Windows Driver Kit: Driver Development Tools
Bug Check 0xBB: NETWORK_BOOT_INITIALIZATION_FAILED
The NETWORK_BOOT_INITIALIZATION_FAILED bug check has a value of 0x000000BB. This indicates that Windows failed to successfully boot off a network.
Parameters
The following parameters are displayed on the blue screen.
| Parameter | Description |
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| 1 | The part of network initialization that failed. Possible values are:
1: Failure while updating the registry.
2: Failure while starting the network stack. Windows sends IOCTLs to the redirector and datagram receiver, then waits for the redirector to be ready. If it is not ready within a certain period of time, this error is issued.
3: Failure while sending the DHCP IOCTL to TCP. This is how Windows informs the transport of its IP address.
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| 2 | The failure status |
| 3 | Reserved |
| 4 | Reserved |
Cause
This error is caused when Windows is booting off a network, and a critical function fails during I/O initialization.