Chad Harris

John--

My statement was:

"Once you have installed Vista, that loading bar means the kernel has
loaded among
other things." Vista contains Ntoskrnl.exe located in C:\Windows\System32.

CH


"John Barnes" <jbarnes@email.net> wrote in message
news:OZ5v1$11HHA.2064@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Vista doesn't load the kernel. Vista has a new procedure where it lays
> down a clean IMAGE of the entire system. You don't say if you are doing
> an upgrade from another system or a custom install of a full version and
> whether you are trying x86 or x64. When you say freeze, are you getting
> anxious or how do you know it is frozen? Vista takes a lot longer to
> install than XP and maybe you aren't letting it proceed before you assume
> it is frozen. Upgrades can take hours. Custom installs can take up to an
> hour + depending on the speed of the processor and memory.
>
> "Tom VL" <TomVL@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:242210DA-3F69-49DB-822A-C35E9FF60897@microsoft.com...
>> Hello again,
>>
>> Indeed the setup tells me it has to reboot a couple of times.
>> Then everything happens again, as in the freezing happens again.
>> The setup does not start over again.
>>
>> Basically it restarts my pc.
>> It gets to the part where it loads in the kernel. Freeze, I reset
>> This time it will either; freeze when it's loading the kernel or freeze
>> when
>> it says "Please wait while windows is loading for the first time". I
>> reset,
>> again.
>> Then it takes me beyond the "Please wait while windows is loading for the
>> first time" screen again it takes me into Vista, where it tells me the
>> installation failed and that I should reinstall Vista.
>>
>> I had no error screens popping up so everything should be alright. I
>> think
>> it's because of the freezing and resetting that the installation get's
>> screwed up?
>>
>> If this is still unclear, I could try to record it with my digital camera
>> and post a link.
>>
>> Thanks again,
>> Tom
>