Stop Message: The ACPI BIOS in this system is not fully ACPI compl

[Guest]

Ran across this originally in a Windows 2000 Professional installation. The
Microsoft Article has you pressing the F7 key (if a compliant BIOS is not
currently available) to disable this for setup at the time you would normally
press F6 to load additional storage drivers. This work fine, except I
actually also need to load a SCSI driver at this point in order to load the
O/S. Is there a workaround for this?

 

[anon]

what about integrating the SCSI driver into a build CD?
this is fairly easy & relatively quick.

 

[Guest]

That's what I was toying with tonight, although I've never tried the SCSI
driver for booting. I'm going to play with it some, but any tips on where
the driver goes into this (or how)?

 

[anon]

edit txtsetup.sif. There are 4 sections where you'll need
to add the driver.

[SourceDiskFiles] -- make the entry the same as another
driver like cpqarray.sys
[HardwareIdsDatabase]
[SCSI.Load]
[SCSI]

just make them like existing entries but you pull the
contents from your driver's txtsetup.oem file. Then toss
the .sys into \i386.

you then have create an $OEM$\$1\DRIVERS directory off the
root of your CD and put the driver, its cab & inf files,
etc. in there.

then create a basic winnt.sif file that goes in \i386.

it should have at a minimum this added to the [Unattended]
section of winnt.sif (beyond the mandatory [Data] stuff &
some other:

[Unattended]
OemPnPDriversPath="DRIVERS;"
OemPreinstall=Yes

look at the help for the support deployment tools for info
on this file and a tool for creating a basic one... ignore
the crap about a MassStorageDrivers (or something similar)
directive. It doesn't work very well, & you may find it
doesn't work at all with some drivers. I know it won't
with some SATA drivers. Do it the way i've outlined
above... i've been doing this since 2000 and added
countless drivers. If Dell or Compaq made it, i've added
their server adapters (along with updating existing ones
by adding the new hardware IDs & replacing the driver).

 

[Guest]

Great, I really appreciate it. I'll give it a run tomorrow.

 

[paulmd]

Ran across this originally in a Windows 2000 Professional installation. The
Microsoft Article has you pressing the F7 key (if a compliant BIOS is not
currently available) to disable this for setup at the time you would normally
press F6 to load additional storage drivers. This work fine, except I
actually also need to load a SCSI driver at this point in order to load the
O/S. Is there a workaround for this?

f7, then f6 while there's still time. f7 SILENTLY disables acpi. It
should work.

 

[frodo]

the F6 option allows you to select multiple items, one at a time; look
carefully and don't choose "done/continue" 'til you've added each item
that you need from the scrolling list.