Boot issuses

[Guest]

I'm currently trying to install windows 2000 on to a hard disc which is attached to my PCI RAID IDE controller (EIO ATA133 Raid) as I plan to move totally to this controller if a few weeks due to the onboard controller not being about to handle above udma33. However once the inital setup is complete (I press f6 during install and load drivers and install to the hard disc without problems) I get this error when it trys to boot
"Windows 2000 could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem
Could not read from selected boot disc. Check boot path and disk hardware.

Currently the boot.ini is still stored on the hard disc which is on the onboard controller so it seems that theres a problem between windows and my pci controller which stops me completing setup
For your information my boot.ini is as follow
"[boot loader
timeout=
default=signature(df0ce15c)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINN
[operating systems
signature(df0ce15c)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server" /fastdetec
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server" /fastdetect

The bottom one is the system I'm currently posting this from and the top one being the one which wont boot
Does anyone know what could be causing this

-Also I can access the hard disc on the PCI controller fine from within windows and I can see that its copyed across the inital setup files fin

Thanks

 

[Jerold Schulman]

I'm currently trying to install windows 2000 on to a hard disc which is attached to my PCI RAID IDE controller (EIO ATA133 Raid) as I plan to move totally to this controller if a few weeks due to the onboard controller not being about to handle above udma33. However once the inital setup is complete (I press f6 during install and load drivers and install to the hard disc without problems) I get this error when it trys to boot.
"Windows 2000 could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem.
Could not read from selected boot disc. Check boot path and disk hardware."

Currently the boot.ini is still stored on the hard disc which is on the onboard controller so it seems that theres a problem between windows and my pci controller which stops me completing setup.
For your information my boot.ini is as follows
"[boot loader]
timeout=1
default=signature(df0ce15c)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
signature(df0ce15c)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server" /fastdetect"

The bottom one is the system I'm currently posting this from and the top one being the one which wont boot.
Does anyone know what could be causing this?

-Also I can access the hard disc on the PCI controller fine from within windows and I can see that its copyed across the inital setup files fine

Thanks,

You might try installing the disk1 installation from a Slipstrteam that contains
SP4.

See tip 2529 in the 'Tips & Tricks' at http://www.jsiinc.com
Also, make sure your disk0 install is running SP4 first.




Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com

 

[Guest]

Thanks I'll give that a go now

----- Jerold Schulman wrote: ----


You might try installing the disk1 installation from a Slipstrteam that contain
SP4

See tip 2529 in the 'Tips & Tricks' at http://www.jsiinc.co
Also, make sure your disk0 install is running SP4 first




Jerold Schulma
Windows: General MV
JSI, Inc
http://www.jsiinc.co

 

[Guest]

ok I dont have time to download and slipstream SP4 at the moment but I do have some evaluation versions of 2003 server around which I guess should have any fixs 2000 sp4 would have? Anyway I installed it onto the system but it still gives the same error- Any other ideas
Thanks

----- Andrew wrote: ----

Thanks I'll give that a go now

----- Jerold Schulman wrote: ----


You might try installing the disk1 installation from a Slipstrteam that contain
SP4

See tip 2529 in the 'Tips & Tricks' at http://www.jsiinc.co
Also, make sure your disk0 install is running SP4 first




Jerold Schulma
Windows: General MV
JSI, Inc
http://www.jsiinc.co

 

[Rick]

If your boot/system partition is FAT/FAT32, just boot off a
Win98 floppy and manually extract/copy the updated SP4
ATAPI.SYS to your \winnt\system32\drivers folder. Rename
the existing one instead of deleting it, in case you need it again.

Rick

ok I dont have time to download and slipstream SP4 at the moment but I do have some evaluation versions of 2003 server around

which I guess should have any fixs 2000 sp4 would have? Anyway I installed it onto the system but it still gives the same error- Any
other ideas?