Reply to Message

View discussion in a popup

Replying to:
_the_dude_
Enthusiast
Enthusiast

Justin,

Looks like this guy also has similar problems using RIS on SUN hardware:

http://bink.nu/forums/13855/ShowPost.aspx

He points to this MS KB article:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/227704/en-us

It sounds to me that maybe the RIS setup can't handle the RAID controller in a way that it is configured. Can you check to what disk the signature (8bfbb) the boot.ini is refering to (you probably need to go into the raid setup to be able to see stuff like signatures). Maybe that gives you an idea about where windows tries to boot from...

The referred KB article also mentions that it may be that your SCSI disc has a cylinder boundary that is too high (>1024) for RIS setup. Try to create a logical disk in the raid setup right at the start of the disc and 4Gb long for example.

I also checked the SUN knowledge base and the manual also has some words on the RIS setup of Ultra 40 workstations:

http://sunsolve.sun.com/data/819/819-3953/pdf/819-3953-12.pdf

See the chapter on Software installation'...

Reply
0 Kudos