I'd suggest it could be its own question and an option in the _meta, that way sysadmins can config it on or off if they know it just doesn't work on eg Dells but is needed on IBMs, as opposed to having to add the two lines it took me ages to find in the docs! ;-)
A registry page on the wiki could be in order too. Regards, Mark. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael De Groote Sent: 22 May 2008 10:29 To: Mark McRitchie Cc: unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Unattended] Unattended install woes -- first rebootgivesblinking cursor, hangs i suppose that some sort of BIOS/chipset DB should be used then? Since for some chipsets/BIOSes it works, for some it doesn't... maybe we should use a blacklisting-approach? Suppose it always works, except on X, and if it doesn't work on X, add X to the blacklist ? Michael On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Mark McRitchie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hiya, > > > > I found that adding the following to my [_meta] section worked (on 4.8RC4): > > fix_disk_geo_heads = "" > > fix_disk_geo_sectors = "" > > > > The fix for NTLDR Not Found seems to have its own issues..... > > > > Regards, > > Mark. > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric > Sent: 12 May 2008 20:24 > To: kevin > Cc: unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Unattended] Unattended install woes -- first reboot > givesblinking cursor, hangs > > > > Thank you for the suggestion. > > The section you described was included automatically, minus the "quotes" > around the zero. I tried including them, but as I suspected, this made no > difference. No luck! > > -Eric > > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 3:07 PM, kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It seems that I'm having the same issue as many others on the mailing-list. > Upon the first reboot after the Unattended / Windows installation copies the > installation files over from the Unattended server, I'm left with nothing > but a discouraging blinking cursor. I'm attempting an install of Windows > 2000 Server (vanilla) using Unattended (4.6 or 4.7). The entire Unattended > process works fine up until that point. > > > > Did you edit unattend.txt? > > Make sure that this section is in there: > > [Data] > AutoPartition=1 > MsDosInitiated="0" > UnattendedInstall=Yes > > I ran into at least something similar and adding that section back in got me > past the blinking cursor. > > kevin > > > > ________________________________ > Any views/opinions expressed in this email are that of the author and may > not reflect the views of BIS Industrial Services Ltd - www.bis-is.co.uk > > BIS Salamis (M&I) Ltd. Registered In Scotland: SC54207 > Registered Office: 4 Greenhole Place, Aberdeen, AB23 8EU > VAT No: 267 5548 21 > BIS Salamis Ltd. 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