On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 09:18:32AM -0400, Chris Liles wrote: > Ok, so I don't know that much about MBRs/BPBs but from looking at the > problem, something is missing/wrong with the MBR/BPB because the system will > not boot from the hard drive. > > Can anyone please tell me what type of MBR and BPB unattended writes to the > hard drive? > After mounting the drive after unattended runs, all the files are present for > a winxp bootloader, but when I write one to the disk I get the "NTLDR Is > Missing" error message upon reboot, which is crazy because I can see the file > is there on the hard drive when I mount it. > > I googled NTLDR is Missing and tried to sys c: the drive with a dos disk and > then re-run unattended, but it didn't work. > > If someone can tell me what kind of MBR/BPB unattended writes then I think at > least that will be a starting point to look into. This is one of those nasty little quirks of loading an OS from a bootloader. Just because the bootloader knows where to look for a drive, it doesn't mean that it's going to find it. More specifically, just because a bootlaoder is ON A DRIVE, that doesn't mean that it can see the drive that it's on. Silly, I know.
Since you've already verified that the filesystem is intact, and that the necessary files are there, the issue is that the bootloader can't find the drive that it's looking for. With a regular IDE drive this would usually happen if you were trying to boot Windows from an extended partition. In your case, it's probably just that the bootloader can't identify that a drive exists. You may also want to check the boot.ini on that partition (if there is one). -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
