vista and Linux) I find some strange rogue entries in the start screen of OOS, which I don't dare to touch atm, but would like to get rid of.
By the way, I was a bit dismayed when I noticed that my bootable Acronis-CDs would not offer any OOS-repair function. I remember faintly, in one of the previous versions, that I could repair OOS with a bootable media of Acronis. What did I miss here?
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Cheers,
Anestis
Cheers,
Anestis
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Anestis,
What are the rogue entries? Were they added at the time of the repair? If you don't want to delete them, you should be able to hide them. That way, they won't be cluttering up the menu.
You didn't miss finding the OSS CD programs -- they don't exist. This is a major problem to may users (including myself) and we are hoping it will be fixed in the first update to DD 11.
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Those entries showed up after repair, yes. They are like '$~Vista english' or so (cannot check at the moment), and in their preferences/files I see that they want to grasp files of my valid OS-es!!
I would like simply to delete them (without deleting the system-files they point to), but I dont dare. Hiding them will help my aesthetical demands, true, but my geek within wants to get rid of them :)
Anestis
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When I booted back into my Win7 after repair, I missed some links that I had put on my desktop. Some research via google suggested that there might have been some windows task that cleansed my OS from links that it did not consider essential.
And: I find a fresh oos-selector-link in my root-directory C: with today's creation-time. So I guess it must have been created during repair?
So my question here is, could - theoretically - some windows task have fuzzed around with links that are vital to OOS to boot properly? Just an idea here ...
Anestis
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The OSS repair shouldn't have deleted any desktop shortcuts.
You can try deleting the rogue OSS menu entries. It should work okay to remove them. Just keep in mind that OSS may redetect them after deletion. I would also recommend that you make a backup copy of the BOOTWIZ.OSS file first (instructions can be found here).
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MudCrab, what I meant was: could it be that *before* I had that error the original poster mentioned (OSS not finding configuration files), some windows task could have deleted links/files (for example deleting that oos-selector-link in the root directory) - which then in its turn caused OOS not to find its necessary paths?
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It's definately possible something like that could have happened.
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Greetings,
Dual boot winxp and linux (slackware)
DD 10.
Dual boot winxp and linux (slackware)
DD 10.
I disabled OS selector while in windows before a defrag.
OS selector stated that windows was my primary os, so I thought it would be ok.
I do not have a backup disk.
when I reboot i get the message 'Acronis Loader: No Configuration File Present' press enter to reboot.
OS selector stated that windows was my primary os, so I thought it would be ok.
I do not have a backup disk.
when I reboot i get the message 'Acronis Loader: No Configuration File Present' press enter to reboot.
if I use F8 I get the selection of drives, but only my linux drive will load.
If I select the drive with windows I get the same message 'Acronis Loader: No Configuration File Present' press enter to reboot.
If I select the drive with windows I get the same message 'Acronis Loader: No Configuration File Present' press enter to reboot.
I have downloaded the .iso image for DD 10 but my options are limited.
If I can just get access to the os selector program I can enable it again.
Last time I ran defrag all I had to do was disable then enable it again and it worked fine when i rebooted.
Thank you in advance for any help.
Bill
Bill
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The downloaded ISO doesn't include the OSS programs. You would need to create one with DD in Windows and include them.
Otherwise, you can reset the MBR and boot into Windows where you can reactivte OSS. To do this, make sure the XP partition is Active and then boot to the XP CD, enter the Recovery Console, and run fixmbr command. Once booted back into Windows you can reactivate OSS.
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The XP .iso I have only let me 'reinstall'. Which I did saving all my files.
After install the system boots directly to XP.
the Acronis folder is still available, but I haven't set it up yet. Am going to create a rescue disc before I reboot the system.
This whole experience has been a wake up call for me to ensure that I create rescue discs.
Will post my results later.
Thank You for your time.
Bill
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You should definately make a new DD CD that includes the OSS programs before you do anything else.
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