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Dulf

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May 9, 2007 3:33 AM

Unattended Setup of Windows Server 2003 BlueScreen 0x0000007B

Hi,

I want to do unattended setup of my guest OS, using the same procedure as I use for physical (HP) servers.

In my Unattend.txt i must specify:

Unattended Setup of Windows Server 2003 BlueScreen 0x0000007B\[Unattended]

OemPreinstall=Yes[/i]

to allow me to use OEM SCSI drivers for HP machines.

Now i can't get the unattended setup to recognise the "LSI Logic PCI-X Ultra320 SCSI Host Adapter" (PCI\VEN_1000&DEV_0030) during setup and after the message "Setup is starting windows" i get a inaccessible boot device BSOD: 0x0000007B.

I tried several drivers, and tried to force setup to use the onboard drivers by specifying:

Unattended Setup of Windows Server 2003 BlueScreen 0x0000007B"LSI Logic PCI Fibre Channel/LSI Logic PCI-X Ultra320 SCSI Host Adapter"=RETAIL[/i]

in my unattend.txt

None of these tricks work, i'm at a loss as to what to try next....

Please help?

sbeaver

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1. May 9, 2007 4:47 AM

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Re: Unattended Setup of Windows Server 2003 BlueScreen 0x0000007B

Dont pick a scsi driver and let windows sort it out itself. The real drivers you need are in the VMware tools

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2. May 9, 2007 4:59 AM

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Re: Unattended Setup of Windows Server 2003 BlueScreen 0x0000007B

I'd love to... how?

I MUST use OEMPreinstall=YES because this same unattend.txt is used for HP machines that do need an OEM driver.

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3. May 9, 2007 5:01 AM

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Re: Unattended Setup of Windows Server 2003 BlueScreen 0x0000007B

PS: the driver that is supplied by VMWare tools is the buslogic driver for windows 2000 as far as I can tell. I use LSI Logic and a Windows 2003 Server setup.

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4. May 9, 2007 5:29 AM

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Re: Unattended Setup of Windows Server 2003 BlueScreen 0x0000007B

You are going to need another unattended.txt file for the VM's. The VM's are not OEM boxes.

I think you will find that most people do not build VM's this way. You create a golden image that has everything you use as a base and clone those to create VM's. This is going to save you alot of time in the long run

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5. May 9, 2007 5:38 AM

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Re: Unattended Setup of Windows Server 2003 BlueScreen 0x0000007B

I appreciate your help, I understand what i'm getting myself into, but i'd really like for this to work with just 1 unattend.txt file.

Is it really impossible? or just not very easy/nice?

should i use a seperate unattend file, is setting OEMpreinstall=NO enough?

do I need to get rid of the entire section \[MassStorageDevices]?

I am building this in altiris, and I noticed that Altiris uses seperate unattend.txt as well, but even with the out-of-the-box altiris job "Deploy Virtual Machine" doesn't work...

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6. May 9, 2007 6:43 AM

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Re: Unattended Setup of Windows Server 2003 BlueScreen 0x0000007B

If you are using Altiris then create a golen image VM that is fully loaded and let Altiris use this image to clone off of

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7. May 9, 2007 7:59 AM

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Re: Unattended Setup of Windows Server 2003 BlueScreen 0x0000007B

I found the problem... (shame shame):

In the \[Unattended] section I changed

DisableVirtualOemDevices=Yes

to

DisableVirtualOemDevices=No

This in itself had no effect yet, but then i forced detection of a driver i found on the HP site:

HP ProLiant 64-Bit/133-MHz Ultra320 Adapter for Windows Server 2003 found here:

http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/download/22559.html?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN

When i added this driver to my unattend.txt and txtsetup.oem, the BSOD was gone.

I feel kinda silly no since i had already tried that driver, but not with the DisableVirtualOemDevices=No setting

I hope others reading this find it usefull, and i'd like to thank you for putting up with me.

Dulf

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