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

Dan Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Tue, 29 Sep 1998 08:43:05 -0400

  
        Two errata:

        1) Go into your BIOS setup and turn OFF Virus Protection: NT needs to be
able to write to the boot blocks on the i386 platform;

        2) The correct command is *not* WIN.EXE /B
                It is: WINNT.EXE /B if you are starting from a 16 bit OS;
                Or: WINNT32.EXE /B if you are starting from a 32 bit OS.

        Don't worry if you select the wrong installer: It will tell you to use the
other one if you choose wrong.

At 10:38 AM 9/28/98 -0400, you wrote:
>>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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