How do i use a SCSI CD-Rom to install winxp???

[ronein]

My normal ide CD ROM went south and i have no other CD ROM to use at the moment??

I can only see a message that says that "there is a bootable disc on the CD-ROM" message but cant get directly boot into the scsi drive.


Please help!

regards and thanks in advance!

roreen

 

[dkozloski]

Set your BIOS to boot from the SCSI CD-ROM first.

 

[Lord Evermore]

Set your BIOS to boot either from CDROM or from SCSI, then set the options in your SCSI card setup to load the SCSI BIOS (should be a key combo while the SCSI card loads during POST to get you into setup). You'll probably need to have SCSI controller drivers on a floppy disc, to direct Windows Setup to them during the install.

 

[ronein]

You'll probably need to have SCSI controller drivers on a floppy disc, to direct Windows Setup to them during the install.

this one is what i dont have.

the scsi contrloller is adaptec 2940.

so what to do now?

 

[Wolfsraider]

win xp may already have the drivers for it

it has my lsi drivers already but if it doesn't well......

 

[ronein]

well ive sent the BIOS to detect the scsi device first and boot to the cd rom and it still doesnt work.

i wonder what the key combo should be

 

[Windogg]

Have you considered using the four boot floppies?

Windogg

 

[Wolfsraider]

hit the space bar or enter when it offers the choice?

 

[authenticate]

Originally posted by: ronein
well ive sent the BIOS to detect the scsi device first and boot to the cd rom and it still doesnt work.

i wonder what the key combo should be

I have a 2940 and I think the key combination is Ctrl A.

 

[Lord Evermore]

Yeah, adaptec's is ctrl-a. Yours may currently be configured not to display the prompt, so just start hitting it as soon as the IDE devices are done detecting. Even if a bootable CD is installed, the controller must be configured to load the SCSI BIOS into memory (and a couple of other options) in order to allow it to be used for booting.

The drivers of course can be freely downloaded from Adaptec's site. If you make a driver floppy with the Windows and/or DOS drivers on it (not sure which versions Setup can use), then during Setup when it says hit F6 to load SCSI drivers, do so. Without it, Setup can't use the CDROM drive even though it booted from it, as that is separate functionality. The "boot" area of the disc loads Setup, but can't go any further without drivers to read the device. This is different from Windows having drivers for use in the GUI, which XP should.

 

[ronein]

Thanks for the input guys..really appreciate it.

In anycase i solved the problem by buying a new IDE Lite-on cd-writer

 

[Slammy1]

I remember this thread. I had to look it up to remember how to do it.

1. Adaptec has a program to run on a bootable floppy which creates the system files you need. You also need to create an autoexec.bat and config.sys to load the drivers.

2. Download the appropriate start up disks (as seen here):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...FamilyID=FBE5E4FC-695F-43E5-AF05-719F45C382A4

You can find other such programs on:
http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

 

[alkemyst]

yeah it's simple...tell the bios boot from CD, and tell the scsi card boot from the CD.

Then it will usually pause and say something like 'Select # of section to boot, pressing no key will continue'

 

[amorse2183]

i installed winxp off that same scsi controller many times..it has the drivers for it already and it will work just fine. all you have to do is set it to boot from either cdrom or scsi, and just push the spacebar or something to get it to boot when it gives you the option to do so

 

[alkemyst]

I think it's F5 to load a third party scsi/raid...but adaptec should be built-in.

Chris