[Hipster Doofus]

FINALLY! w00t w00t.

Now I can get on with creating the rest of the install. w00t w00t

Well it was the driver. After trying from the original XP cd & getting the same message asking for the floppy I nearly gave up.

As a last ditch effort instead of using the XP driver ( I only want it to pick up the array at bootup) I chose to use the win2k driver.

It booted all the way to seeing the array. I haven't gone any further but I believe the problem is solved. I'll try going all the way in a day or two.

I've only done it using nlite but can't see any issues when I go with textmode.

I should be able to slim down that driver folder file as I go now.

Thanx again trainee for helping me thru. I would have chucked the towel in long ago. Cheers!

[trainee]

Yes! I'm glad you got it to work. I remember that feeling the first time I got my 3wares working. I really dont understand why the xp drivers dont work but the 2000 drivers do but now that you have something working slimming down is much easier.

Your hard work paid off; congrats.


@cdob: thanks, glad to help. Can I ask which drivers you have working?

[cdob]

@trainee

I've few hardware only.

txtsetup.oem said:

[Disks]
d1 = "Mass Storage Drivers", \TXTSETUP.OEM, ""

[Defaults]
;48 bit LBA
scsi = Ultra

[scsi]
Ultra = "Promise ULTRA Controller"
iaStor = "Intel SATA Controller"
viaraid_multiple = "VIA RAID Controller"

[TheCrowX]

Hi everyone i tried to use this method but it didn t work here is what i did step by step
I created 2 folders ( $TEXTMODE$ ) one under $OEM$ and another under I386
so now i have
D:\XPCDFE\$OEM$\$TEXTMODE$
D:\XPCDFE\I386\$OEM$

I copied all my sata driver to both directories
then modified winnt.sip here is what i added

[MassStorageDrivers]
"iaAHCI_ICH7R = "Intel® 82801GR/GH SATA AHCI Controller (Desktop ICH7R/DH)" = "OEM"

[OEMBootFiles]
txtsetup.oem
iaahci.inf
iaahci.cat
iastor.sys

and here is some other winnt.sif infos

[Unattended]
UnattendMode=FullUnattended
OemSkipEula=Yes
OemPreinstall=Yes
TargetPath=\WINDOWS
FileSystem=*
UnattendSwitch="yes"
WaitForReboot="No"
DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore

so can anyone tell me what s wrong in the installation ?
I attached also a copy of txtsetup.oem ( btw i modified the file extension to .txt to i could upload it here )

Thanx in advance

Attached File(s)

•  txtsetup.txt (2.75K)
  Number of downloads: 94

This post has been edited by TheCrowX: 18 May 2006 - 01:23 AM

[cdob]

@TheCrowX

[MassStorageDrivers] has to match the description in txtsetup.oem.
That's not the hole line. Remove iaAHCI_ICH7R.

[MassStorageDrivers]
"Intel(R) 82801GR/GH SATA RAID Controller (Desktop ICH7R/DH)" = "OEM"

Or try

[MassStorageDrivers]
"Intel SATA RAID Controller" = "OEM"
"Intel SATA AHCI Controller" = "OEM"

; ****************************************************************************
; ****************************************************************************
; **	Filename:  TxtSetup.OEM
; ****************************************************************************
; ****************************************************************************

[Disks]
disk1 = "Intel Matrix Storage Manager driver", iaStor.sys, \

[Defaults]
scsi = iaStor

;----------- Component Section -----------

[scsi]
iaStor = "Intel SATA RAID Controller"
iaAHCI = "Intel SATA AHCI Controller"

;-------------------------------------------

[Files.scsi.iaStor]
driver = disk1, iaStor.sys, iaStor
inf	= disk1, iaStor.inf
catalog = disk1, iaStor.cat

[Files.scsi.iaAHCI]
driver = disk1, iaStor.sys, iaStor
inf	= disk1, iaAHCI.inf
catalog = disk1, iaAHCI.cat

