Hi devs, had a similar problem last week with a "Dell GX620", and have it with several machines with Asus P4P800 and Samsung SATA drive.
>>I don't know about it being a kernel problem, I tried with 2 different >>kernels on an IBM X60 and still it never worked :( Here's my story: Any now and then, with different machines, we got a "NTLDR missing" or - after second reboot, when the XP setup says "39 minutes left" - an error "Schwerwiegender Fehler" and problems with "rsaenh.dll" and "dsaenh.dll" (if I remember correctly) in the c:\windows\setuperr.log. Sometimes we managed to get it done solely with booting/partitioning a second time, sometimes not. With the Dell GX620 I tried to manage it with the newer parted 1.7.1 and/or the following: >>>(see mail from Christian Fischer 07.02.2006 on unattended-info) >>> >>>I use dd with its notrunc option to modify this "files". >>> >>>eg. echo -e -n "\xff" |dd of=/dev/sda1 bs=1 seek=26 conv=notrunc >>>eg. echo -e -n "\xff" |dd of=/mnt/sda1/\$win_nt\$.~bt/bootsect.dat \ >>>bs=1 seek=26 conv=notrunc but without success. In this situation I recognised that I cannot mount the second partition (D:) after rebooting - e. g. with linuxboot or Knoppix - nevertheless the first partition (C:) was ok. Then I succeeded with the following: - set SATA mode in BIOS to "combined" - dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda count=200 - reboot - installation works as normal After that I - even if I've set the SATA mode in BIOS back to normal - installation works like it should!! I think the problem has to do with the recognition of the geometry during the linux boot process - it seems to relate to the way the disk has been partitioned _before_ we boot the first time with unattended linuxboot. With the Asus P4P800 - different machines - no success at all up to now, I get every time the "NTLDR missing". > > > we are currently working on this one, as we experienced the same > problem. It seems that > > CVS-Unattended + Kernel 2.6.16.18 + parte 1.6.9 (old version!) > > seems to work. We get an error about a deprecated function, but it seems > to work, though. Could you please provide a download location for the linuxboot.iso and changes to linuxaux to quickly try this out? Thanx a lot! Falko _______________________________________________ unattended-devel mailing list unattended-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
