Re: Sucessful install but boot failure



Yes with no controller bios enabled you would need to copy the correct
manufacturer controller driver to the system partition but renamed to
ntbootdd.sys then use scsi syntax in place of multi in boot.ini


--

Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

"Julian Ratcliffe" wrote:
|
| The issue was resolved by making sure that the OPROM for the SCSI
| controller was executed when the install was booting from the CD.
| Windows was smart enough to continue with the install if it was not
| there but this led to an incosistency in accessing the disk when the OS
| tried to boot using the SCSI OPROM after the install.
|
| Julian Ratcliffe wrote:
| >
| > The driver is supported in the setup (LSI 53C1020 U320), I've also tried
| > adding an alternative driver via the F6 method. This is Windows Server
| > 2003 R2 x64 Enterprise Edition. I suspect something inthe MBR.


.



Relevant Pages

  • Re: Problems booting the install CD
    ... =>You don't say but in the install process it seems you don't get the ... =>message that the SCSI driver is being installed. ... Which controller do you have? ... Stranger things have .0. ...
    (Fedora)
  • Re: AIC-7899 controller
    ... I made sure All SCSI HD and controller were properly configured in Windows. ... I tried lots of controller drivers and it never worked. ... Pay close attention to the messages at the bottom of the screen when the setup begins and you will see a prompt instructing you to press F6 to install RAID/SCSI drivers. ...
    (microsoft.public.win2000.general)
  • Re: Windows Appears to Recognize a SATA Drive as an IDE Drive
    ... ACARD AEC-6710 PCE SCSI Controller ... NERO IMAGEDRIVE SCSI Controller ... that I could install. ... Promise Serial ATA Raid controller, that I aparently don't have, since I got ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.configuration_manage)
  • Re: Raid 0 X SCSI
    ... > When I installed XP-PRO on my current RAID 0, ... so I assume it will NOT work if I clone to a real SCSI drive ... and an extra few seconds for the controller to ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware)
  • Re: [SLE] Adaptec 39160 SCSI controller with SuSE9.0 Pro?
    ... > I've attempted to install SuSE 9.0 Pro ... > Atlas 10K II SCSI hard drives. ... that has an integrated 7896 dual channel SCSI controller on an Intel G440GX+ ... When I try to manually load the newer aic7xxx driver during install the system ...
    (SuSE)