Unattended Install Problem=Blue screen of Death

[caltex66]

Hi all,

We roll out servers for clients, that all use the same config, so to save myself time i am attempting to create an unattended installation script. The servers have 3 SCSI HDDs in a RAID 5 config using a Compaq 532 Smart Array card.

The installation runs all the way through to the first Win2k Server splash screen, then blue screens with:
INACCESABLE BOOT DEVICE error. Is this a problem with my unattend.txt file or the SCSI drivers? The reason i ask is because it picks up the HDDs during the text based install and copys the swap file and data files etc.

Any help would be really apreciated,

Thanks in advance.

 

[sovereign]

Can you Boot into Safe Mode?

 

[Catadmin]

Bad news, caltex66. The boot partition of Windows 2000 cannot (from what I remember) be on a RAID 5 partition/volume. It MUST be installed on a simple volume. So, basically, you can only have 2 HDDs as RAID 5 and the main HDD as a simple volume. If this is a hardware RAID 5 setup, then you'll need another drive to put this simple volume on.


Hope this helps. Catadmin - MCSA

 

[caltex66]

Thanks for your replys, Sovereign i will try booting up into safe mode and see what happens. Catadmin, you can definately have Win2k on a RAID 5 volume as i have run up up several servers with this config, and this server will work if i do a standard (not unattended) install.
Thanks again for your replys.

 

[ashpp]

Catadmin > You can't have a Windows 2000 software raid-5 volume on a boot drive. You can have whatever raid you want using hardware.

 

[ashpp]

sovereign > No he won't be able to boot into safe mode.

caltex66 > Possible solution

In the unattended file stick in explict entries for

[MassStorageDrivers]
[OEMBootFiles]

to the windows driver you need. OR download the latest drivers from the vendors website and use those. (If on HCL windows ones should work otherwise go for the vendors)

Ash.