Windows IoT Core retail version won't boot.

Question

I have created a test version of Win IoT Core with my custom application and it all runs great when I create a test FFU. I am running the Redo-IoTCabSignature command and it seems to work. The Problem I have is I purchased an EV Code Signing and when I use New-IoTFFUImage ProductA retail I am prompted to put in the pin for the hardware key 160 times. It does eventually build and I can flash it to the SD card, but it never boots. Screen shows windows logo and then goes blank.

Answer 1

I would powershell into the device and start digging around. First, I would use the iotstartup command (don't remember which options) to find out if the application is installed. If it is, I would look at the wevtutil logs (again, can't remember options) to find out if and why the application is starting up and/or having problems.

For our FFU, we are not using the EV certificate. It is used during the build of our UWP application for signing that, but not used by the FFU. We let the FFU generation to self-sign the custom packages we build. At no part of my build process do I use our EV cert, as a matter of fact it is not even installed on the machine that does the FFU generation. I would consider not using an EV cert during the generation process at all.