;-------------------------------------------

[Config.iaStor]
value = "", tag, REG_DWORD, 1b
value = "", ErrorControl, REG_DWORD, 1
value = "", Group, REG_SZ, "SCSI miniport"
value = "", Start, REG_DWORD, 0
value = "", Type, REG_DWORD, 1

;-------------------------------------------------------

[HardwareIds.scsi.iaStor]
id = "PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27C3&CC_0104","iaStor"
id = "PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2652&CC_0104","iaStor"
id = "PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_24DF&CC_0104","iaStor"
id = "PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_25B0&CC_0104","iaStor"
;id = "PCI\VEN_8086&CC_0104","iaStor"

[HardwareIds.scsi.iaAHCI]
id = "PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27C1&CC_0106","iaStor"
id = "PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2652&CC_0106","iaStor"
id = "PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2653&CC_0106","iaStor"
;id = "PCI\VEN_8086&CC_0106","iaStor"

[TheCrowX]

Thanx cdob for the answer
well i used this
[MassStorageDrivers]
"Intel® 82801GR/GH SATA RAID Controller (Desktop ICH7R/DH)" = "OEM"
and still doesn t work i wasted like 6cds until now
I foud this on intel site too
http://www.intel.com...b/CS-020825.htm
but still doesn t work the strange thing on this methode is that
iaAHCI = "Intel SATA AHCI Controller" doesn t exsist in textsetup.oem
i even have IAAHCI.CAT, IAAHCI.INF, IASTOR.CAT, IASTOR.INF, IASTOR.SYS, and TXTSETUP.OEM copied over three folders which are
D:\XPCDFE\$OEM$\TEXTMODE
D:\XPCDFE\I386\$OEM$
D:\XPCDFE\I386\$OEM$\Textmode

and again here is what is in winnt.sif
[MassStorageDrivers]
"Intel® 82801GR SATA AHCI Controller" = "OEM"

[OEMBootFiles]
iaAhci.inf
iaStor.sys
iaAhci.cat
Txtsetup.oem


i used a newer version of the sata files here is the file again
Any other suggestion ?

Thanx in advance

Attached File(s)

•  txtsetup.txt (3.02K)
  Number of downloads: 75

[PVU]

Crow, I'm just getting into this $OEM$ integration also. I was interested in getting this done because I'm also using HFSLIP. Then I ran into Fernando1's various conversations about force-fitting difficult NVidia RAID drivers, and he mentioned a program called Windows Unattended CD Creator. It was developed by his friend, Vitali Graf. Go to: http://www.vitaligraf.de/en/index.htm

I haven't used all of the features of the CD Creator, but I can tell you that it worked great integrating those Intel iaStor drivers. It also integrated (in PnP mode) the IntelINF drivers perfectly.

The nice thing about this program as it will interest you is that it applies TEXTMODE drivers in the traditional $OEM$ manner.

You may want to give it a shot. Vitaly is German, but you can setup the program for English, and he has an English forum. If you give it a go, let me know how it works out for you.

This post has been edited by PVU: 19 May 2006 - 07:09 AM

[TheCrowX]

hi PVU i m sure that that method will work i got my sata drivers slipstreamed using nlite too but i want to do it with this methode cuz it doesn t Change any file i ll give that software a try
BUT i m still interested in this textmode methode

Thanx

[cdob]

@TheCrowX

There are reliable CD-RW.

Winnt.sif and txtsetup.oem has to contain the same string.

You may edit txtsetup.oem.
A edited txtsetup.oem may contain 'iaAHCI = "Intel SATA AHCI Controller"'.

ISO9660 directroy name has to be $OEM$, not _OEM_.
ISO9660 names has to be uppercased: $OEM$, WINNT.SIF, TXTSETUP.OEM
Run ISOBuster and compare.

Does your hardware use ID PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27C3 ?

[azaze1]

I need help peeps.

I've got a new Dell 5150c, with the ICH7R (AHCI) sata controller. Several people here have this same controller onboard and must be facing the same problem I am. Of course the XP setup doesn't recognize any hard drive because of this controller. I've read through every post on this thread, and I've done everything right as far as I can tell but setup STILL does not see the controller and thus no hard drive.

