BOOT_DEVICE_INACCESSABLE

[Peter]

Hey all...I have a SCSI problem.

I have a win2k install on a machine that had the motherboard fail.
The system was SCSI with onboard Adaptec 78xx series chipset. The
motherboard was RMA'ed but the SCSI chipset has been updated to a
Adaptec 7902 controller...thus the system gives me a BSoD with
"BOOT_DEVICE_INACCESSABLE".

I see that the procedure for upgrading a SCSI controller all involve
having the old card to boot off of...this is not an option.

What I have done in installed an IDE HDD with a fresh copy of W2K and
loaded the new adaptec driver on there. Now I boot off the IDE drive
and can see the SCSI drive.

My question is what is the trick now to get the SCSI drive to be able
to boot on its own? I've seen reference to NTBOOTDD.SYS...i have
tried copying the SCSI driver to c:\ntbootdd.sys but nothing changed.

Help is much appreciated. It is important that I try to preserve the
SCSI installs settings as much as possible.

thanks.

 

[Dave Patrick]

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<snip>
| I've seen reference to NTBOOTDD.SYS...i have
| tried copying the SCSI driver to c:\ntbootdd.sys but nothing changed.
<snip>

In order for that to work you'll want to change the arc path in boot.ini
from multi syntax to scsi syntax to indicate that Windows 2000 will load a
boot device driver and use that driver to access the boot partition. Then
also copy the manufacturer scsi driver to the floppy but renamed to
ntbootdd.sys

Something like this below;

[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\winnt
[operating systems]
scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\winnt="Windows NT 0,1"
scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\winnt="Windows NT 0,2"
scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\winnt="Windows NT 1,1"
scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(2)\winnt="Windows NT 1,2"