Ghost problem with Dell GX280

[Jersey Joe]

I've got to deploy a bunch of Dell GX280's. I have tried this with both Ghost 8.0 and 8.02. After creating the boot disk(s), I boot the 280, it goes thru the 1st diskette, asks for the 2nd, when it finally gets to the Ghost splash screen the mouse and keyboard freeze and your dead in the water. We can do any other Dell without issue. These 280's are the first that are USB mouse/kybd... NO ps2 ports. Any help would be appreciated!

--Joe

 

[tyanni]

try running ghost with either the -fni or -noide commands. Ghost 7.5/8 have problems with all Sata machines. Fni works for us.

Tim

 

[Jersey Joe]

Tried those already as well as changing the SATA settings in BIOS to "combination" or whatever the setting is other than the default.

 

[ZickZJ]

Upgrade to Ghost 9.0, works fine for us except for the USB mouse which is no biggie. I'm sure that's not the answer you wanted though.

 

[Devistater]

Ghost 9.0 sux nuts. Totally differant software. Symantec bought out another imaging company and used thier stuff for 9.0. They bought PowerQuest and got thier Drive image software. And it its windows only, no dos. So a little hard to throw an image onto computers with no OS installed. The point is to AVOID installing an OS before you image, cause you want to save time. You have a single image you want to throw onto 100 computers, instead of taking 45 mins for each computer to install windows, then more time installing office, configuring, installing more apps, etc etc etc.

Symantec themselves even realize how much it sux and how much people will hate it so they even INCLUDE the ghost 8 cd in with the ghost 9 cd in the retail ghost box. So you have 2 cds in the retail box.

When I installed it my computer started bluescreening on shutdown, so its full of bugs too.

Ghost 9.0 is fine for doing a single user backup of one computer, and restoring that backup after you reinstall windows.
For anyone else handling more, it sux.

Feel free to correct me in anything if I'm wrong, I just used it a couple times and thats how it seemed to me.

Edit: Ok fine, I found out from a review that the ghost 9 boot cds you can make have a win PE pre-install enviroment. It still isn't half as good as ghost 8 IMHO.

 

[Thor86]

Sounds like a SATA issue. If my guess is right, you have SATA drives in those Dells, and you may have to disable Enhanced SATA mode in the bios (if you can).

 

[JackBurton]

Originally posted by: tyanni
try running ghost with either the -fni or -noide commands. Ghost 7.5/8 have problems with all Sata machines. Fni works for us.

Tim

Yep. Ghost 7.5/8.0 and 8.2 work fine with our image using the -fni switch on our GX280s.

Oh yeah, and 9.0 sucks ass. That is the home user version. :thumbsdown:

 

[Jersey Joe]

Found the "problem"...

When making the boot disk it asks what OS you prefer, PC-DOS or MS-DOS. I was and always did choose PC-DOS a)because it's the default b)you have to insert a win-95 or 98 boot disk to have the MS option available c) anytime I can avoid MS I will.

I chose MS-DOS, found a win-95 boot disk(used as a coaster), and bingo!

I guess it's just another step in MS taking over the world....

Thanks everyone for the replies

--Joe