[WinMac] Re: Blue Screen of Death... Help!!!

Alex Dearden(pata[at]tampabay.rr.com)
Mon, 28 Sep 1998 10:38:16 -0400

>I am trying to setup an NT box on a machine that has nothing but DOS (win
>98 DOS, I think), and I am trying to boot from the CD Player using the
>WinNT4.0 cdrom.
>
>I set the startup sequence so that it boots using the CD ROM (CDROM, C, A)
>in the CMOS Setup Screen, and it looks like it starts talking to the CD
>player, the windows NT setup screen appears and on the bottom, a number of
>events are announced as they occur (I suppose), the last thing to show up
>is "CD-ROM file system", and then it goes into the Blue Screen of Death,
>the following message appears:
>
>INNACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE
>
>(also, lists of what seem to be memory addresses) then nothing else happens.

You could have a DMA or interrupt conflict. Does that machine have a
network card? If you don't know what DMA or interrupts are, don't worry.
The easiest way of going about this is starting from DOS, changing to
your CD-ROM drive (usually D, depending on the number of drives or
volumes you have) type: "d:" (minus quotes). Then change to the I386
directory, type "cd I386" (that's an i before the 3). Now run Win.exe,
type "win.exe /b" (the /b tells nt to install without creating floppies,
strictly from the CD. follow the prompts and you should be fine.

Alex Dearden
pata@doglover.com

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