Windows Setup log

[alb2001]

Hi

After building an image adding your own drivers and apps, how can you check the install log on the machine to see what succeded and what failed? If a driver failed to install or if an app or component you added failed to install, or any step on the installation didn't perform as you expected.

Thank you

 

[garlin]

Windows installation logs are saved under:

C:\Windows\Panther​

C:\Windows\Panther\UnattendGC​

If your app installer or script creates output text, then you can append ">> C:\logs.txt" to the end of every Post-Setup command line.

 

[alb2001]

Do you know their specific file names? I found the list below. Is that all I need? Where does it report errors? I have done a quick look on the setupapi.*.log files, as those seem to be the ones that have driver info. It seems a driver wasn't installed but seems it was recognized during Windows installer bootup. I need to review those tomorrow more carefully as its too late in here.

Deployment Troubleshooting and Log Files

Deployment Troubleshooting and Log Files

learn.microsoft.com

There's no special app of any sort. Just drivers from the official manufacturer

Thank you.

 

[garlin]

Most of the event logs are written in Setupact.log or Setuperr.log.

Did you add a driver to boot.wim, but failed to add the same driver to install.wim? Each image has a separate copy of the drivers. Sometimes a driver is not boot-critical, and can be added later on a live system (ie. graphics, sound).

 

[alb2001]

No, I didn't add any driver to boot.wim as it seems its not neccesary, I only needed to add drivers to boot.win if its a disk controller driver or maybe network driver.

In these case all drivers are install.wim drivers.