In certain cases, our product might need to be reverted back to the ‘factory’ image of Easy Installer after it has been loaded with WE7. I ran into an issue where the Autorun fails to work only when using Easy Installer to load an Easy Installer image. Once I have Easy Installer back on the UUT, plugging in my WEC7 USB key autoruns successfully.
Here are my basic steps, with the UUT already loaded with a WinCE image.
- Enter bootloader commands
bootfrom usbandreboot - On other PC, start windows-recovery.bat under Apalis-iMX6_1.6 so it loads up on the UUT USB console port.
- Plug in USB to USB host port that contains the same Apalis-iMX6_1.6 image with json autorun set to true.
- FAIL: Autorun does not execute, need to manually select the image and click Install.
The image is still loaded successfully, but in our test flow we will not have a VGA or Keyboard/Mouse attached to the UUT’s so the operator will not be able to run this manually. My question is, how can I force this to autorun? Is it because I’m trying to use the same image in step 2 and 3?
*Note, I did try using Apalis-iMX6_1.7 for step 2 instead to see if a different version (1.6 and 1.7) would work but no luck.
**We configure the WEC7 image it to a point where certain actions can no longer be performed that might need to be retested. Hence the need to revert back to the starting image.