> Hi all, > > I'm new to unattended, and have got quite a long way. I booted from PXE, went through all the partitioning hassle to create a 2GB FAT partition without trashing the rest of the drive, answered all the questions to set up unattend.txt, watched it copy all the installation files from the server, and rebooted. I allowed unattended to replace the MBR. > > On rebooting it just says > > Datentragerfehler > > and then "press any key to restart" in German. I thought this might have something to do with whatever replaced the MBR, so I used a linux rescue disk to reinstall grub2 and created a menu entry for /dev/sda1 using chainloader +1. Now the grub2 menu comes up on reboot but selecting that entry results in exactly the same error, so I now think the problem must be with ntldr or ntdetect (since the only files on the root of the partition are ntdetect.com, ntldr and boot.ini). > > I've read everything I can find on google, but I don't think I've seen anything quite like this. One message[1] details the same error message, but seemed to have a problem setting up the 2GB partition, which I haven't (it mounts perfectly under Linux, and everything is present and correct if only it could boot). Another one[2] talks about disk geometry and SATA drives, and might be related to my problem, but I don't understand enough of it. Is there something I need to install on the partition, or something I need to tell grub2, to make the ntldr/ntdetect understand its disk environment? > > Grateful for any hints, > > Chris > > [1]http://www.mail-archive.com/unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net/msg07370.html [2]http://www.mail-archive.com/unattended-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg01525.html > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. > Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. > Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 > _______________________________________________ > unattended-info mailing list > unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info > > Hi Chris! I'm not sure but does anything on your disk, where you suppose to install windows (also which windows)? What grub does on target disk? I'm always install XP using only one clean(!) disk as a target, prepared using this Linux command:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/"target disk" bs=512 count=1000 Boot from PXE prepare a new MBR and partitions, and I'm not sure but installation partition is 4G, not 2G. Using disk with already installed something, I think is impossible (in real I'm using OEM installation disk which installer supports only a clean disk, may be some win9x or DOS, but no Linux, no grub ...) Regards tovis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
