Yes. I am still having the ntldr is missing after the initial reboot problem. I have HP workstations with the SATA drives that work but the IO controller is not the same on the IBM laptops as it is on the HP workstations. I have found some more clues.
The IBM T43 comes with a 82801FBM ICH6M IO controller. It supports both SATA and IDE drives. I pulled the drive and the drive is a ATA100 IDE drive by Hitachi. Not a SATA drive. If it were a SATA drive, the TXTSETUP.oem support would probably have fixed the problem. But it is not a SATA drive! When the system boots with the LINUX boot, a 82801FBM SATA AHCI Controller is being loaded which is wrong. A 82801FBM IDE controller needs to load. The onboard INTEL controller ICH6M supports multiple modes, (sata and ide and raid) I don't understand how to fix this problem. I am so frustrated with this. I wonder if there is a updated controller driver or similar for the LINUX part of the installation? Has anyone else on the support groups been able to assist? How many of these laptops do you have? Do you want to talk about this problem on the phone? my # is 678-579-6675 at work. Thanks > > From: "Mellmann, Sebastian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/06/21 Tue AM 06:21:17 EDT > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: IBM Thinkpad T43 > > Hi Steve, it's me again. > Do you still have the 'NTLDR missing' failure? > > I'm still having this problem and can't get any ideas why unattended > isn't working on this kind of laptop. > > I've realized that ISOLINUX detects a SATA drive (just scroll up after > booting with shift+page-up). > Maybe this is the problem and the scsi sub-system, which is used to get > access to the drive, is too old?! > On the other hand I'm not having any problems with installing windows xp > via unattended on dell workstations like optiplex gx280, which are using > SATA drives. > > > Thanks for your time. > > > > Sebastian Mellmann > Berlin, Germany > ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
