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Unable to Find NTOSKRNL.EXE

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Description

This error message usually indicates that your system does not include a kernel, or that the boot drive contains one or more driver versions that are not the correct version for your run-time image.

Resolution

  1. Be sure that you copied Boot.ini, Ntdetect.com, and Ntldr from your run-time image to the root directory of your target system's boot drive, and that you overwrote prior versions of these files.
  2. Be sure that you added a kernel to your configuration. Examples of kernel components include Ntoskrnl.exe, Ntkrnlmp.exe, and Ntkrnlpa.exe.

See Also

Run-Time Image Error Messages

Last updated on Wednesday, October 18, 2006

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