> > I am also getting the NTLDR not found message, once OS file have copied > > over to the machine, it reboots and nothing can be found. > > The Windows CD is copied over to the local harddisk, the system restarts, > > Windows setup starts (blue screen with yellow progress bar), the system > > restarts again, BAM! NTLDR not found.... > > The Board is an "ASUS M2V-MX SE" with a "VIA VT8237S" chipset > In this case it survives thru the first restart.. > So disk geometry must be right at the first restart. > Then, something is probably changing disk geometry in the 'active' partition. > On the second restart it is not right anymore.. Obviously ... :/
> Pay attention to what is written to the console at startup. It will tell you > what numbers of heads and sectors the legacy BIOS think the disk geometry > should be. "Legacy BIOS says 78 heads and 60 sectors." The hdd is a 160gb sata drive Some other output that seemed meaningful: "Loading sd_mod..." "Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods" "sd 0:0:0:0 [sda] 312581808 512-byte hardware sectors (160042 KB)" ... "Odd. C/H/S does not multiply out to 312581808" ... "* We have fix_disk_geo_heads (78), writing into /dev/dsk1" "* We have fix_disk_geo_sectors (60), writing into /dev/dsk1" ... > If you dont override the > fix_disk_geo_heads = > fix_disk_geo_sectors = > settings in unattend.txt the 'legacy BIOS' heads/sectors will be written into > the 'active' partition. I'm not overriding these. - jens ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ unattended-devel mailing list unattended-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
