Debugging Tools for Windows

Bug Check 0xF8: RAMDISK_BOOT_INITIALIZATION_FAILED

The RAMDISK_BOOT_INITIALIZATION_FAILED bug check has a value of 0x000000F8. This indicates that an initialization failure occurred while attempting to boot from the RAM disk.

Parameters

The following parameters are displayed on the blue screen.

Parameter Description
1 Indicates the cause of the failure.

1: No LoaderXIPRom descriptor was found in the loader memory list.

2: Unable to open the RAM disk driver (ramdisk.sys or \Device\Ramdisk).

3: FSCTL_CREATE_RAM_DISK failed.

4: Unable to create GUID string from binary GUID.

5: Unable to create symbolic link pointing to the RAM disk device.

2 NTSTATUS code
3 0
4 0

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