From: <Mat...@cb...> - 2006-07-27 13:38:38
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Sometimes I run into a problem using unattended on a machine that is formatted with FAT32, but I have found a solution that may work for you. The symptoms I see are that when the script gets to the point where the newly created partition is formatted, I get a screen full of "error writing sector" messages (or some similar message). When this happened, I tried to remove the primary partition, and have unattended re-create it, but I still got the same error message. I'm not sure what causes it, but I suspect it may have something to do with the MBR. I fix it by running DBAN (Darik's boot and Nuke) and completely erase the first 1% of the disk, then I reboot. This totally destroys the partition table and MBR, and then unattended works OK. That might help in your case, however, you might not want to do that if you have a diagnostics partition on your hard disk. In fact, I don't know if DBAN would work on an SATA drive (If that is what you are using). ----- Forwarded by Matt Fries/cbca on 07/26/2006 08:25 AM ----- Falko Trojahn <ftr...@sm...> To: Tim Bates Sent by: <ti...@ne...> una...@li...u cc: rceforge.net una...@li... Subject: Re: [Unattended] NTLDR Missing - 07/26/2006 03:11 AM Nooooo!!!!! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Tim, > Unfortunately this version still didn't work. And we already have the > format line there. > I just did another run, but this time edited the doit.bat before it "did > it". I took the last line off so setup didnt start, then I continued. I > saw the format happen, then as expected, I dropped to a DOS style > prompt. Hit CTRL+ALT+DEL and the laptop rebooted, and I started up my > favorite partition manager. At this point, you can do e.g. Alt-F2 and then parted /dev/dsk print to see what's on. > It lists one ~60GB FAT32 partition as a primary and active. Well, this means there's nothing at all done since after partitioning with unattended there _must_ be an active primary 4GB Fat32 on first position and - as you like - any other partition after the free space which is resized within Windows setup process. > The MBR has an unknown IPL (which I assume is the FreeDOS one). > There are no errors listed anywhere... > BUT - There is more than 600MB used on that partition apparently. This > shouldn't be the case since the format should have removed it. I have a > suspicion that the format isn't happening for some reason. No partitioning, no formatting I assume. Perhaps you could send the used unattend.txt/config.pl/[unattend.csv], keys stripped off, of course. Or, you could try my setup which is described here: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=19294502 Again, we need a solution to log the details of the unattended setup process and of the pc if it comes to problems ... Good luck, Falko - -- Falko Trojahn fon +49-341-3581294 Dipl.-Ingenieur Netzwerke/Support fax +49-341-3581295 SMI Softmark Informationstechnologien GmbH www.smi-softmark.de -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBRMcju4kcY98goEs/AQLxqQf+PWtFyyzybzeydVbskJrTfWWVUNeZGioO CcZAt4iBfQpZp82aAtoBcfd1h8h9wV+fjlz8zYr4ccbwE3g6v2+IlRwzuerEGBeJ Uy3Obvka7/Bo25TTNWmaFzolKN4Y6CoQ7njAlBa6K5LJVaJzKLjHr9S77ZyT2VBg XDqcu/uo2XfbnazD6AYiJNQUndiAKe5ypsCNMsWACJUimtXQcf6/6m8O3tbUAToB bTIsxXKAXy9AZG8Yj7UGUrll5gCoGFWqwo6M/RABELgVvug31sb/Pm4PTzLOut6q ydnCRMHx6nOMjoQkXiOlhEfvvTMU1HlHDNMjhRU8rKbnnn0l1M8LEQ== =9Rdo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. 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