I have a multiboot cd environment, so keep that in mind.

I've got txtsetup.oem and the iaStor.sys, iastor.inf, iastor.cat, iaahci.inf, and iaahci.cat files in the following folders:

CDROOT\PRO1\$OEM$
CDROOT\SETUP\XP\PROFESSIONAL\$OEM$\TEXTMODE

my winnt.sif file has the following relevant entries:

[MassStorageDrivers]
"Intel® 82801GR/GH SATA RAID Controller (Desktop ICH7R/DH)"
"Intel® 82801GR/GH SATA AHCI Controller (Desktop ICH7R/DH)"
"IDE CD-ROM (ATAPI 1.2)/PCI IDE Controller" = "RETAIL"

[OEMBootFiles]
txtsetup.oem
iaahci.cat
iaahci.inf
iastor.cat
iastor.inf
iastor.sys

For good measure, I've copied the iastor.sys file (uncompressed) to the PRO1 folder, as well as the i386 folder. Still not working. What am I doing wrong? Or what am I missing? BTW: in case it matters, I've got a 250GB sata drive hooked up which Dell suggests may be the problem and they said to try changing a BIOS setting on the SATA portion to Combination mode rather than normal mode. I haven't tried that just yet but my feeling is that it is the driver support above that is causing my problem.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks

[azaze1]

Okay, I realized I had left off the critical = "OEM" part within the WINNT.SIF for the [MassStorageDrivers] section.

I've fixed that and now during the initial part of setup (before it would let you partition drives), I get an error immediately after loading the iaStor.sys file that says

Section Files.SCSI.iaStor_ICH7R of the INF file is invalid

[ideas]

can this method be used from CD?

[joenewbie]

This worked absolutely great!!! All I did was use the exact WINNT.SIF file in the very first post (substituting my data for the "XXXX" fields, of course). Here was the situation I overcame:

We send out server appliances to all our clients and use them to provide remote DBA admin/monitoring services for the client's servers. I recently painstakingly built up a Ghost image to use on these servers that includes a 3Ware 8006-2LP SATA RAID card to provide a RAID 1 mirror for the XP Pro OS we install. We had been using 1U servers that had an Intel® Server Board SE7520BD2 motherboard. I built the original Ghost image by using a scratch manual install from CD with a Floppy to "F6" the 3ware drivers at the beginning. No big deal and I didn't care about unattended because I only had to build up one box from scratch and then Ghost would do the grunt work for all the rest. Well...

We just got our next batch of servers, and lo and behold, our HW vendor has switched our motherboards to Intel® Server Board S5000VSA motherboards. So now my Ghost image is no good due to the changed underlying hardware and there is not only no floppy drive in the new servers, but NO FLOPPY CONTROLLER either!

I tried to slipstream the driver into an XP Pro SP2 CD image using nlite's "Add Driver" (which looks like it just crams it down as compressed files in two places under i386?), but that didn't work. Then I found this thread and simply used the exact WINNT.SIF file and burned another CD (with the drivers tossed into the $OEM$\TEXTMODE\ and I386\$OEM$\ directories). I didn't even care about unattended, I just wanted to get XP loaded somehow, some way, on my 3Ware array sitting on a floppyless mobo! Well now I've killed two birds with one stone, because I have a sweet unattended install CD that includes my 3Ware drivers. I can even use the same CD if the motherboard changes again. I probably only understand about 70% of how this works too, but that's fine with me!

Thank you very, very, much!

[Greenhorn]

Hi there,

I want to build an installation of xp from my USB-Stick. (It will be handled on my Mainboard as a harddisk ...)

In cause I'm using a RAID0 set on my PC, I want to integrate the RAID Drivers (nForce 4) into the Installation.
Now I want to try the Textmode-Method, but I have a little problem, because I also want to integrate the SATA Driver (Silicon Image).

I read in the deploy.chm that I'm able to add multiple instances, but -naturally- this is not documented by Ms.

Could anybody give me an answer how to do it ?

