BIOS doesn't find boot record

[Luc Lecocq]

Hello,

I just made a fresh install of XP Pro SP1 on a new PC with a SCSI disk as
boot drive.
Everything went fine, until I removed the XP install CD from the CD drive.
Since that time, I got at boot time:
"Searching for Boot Record from SCSI..Not Found"

If I put back the Install CD in the CD drive, it boots fine, on the disk,
and works perfectly !!
But without CD, no way.

I tried to do a "fixmbr c:", an fdisk /MBR, no luck.
But the boot record is on the disk, I can see it with Partition Magic, see
below.
The SCSI controller is an old Diamond Fireport, that I used in another PC,
never had a problem to boot before.
The PC is an HP VL420 with latest BIOS, I went through all BIOS screen but
did not see anything I could change.

One thing I tried, that worked temporarily, was to reinstall XP over the 1st
install.
But after 2 or 3 reboot, the same problem went back.
I tried reinstalling a 3rd time, but it did not work.

Thanks for helping

============================================================================
PowerQuest PartitionInfo 8.0 -- Windows NT/2000 Version
Date Generated: 11/07/04 15:00:22
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General System Information:
Total Physical Memory (bytes): 267,894,784
Used Physical Memory: (bytes): 161,738,752
Maximum Page File Size: (bytes): 648,396,800
Current Page File Size: (bytes): 122,138,624



============================================================================
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Disk Geometry Information for Disk 1: 1106 Cylinders, 255 Heads, 63
Sectors/Track
System PartSect # Boot BCyl Head Sect FS ECyl Head Sect
StartSect NumSects
============================================================================
===============================
0 0 80 0 1 1 07 521 254 63
63 8,385,867
0 1 00 522 0 1 05 527 254 63
8,385,930 96,390
PM8 8,385,930 0 00 522 1 1 0B 527 254 63
8,385,993 96,327

============================================================================
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Disk Geometry Information for Disk 2: 261375 Cylinders, 4 Heads, 17
Sectors/Track
System PartSect # Boot BCyl Head Sect FS ECyl Head Sect
StartSect NumSects
============================================================================
===============================
0 0 00 0 1 1 07 1023 3 17
17 17,771,443
Info: End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Actual values are:
0 0 00 0 1 1 07 261344 3 17 17 17771443



============================================================================
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Partition Information for Disk 1: 8,675.7 Megabytes
Volume PartType Status Size MB PartSect # StartSect
TotalSects
============================================================================
===============================
C: NTFS Pri,Boot 4,094.7 0 0 63
8,385,867
Extended Pri 47.1 0 1 8,385,930
96,390
EPBR Log 47.1 None -- 8,385,930
96,390
GM8 FAT32 Log 47.0 8,385,930 0 8,385,993
96,327
Unallocated Pri 4,534.0 None -- 8,482,320
9,285,570


============================================================================
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Partition Information for Disk 2: 8,678.5 Megabytes
Volume PartType Status Size MB PartSect # StartSect
TotalSects
============================================================================
===============================
E: NTFS Pri 8,677.5 0 0 17
17,771,443
Unallocated Pri 1.0 None -- 17,771,460
2,040


============================================================================
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Boot Record for drive C: (Drive: 1, Starting sector: 63, Type: NTFS)
============================================================================
===============================
1. Jump: EB 52 90
2. OEM Name: NTFS
3. Bytes per Sector: 512
4. Sectors per Cluster: 8
5. Reserved Sectors: 0
6. Number of FATs: 0
7. Root Dir Entries: 0
8. Total Sectors: 0
9. Media Descriptor: 0xF8
10. Sectors per FAT: 0
11. Sectors per Track: 63 (0x3F)
12. Number of Heads: 255 (0xFF)
13. Hidden Sectors: 63 (0x3F)
14. Total Sectors (>32MB): 0 (0x0)
15. Unused: 0x80008000
16. Total NTFS Sectors: 8385866
17. MFT Start Cluster: 786432
18. MFT Mirror Start Clust: 524149
19. Clusters per FRS: 246
20. Clusters per Index Blk: 1
21. Serial Number: 0x70B85CA2B85C689C
22. Checksum: 0 (0x0)
23. Boot Signature: 0xAA55

============================================================================
===============================
Boot Record for drive G: (Drive: 1, Starting sector: 8,385,993, Type:
FAT32)
============================================================================
===============================
1. Jump: EB 58 90
2. OEM Name: MSWIN4.1
3. Bytes per Sector: 512
4. Sectors per Cluster: 1
5. Reserved Sectors: 36
6. Number of FAT's: 2
7. Reserved: 0x0000
8. Reserved: 0x0000
9. Media Descriptor: 0xF8
10. Sectors per FAT: 0
11. Sectors per Track: 63 (0x3F)
12. Number of Heads: 255 (0xFF)
13. Hidden Sectors: 63 (0x3F)
14. Big Total Sectors: 96327 (0x17847)
15. Big Sectors per FAT: 742
16. Extended Flags: 0x0000
17. FS Version: 0
18. First Cluster of Root: 2 (0x2)
19. FS Info Sector: 1
20. Backup Boot Sector: 6
21. Reserved: 000000000000000000000000
22. Drive ID: 0x80
23. Reserved for NT: 0x00
24. Extended Boot Sig: 0x29
25. Serial Number: 0x418E1EED
26. Volume Name: PM8
27. File System Type: FAT32
28. Boot Signature: 0xAA55

============================================================================
===============================
Boot Record for drive E: (Drive: 2, Starting sector: 17, Type: NTFS)
============================================================================
===============================
1. Jump: EB 52 90
2. OEM Name: NTFS
3. Bytes per Sector: 512
4. Sectors per Cluster: 8
5. Reserved Sectors: 0
6. Number of FATs: 0
7. Root Dir Entries: 0
8. Total Sectors: 0
9. Media Descriptor: 0xF8
10. Sectors per FAT: 0
11. Sectors per Track: 17 (0x11)
12. Number of Heads: 4 (0x4)
13. Hidden Sectors: 17 (0x11)
14. Total Sectors (>32MB): 0 (0x0)
15. Unused: 0x80008000
16. Total NTFS Sectors: 17771442
17. MFT Start Cluster: 786432
18. MFT Mirror Start Clust: 1110715
19. Clusters per FRS: 246
20. Clusters per Index Blk: 1
21. Serial Number: 0xC8689B83689B6F46
22. Checksum: 0 (0x0)
23. Boot Signature: 0xAA55

 

[joust in jest]

Did you set your BIOS to boot from SCSI disk?

 

[Luc Lecocq]

The boot sequence is currently: Floppy, SCSI, CDROM
I tried SCSI first, or last, same thing.

I even wonder if this BIOS support to boot from SCSI, apparently it does
since I have the option to choose it, but ...