Adding Third Party Storage Controllers in RIS WIN2k3

Question
I have been using RIS for a few years now and have only recently come upon
this issue. I have tried to research this specfic problem, but I am not
coming up with any workable answers. Here is the Issue

I need to add an Intel SATA driver that will recognize the HD during the
initial setup for a Windows XP Pro SP2 image. If I were doing this manually,
I would have the option of pressing F6 to install the driver, however with
RIS I do not. How do I add this driver so that it recognizes the hard drive?

I have scoured the internet and the MS & Intel sites, no luck finding that
one bit of info that will help. I have tried adding the PnP drivers and even
followed the steps on Intel's site for an unattended install, but no avail?
I know I have the correct drivers. I am wondering if placing them in either
$oem$\$1\... folder, or in a similar folder in the \i386\$oem\TEXTMODE
folder and editing the parameters in the ristndrd.sif is not the correct
procedure. Is there another file that I need to edit to have RIS see the
drivers during this initial phase of setup? This is probably a very easy
problem to fix, I am a one man show here and this is driving me nutz! HELP!
PLEASE!

Here is a copy of my .sif....
[data]
floppyless = "1"
msdosinitiated = "1"
OriSrc = "\\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\%INSTALLPATH%\%MACHINETYPE%"
OriTyp = "4"
LocalSourceOnCD = 1
DisableAdminAccountOnDomainJoin = 1

[SetupData]
OsLoadOptions = "/noguiboot /fastdetect"
SetupSourceDevice =
"\Device\LanmanRedirector\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\%INSTALLPATH%"

[Unattended]
OemPreinstall = yes
OemPnpDriversPath = Drivers\Nic;Drivers\Storage
FileSystem = LeaveAlone
ExtendOEMPartition = 0
TargetPath = \WINDOWS
OemSkipEula = yes
InstallFilesPath = "\\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\%INSTALLPATH%\%MACHINETYPE%"
LegacyNIC = 1
DriverSigningPolicy = Ignore

[MassStorageDrivers]
"Intel(R) 82801GR SATA AHCI Controller" = "OEM"

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

[UserData]
FullName = "%USERFIRSTNAME% %USERLASTNAME%"
OrgName = "%ORGNAME%"
ComputerName = %MACHINENAME%

[GuiUnattended]
OemSkipWelcome = 1
OemSkipRegional = 1
TimeZone = %TIMEZONE%
AdminPassword = "*"


[Display]
BitsPerPel = 16
XResolution = 800
YResolution = 600
VRefresh = 60

[Networking]

[NetServices]
MS_Server=params.MS_PSched

[Identification]
JoinDomain = %MACHINEDOMAIN%
DoOldStyleDomainJoin = Yes

[RemoteInstall]
Repartition = Yes
UseWholeDisk = Yes


[OSChooser]
Description ="Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2"
Help ="Automatically installs Microsoft Windows XP Professional without
prompting the user for input."
LaunchFile = "%INSTALLPATH%\%MACHINETYPE%\templates\startrom.com"
ImageType =Flat
Version="5.1 (2600)"
--
Jason Dittmer
Network Systems Manager
Williams|Labadie

Hi,

What exact hardware are you trying to set up? Most of the latest
Intel/Dell boxes can run from the BIOS without any text mode drivers at
all. You say you didn't find any info, and yet I can see a
[MassStorageDrivers] section in you SIF, so how did you know how to
create that section if you didn't find it documented anywhere?

