This is a new one on me, as I've gone and changed the "computer" driver
(HAL) before on machines without this little problem.
I brought over someone's Win2K installation from an old P-200 system to one
of HP's Pavilion boxes. The Pavilion supports ACPI (after a BIOS update).
The target machine uses the Intel i810 chipset - this is trouble from the
start, I know.
Before moving the installation, I changed all the onboard drivers to
"standard" versions - standard IDE, standard USB, standard CPU to PCI
bridge, and so on. Then I Ghosted it and restored on to the hard drive on
the Pavilion (possible only with a hard drive bootable on a Pavilion -
another long story[1]) and it proceeded to redetect the Pavilion's hardware
successfully. I had to manually adjust the drivers for the onboard MPU401
and game port. Fine, the installation's moved successfully and the old HD's
wiped.
But the thing supports ACPI. On a non-HP box I've gone and changed HALs
from Standard PC to ACPI before, and usually it goes and redetects
everything and it's happy. On this box, the ACPI HAL loads OK, but returns
inaccessible_boot_device. This usually happens when I don't have the right
IDE driver or SCSI driver available. So, something seems to be stopping
this thing from loading the Intel i810 onboard IDE driver.
I tried this little hack, which works between machines that use the same
HAL, with the same result:
<http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314082>
Perhaps I need to add an extra driver file to accomodate the i810 onboard
IDE?
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