My problem is: I have two txtsetup.oem files -one for the nvraid(RAID) and one for the sil3132(SATA)- and
I don't know what to do now.
Must I add the entries of the one txtsetup.oem to the other txtsetup.oem or am I able to create Subfolders and
set the path in the [OEMBootFiles]-Section to the txtsetup.oem's ?

Or is it better to install the Silicon Image SATA Driver over the OemPnPDriversPath.
I don't need the Silicon Image Driver at Boot-up, just the nvraid/nvatabus Drivers !

winnt.sif

[MassStorageDrivers]
	   "NVIDIA RAID CLASS DRIVER (required)"=OEM
	   "NVIDIA nForce Storage Controller (required)"=OEM
	   "Silicon Image SiI 3132 SATALink Controller for Windows XP/Server 2003"=OEM
	   
   [OEMBootFiles]
	   idecoi.dll
	   nvatabus.sys
	   nvraid.cat
	   nvraid.inf
	   nvraid.sys
	   nvraidco.dll
	   txtsetup.oem
	   si3132.cat
	   SI3132.inf
	   Si3132.sys
	   SilSupp.cpl
	   SiWinAcc.sys
	   TxtSet.oem

You can see that I renamed the TxtSet(up).exe in the moment, so don't wonder - it's just temporary renamed til I found a solution ...


Greetz
Greenhorn

Edit: Sorry for this Spam, I found the answer in this thread ...

This post has been edited by Greenhorn: 25 September 2007 - 02:12 PM

[penpen]

EDIT: here is my previous post

Quote

Does this method override txtsetup.sif?

I only ask because I noted that you have to include the line

"IDE CD-ROM (ATAPI 1.2)/PCI IDE Controller" = "RETAIL"

to prevent the system from being unable to find the boot device (this is a reference to a device also found in txtsetup.sif). I have already added drivers using driverpacks for mass storage devices, I am just wondering if I need to reference these drivers again in [MassStorageDrivers] or only the above line of code in order to take advantage of mass storage drivers from both places (i will be using my installation disk on a variety of hardware and am aiming for the maximum compatibility)

For reference, this method does override txtsetup.sif, or rather, it overrides where it looks in that file. I placed a different raid controller in my test system which worked before I defined a [MassStorageDrivers] section or [OemBootFiles] section in my winnt.sif and it was unable to find the drive during the installation.

Previously, I had added entries to winnt.sif under the IDE cdrom one as such:

"Adaptec AHA-294X/AHA-394X/AIC-78XX SCSI Controller" = "RETAIL"
"Adaptec AHA-294XU2/AIC-7890 SCSI Controller" = "RETAIL"
"Adaptec RAID Storport Driver" = "RETAIL"
"Agilent HHBA-510x PCI Fibre Channel Controller" = "RETAIL"
"Compaq Drive Array" = "RETAIL"
"Compaq Fibre Channel Host Controller" = "RETAIL"
"Smart Array 53xx/63xx Controller" = "RETAIL"
"Emulex Scsiport Fibre Channel Host Adapters" = "RETAIL"

with the same names listed in txtsetup.sif. However, with something like 50 or so drivers to list, or some other factor I may be unaware of, the presence of all of those devices in [massstoragedevices] prevented it from detecting the controller I was trying to add to the install:

"AMCC 3ware 7000/8000 Series ATA RAID Controller" = "OEM"

As listed previously in this thread, this is the only method that works with this controller.

I think it may be possible to get past this by referencing txtsetup.sif in the oembootfiles section, but I'm not sure if that would work.

This post has been edited by penpen: 19 September 2008 - 03:22 AM

[Stoner81]

Just a thort here why not use the Driverpacks Mass Storage drivers from driverpacks.net and slipstream them directly into your setup cd?

Sorry if this has already been mentioned

Stoner81

[penpen]

Stoner81, on Sep 19 2008, 08:39 AM, said:

Just a thort here why not use the Driverpacks Mass Storage drivers from driverpacks.net and slipstream them directly into your setup cd?

