[Unattended] Sata system hangs after reboot

[Geraldo G. <ge...@ca...>]

Hi All,

I have been an user of unattended for some years now, but i am running
into a problem now.

I use unattended 4.6 with net only installations. This works great on
all my machines....except for the newest machines, wich have Sata disks
and no cd or floppy. If i do an unattended installation on these
machines they fail the install. version 4.6 seems not to recognise the
SATA disks.
I tried using the 4.7pre version. Wich is an improvement, now the
installation runs on until it hits a mysql database error. I solved this
temporarly by switching to the CSV file support. After this i was able
to do an unattended installation until the system reboots to start the
actual windows installation. It then hangs with a blinking cursur just
after the BIOS did its bit. I tried fiddling with bios settings but to
no avail. It just won't boot the harddrive it seems.

Funny thing is when i hook up a cdrom station and use an old WINXP CD
without any service packs (i know it is old) it just starts copying
everything and reboots happely to start the actual installation of XP.  

The new machines have a C51G NVIDIA chipset.

Can someone point me to a solution to this problem?

With regards,


Geraldo Gerritsen