Re: Install Problem at GUI Startup

I have removed the Adaptec board, depowered the SCSI drives and have
disconnected an IDE tape drive. Right now besides the motherboard I have one
HDD. the CDROM/DVD drive and a floppy. There is also one PCI Ethernet card
and a modem connected to the serial port. I checked the BIOS and the PnP
Operating system option was previously disabled and I left it that way.

I have redone the install from square one including repartioning the HDD.

The result is the same.

Any other ideas?

Dennis


"Charlie Russel - MVP" wrote:

Try removing the Adaptec from machine until setup completes. My guess is
that it is switching the Adaptec to be in front of the IDE for some reason
at this point. There's a whole discussion about boot up and HD controllers
on the older pages of my blog, but basically there are two different loading
mechanisms happening here. There is text mode setup, which sees HDs based on
some very primative drivers, and then Plug and Play that kicks in at the GUI
mode, and loads things there.

One thing you can try - turn OFF "Plug and Play OS" in your BIOS if it's on.

--
Charlie.
http://msmvps.com/xperts64


"denko" <denko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have an Adaptec SCSI 2940 UW controller and plan to use software RAID for
data on that array once I have have SBS installed. The system is being
installed on a 60 GB IDE HDD (20GB partioned for system and the balance
currentlyunpartioned.


"cjobes" wrote:

Do you have a hardware RAID controller? Did you download the newest
drivers
and select F6 during the initial setup or do you use the Windows drivers?

Claus

"denko" <denko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am trying to do a clean install of Win SBS 2003. My server is set to
boot
first from the CDROM then HDD-0. The text install works fine (its
formats
the HDD and loads the necessary files to the HDD). The problem is that
when
the install goes to switch to the GUI screen, the server tries to
reboot
from
the HDD and I get the message "NTLDR is missing" with instruction to
reboot.
I cannot get past this point.

Any help would be sincerely appreciated.


Dennis




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