Sorry if this has already been mentioned

Stoner81

This is mentioned on the driverpacks forums. To quote from that link:

Quote

; Disabled! driver conflicts with the Silicon Image 3112r and Silicon Image 3132 drivers.
; if you need this, unzip, disable [S-5] [S-5-A] [S-B] and [S-C] and enable this section
; ( to enable, change ms_count=0 to ms_count=1 )

This is specific to the AMCC 3ware 7000/8000 series sata controller drivers. Later in that same thread, its stated that these drivers were removed from the driverpacks project (the initial post is in reference to a much older version of DriverPacks). However, for my disk I just ended up using a workaround with a multiboot, with a different winnt.sif for if I am installing on a system using that card, or a different one I can use if I just want to use the native driverpacks drivers (which use method 1 for driver slipstreaming). The guide outlined in the first post of this thread is what i think is known as method2, using $OEM$\TEXTMODE and defining an [OemBootFiles] section in winnt.sif/unattend.txt

I also found that with all of the driverpacks mass storage drivers enabled, it takes a long time for the installer to start as it loads every mass storage driver into memory every time you run the installer. For this reason, I may end up making a few other multiboot options to load different sets of drivers to allow the installer to run a little more smoothly at the start. Since method1 drivers add lines for them into txtsetup.sif, you should be able to directly reference them in winnt.sif as such:

;this is example code from txtsetup.sif, of lines which were added by driverpacks
[SCSI]
aic78xx  = "Adaptec AHA-294X/AHA-394X/AIC-78XX SCSI Controller"
aic78u2  = "Adaptec AHA-294XU2/AIC-7890 SCSI Controller"
arc = "Adaptec RAID Storport Driver"
afcnt = "Agilent HHBA-510x PCI Fibre Channel Controller"
cpqarray = "Compaq Drive Array"

taking these lines, we should be able to create a winnt.sif that only looks for those specific drivers by placing them in [MassStorageDevices] as such:

;this is example code from winnt.sif, referencing the lines above from txtsetup.sif
[MassStorageDrivers]
"IDE CD-ROM (ATAPI 1.2)/PCI IDE Controller" = "RETAIL";if you are going to define any set of method1 drivers in winnt.sif, you need at least this one.
"Adaptec AHA-294X/AHA-394X/AIC-78XX SCSI Controller" = "RETAIL"
"Adaptec AHA-294XU2/AIC-7890 SCSI Controller" = "RETAIL"
"Adaptec RAID Storport Driver" = "RETAIL"
"Agilent HHBA-510x PCI Fibre Channel Controller" = "RETAIL"
"Compaq Drive Array" = "RETAIL"

I'll probably test that out later tonight and post my results.

[aenagy]

trainee, on May 5 2006, 02:23 PM, said:

Once you have it working we can work on removing what you don't need. Its not too hard to rewrite the txtsetup.oem file, that is what RASOR does...its around here somewhere I swear...

Are there any updates to RASOR?

Is RASOR open source?

Does anyone have a working URL to download RASOR?

[meowing]

Was wondering the same thing.

Is this also applicable on XP Pro x64 Edition install-images? It seems that the nlite textmode driver-slipstream does not work at all for the Intel Matrix set of storage chips.

[Noxolos]

I like this method and with the Intel SATA drivers it works like a charm. Thank You for this!

Intel® Matrix Storage Manager Driver 8.9.0.1023

I've put the drivers in the two folders:

$OEM$\TEXTMODE\
I386\$OEM$\

Then I opened the TXTSETUP.OEM and looked up the controller names in the [scsi] section:

[scsi]

