Re: [Unattended] Datentragerfehler ??
Hi all, I'm new to unattended, and have got quite a long way. I booted from PXE, went through all the partitioning hassle to create a 2GB FAT partition without trashing the rest of the drive, answered all the questions to set up unattend.txt, watched it copy all the installation files from the server, and rebooted. I allowed unattended to replace the MBR. On rebooting it just says Datentragerfehler and then press any key to restart in German. I thought this might have something to do with whatever replaced the MBR, so I used a linux rescue disk to reinstall grub2 and created a menu entry for /dev/sda1 using chainloader +1. Now the grub2 menu comes up on reboot but selecting that entry results in exactly the same error, so I now think the problem must be with ntldr or ntdetect (since the only files on the root of the partition are ntdetect.com, ntldr and boot.ini). I've read everything I can find on google, but I don't think I've seen anything quite like this. One message[1] details the same error message, but seemed to have a problem setting up the 2GB partition, which I haven't (it mounts perfectly under Linux, and everything is present and correct if only it could boot). Another one[2] talks about disk geometry and SATA drives, and might be related to my problem, but I don't understand enough of it. Is there something I need to install on the partition, or something I need to tell grub2, to make the ntldr/ntdetect understand its disk environment? Grateful for any hints, Chris [1]http://www.mail-archive.com/unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net/msg07370.html [2]http://www.mail-archive.com/unattended-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg01525.html -- For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 ___ unattended-info mailing list unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info Hi Chris! I'm not sure but does anything on your disk, where you suppose to install windows (also which windows)? What grub does on target disk? I'm always install XP using only one clean(!) disk as a target, prepared using this Linux command: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/target disk bs=512 count=1000 Boot from PXE prepare a new MBR and partitions, and I'm not sure but installation partition is 4G, not 2G. Using disk with already installed something, I think is impossible (in real I'm using OEM installation disk which installer supports only a clean disk, may be some win9x or DOS, but no Linux, no grub ...) Regards tovis -- For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 ___ unattended-info mailing list unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] Datentragerfehler ??
On Sat, 2012-04-14 at 12:22 +0200, tovis wrote: Hi Chris! I'm not sure but does anything on your disk, where you suppose to install windows (also which windows)? What grub does on target disk? I'm always install XP using only one clean(!) disk as a target, prepared using this Linux command: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/target disk bs=512 count=1000 Boot from PXE prepare a new MBR and partitions, and I'm not sure but installation partition is 4G, not 2G. Using disk with already installed something, I think is impossible (in real I'm using OEM installation disk which installer supports only a clean disk, may be some win9x or DOS, but no Linux, no grub ...) Hmmm. The unattended step-by-step guide[1] says this: Whether you pick an automated scheme or partition by hand, you need to make sure that the C: drive is an active 2G FAT partition. The automatic choices do this by first creating the NTFS partitions, then deleting the first one and replacing it with a 2G FAT partition, then activating it. (If you choose to partition by hand, you will need to perform this procedure by hand.) If any actual changes are made to the partition table, the script will reboot the machine so that 2G FAT partition will become the C: drive, which is where Windows will be installed. During OS installation, Windows Setup will convert the FAT partition to NTFS and expand it as far as possible without clobbering other partitions. So I don't think it matters what is on the rest of the disk, as long as the first partition (hda1 or sda1) is prepared correctly. I am also pretty certain that the first part of unattended (copying over the installation files) fails if the partition is not correctly prepared. I had this problem earlier in the process, before I noticed that I had created an NTFS partition on sda1 instead of a FAT partition. So, having got past that, I'm pretty confident that the partition is correct. But it is a SATA drive (Maxtor 160GB) and I think there is something I need to add to the boot sequence to make sure that it can boot correctly. I am at the limit of my knowledge here though, so I'm not really sure what to do. Thanks for the reply - very grateful for any other comments or ideas. I'm trying to install WinXP, by the way. Regards, Chris -- [1]http://unattended.sourceforge.net/step-by-step.php -- For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 ___ unattended-info mailing list unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] Datentragerfehler error
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:38:19 +0100 Sebastian Mellmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought it was clear what I wrote last time. I'll repeat it: DONT USE NLITE! Only to say that I finally got it working. I used Windows XP with SP3(beta) and ie7 modified with nlite. What worked: Every reg tweaks I made with nlite. Drivers found in i386/$oem/$1. What didn't: All the RunOnceEx stuff. I was logged as Administrator. I don't know what caused that error message. I think it's an hardware issue; my hard disk has serious problems when touching the partition table. Anyway, this is what I did: - I created the partition with cfdisk (4GB, FAT32 lba type:0C) - Filesystem: mkdosfs -F 32 -n WindowsXP -s 1 -S 4096 /dev/hda1 (I think that -s 1 and -S 4096 are useless) - dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1 bs=512 count=1 (man cfdisk - DOS 6.x WARNING) - Rebooted with pxe, at the end unattended dropped me to a shell with an error (can't remember). - In this shell I launched parted and I saw that there was no filesystem in the fat32 partition, so I recreated it with: rm 1 mkpartfs primary fat32 0 4000 set 1 boot on set 1 lba on - Another reboot, I choosed not to touch the partition table and the MBR. Everything was fine. Hope it helps, Mattia. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ unattended-info mailing list unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] Datentragerfehler error
I thought it was clear what I wrote last time. I'll repeat it: DONT USE NLITE! nLite alters the windows xp source files in any way so it's NOT possible to do an unattended install anymore. Sebastian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mattia Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 12:45 PM To: unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Unattended] Datentragerfehler error Hi all, I got this error after the first reboot using nt5x-install. Datentragerfehler and something else like Press a key to continue. I'm trying to install windows xp, english version, modified with nlite. What could be? Mattia. -- --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ unattended-info mailing list unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.20.4/1275 - Release Date: 12.02.2008 15:20 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.20.4/1275 - Release Date: 12.02.2008 15:20 - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ unattended-info mailing list unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
