Hi, Matt Hyclak wrote:
>On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 11:19:39AM -0500, Matt Hyclak enlightened us: > >>Situation: Install starts, copies all files and on the first boot into >>Windows, the following error appears: >> >>NTLDR is missing >>Press any key to restart >> >> >>This only seems to be happening on Intel Motherboards, specifically the >>865GLC and the 915GAG. In VMware, the same setup/linux boot cd works >>perfectly, as it did on an older Dell machine I just re-imaged. >> >> >... >The 4.6 Linux boot disk seems to work fine. It's the 4.7pre from CVS that >does not. > >My guess is that the updated parted/format is not correctly setting up the >MBR in the latest CVS snapshot? > Just had similar problem - no start after first reboot, 4.7pre, but I could track it down to the following, may be this helps you, too: I think, the BIOS hadn't recognized the hard disk correctly, when booting e.g. with Knoppix "fdisk -l" showed me "partition not bound to cylinder endings" (or so, just translated from German). In BIOS I changed the setting from "Auto" to LBA mode for this disk - there was no newer BIOS available - AND I had to zero first sector(s) (be careful, all data lost!) with dd. Before this, the number of cylinders shown by fdisk was 240, then 255. After that the install run as usual (thanks to all the developers and contributors of Unattended, of course) and really quick on a P4 3GHz. Falko -- Falko Trojahn fon +49-341-3581294 Dipl.-Ingenieur Netzwerke/Support fax +49-341-3581295 SMI Softmark Informationstechnologien GmbH www.smi-softmark.de ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