; iaAHCI.inf
iaAHCI_ESB2		 = "Intel(R) ESB2 SATA AHCI Controller"
iaAHCI_7RDH		 = "Intel(R) ICH7R/DH SATA AHCI Controller"
iaAHCI_7MMDH		= "Intel(R) ICH7M/MDH SATA AHCI Controller"
iaAHCI_8RDHDO	   = "Intel(R) ICH8R/DH/DO SATA AHCI Controller"
iaAHCI_8MEM		 = "Intel(R) ICH8M-E/M SATA AHCI Controller"
iaAHCI_9RDODH	   = "Intel(R) ICH9R/DO/DH SATA AHCI Controller"
iaAHCI_9MEM		 = "Intel(R) ICH9M-E/M SATA AHCI Controller"
iaAHCI_10DDO		= "Intel(R) ICH10D/DO SATA AHCI Controller"
iaAHCI_10R		  = "Intel(R) ICH10R SATA AHCI Controller"
iaAHCI_PCHM		 = "Intel(R) PCHM SATA AHCI Controller 4 Port"
iaAHCI_PCHM_1	   = "Intel(R) PCHM SATA AHCI Controller 6 Port"
iaAHCI_PCH		  = "Intel(R) PCH SATA AHCI Controller"

; iaStor.inf
iaStor_ESB2		 = "Intel(R) ESB2 SATA RAID Controller"
iaStor_7RDH		 = "Intel(R) ICH7R/DH SATA RAID Controller"
iaStor_7MDH		 = "Intel(R) ICH7MDH SATA RAID Controller"
iaStor_8R9R10RDOPCH = "Intel(R) ICH8R/ICH9R/ICH10R/DO/PCH SATA RAID Controller"
iaStor_8ME9MEPCHM   = "Intel(R) ICH8M-E/ICH9M-E/PCHM SATA RAID Controller"

After that I modified my WINNT.SIF (German version of Windows) and added the following lines:

[MassStorageDrivers]
	"Intel(R) ESB2 SATA AHCI Controller"="OEM"
	"Intel(R) ICH7R/DH SATA AHCI Controller"="OEM"
	"Intel(R) ICH7M/MDH SATA AHCI Controller"="OEM"
	"Intel(R) ICH8R/DH/DO SATA AHCI Controller"="OEM"
	"Intel(R) ICH8M-E/M SATA AHCI Controller"="OEM"
	"Intel(R) ICH9R/DO/DH SATA AHCI Controller"="OEM"
	"Intel(R) ICH9M-E/M SATA AHCI Controller"="OEM"
	"Intel(R) ICH10D/DO SATA AHCI Controller"="OEM"
	"Intel(R) ICH10R SATA AHCI Controller"="OEM"
	"Intel(R) PCHM SATA AHCI Controller 4 Port"="OEM"
	"Intel(R) PCHM SATA AHCI Controller 6 Port"="OEM"
	"Intel(R) PCH SATA AHCI Controller"="OEM"

	"Intel(R) ESB2 SATA RAID Controller"="OEM"
	"Intel(R) ICH7R/DH SATA RAID Controller"="OEM"
	"Intel(R) ICH7MDH SATA RAID Controller"="OEM"
	"Intel(R) ICH8R/ICH9R/ICH10R/DO/PCH SATA RAID Controller"="OEM"
	"Intel(R) ICH8M-E/ICH9M-E/PCHM SATA RAID Controller"="OEM"

	"IDE CD-ROM (ATAPI 1.2)/PCI IDE-Controller"="RETAIL"
	
[OEMBootFiles]
	iaahci.cat
	iaAHCI.inf
	iastor.cat
	iaStor.inf
	IaStor.sys
	TXTSETUP.OEM

For the English version of Windows it's important to change the following line from:

"IDE CD-ROM (ATAPI 1.2)/PCI IDE-Controller"="RETAIL" to
"IDE CD-ROM (ATAPI 1.2)/PCI IDE Controller"="RETAIL"

Perhaps this very important difference between the two language versions should be mentioned in the first post of this thread?


Now my problem is, that I want to create a CD with SATA drivers for a repair installation (not recovery console) of Windows XP, but when I use this CD I haven't the chance to start a repair installation. After choosing the partition the setup immediately starts to copy files onto it ending up with a second Windows installation in the same partition.

Is there a way to use the TEXTMODE method to create a CD with which I'm able to start a repair installation?

A similar situation is discussed here: http://www.msfn.org/...howtopic=136061

best regards
Noxolos

This post has been edited by Noxolos: 30 July 2009 - 07:50 AM