mercer2K wrote:
> Question
> I have been using RIS for a few years now and have only recently come upon
> this issue. I have tried to research this specfic problem, but I am not
> coming up with any workable answers. Here is the Issue
>
> I need to add an Intel SATA driver that will recognize the HD during the
> initial setup for a Windows XP Pro SP2 image. If I were doing this manually,
> I would have the option of pressing F6 to install the driver, however with
> RIS I do not. How do I add this driver so that it recognizes the hard drive?
>
> I have scoured the internet and the MS & Intel sites, no luck finding that
> one bit of info that will help. I have tried adding the PnP drivers and even
> followed the steps on Intel's site for an unattended install, but no avail?
> I know I have the correct drivers. I am wondering if placing them in either
> $oem$\$1\... folder, or in a similar folder in the \i386\$oem\TEXTMODE
> folder and editing the parameters in the ristndrd.sif is not the correct
> procedure. Is there another file that I need to edit to have RIS see the
> drivers during this initial phase of setup? This is probably a very easy
> problem to fix, I am a one man show here and this is driving me nutz! HELP!
> PLEASE!
>
> Here is a copy of my .sif....
> [data]
> floppyless = "1"
> msdosinitiated = "1"
> OriSrc = "\\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\%INSTALLPATH%\%MACHINETYPE%"
> OriTyp = "4"
> LocalSourceOnCD = 1
> DisableAdminAccountOnDomainJoin = 1
>
> [SetupData]
> OsLoadOptions = "/noguiboot /fastdetect"
> SetupSourceDevice =
> "\Device\LanmanRedirector\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\%INSTALLPATH%"
>
> [Unattended]
> OemPreinstall = yes
> OemPnpDriversPath = Drivers\Nic;Drivers\Storage
> FileSystem = LeaveAlone
> ExtendOEMPartition = 0
> TargetPath = \WINDOWS
> OemSkipEula = yes
> InstallFilesPath = "\\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\%INSTALLPATH%\%MACHINETYPE%"
> LegacyNIC = 1
> DriverSigningPolicy = Ignore
>
> [MassStorageDrivers]
> "Intel(R) 82801GR SATA AHCI Controller" = "OEM"
>
> [OEMBootFiles]
> iaAhci.inf
> iaStor.sys
> iaAhci.cat
> Textsetup.oem
>
> [UserData]
> FullName = "%USERFIRSTNAME% %USERLASTNAME%"
> OrgName = "%ORGNAME%"
> ComputerName = %MACHINENAME%
>
> [GuiUnattended]
> OemSkipWelcome = 1
> OemSkipRegional = 1
> TimeZone = %TIMEZONE%
> AdminPassword = "*"
>
>
> [Display]
> BitsPerPel = 16
> XResolution = 800
> YResolution = 600
> VRefresh = 60
>
> [Networking]
>
> [NetServices]
> MS_Server=params.MS_PSched
>
> [Identification]
> JoinDomain = %MACHINEDOMAIN%
> DoOldStyleDomainJoin = Yes
>
> [RemoteInstall]
> Repartition = Yes
> UseWholeDisk = Yes
>
>
> [OSChooser]
> Description ="Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2"
> Help ="Automatically installs Microsoft Windows XP Professional without
> prompting the user for input."
> LaunchFile = "%INSTALLPATH%\%MACHINETYPE%\templates\startrom.com"
> ImageType =Flat
> Version="5.1 (2600)"


--
Gerry Hickman (London UK)

Gerry,

Thanks for resonding.

I found the added .sif info from my searches on the Intel and or MS site. I
believe what you see below is actually from Intel. My problem is that even
with that addition it is still not seeing the storage controller. I am
getting an error message during the intial setup that the OS setup cannot
continue because it cannot find any hard drives. Now I have seen this
before, usually during a manual OS install when you forget to press F6 during
the initial install setup so I have been focusing on that area of the setup
process to troubleshoot this.

The HP boxes I am setting up have an Intel SATA 82801GR/GH AHCI Storage
Controller in them. I believe that it is too new for Windows XP to recognize
without specifying the drivers.

Long story short....the info in the .sif that you see is the product of
experimenting with many different instructions for adding storage controllers
that I found in my research. However, the instructuctions did not work in my
case. I believe that it must have something to do with one of the additions
in my .sif, one that I have entered or I am missing. While I have worked
with RIS for sometime, I am not as fluent in setting up unattended installs,
which is where I think now, that expertise would come in handy.
--
Jason Dittmer
Network Systems Manager
Williams|Labadie


"Gerry Hickman" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> What exact hardware are you trying to set up? Most of the latest
> Intel/Dell boxes can run from the BIOS without any text mode drivers at
> all. You say you didn't find any info, and yet I can see a
> [MassStorageDrivers] section in you SIF, so how did you know how to
> create that section if you didn't find it documented anywhere?
>

Hi Mercer,

OK you are making sense now. You researched some text mode drivers, but
they didn't work. That's different to how your first post came across
which was as if you didn't know how to create the entries in the SIF
file and could not find any information on it...

Here are a few suggestions:

1. Have you phoned HP?
2. Have you looked at BIOS options on the controller to offer the drives
to the o/s under BIOS control?

I've never used RIS, but I have some experience with SIF files under
Unattended mode. Where exactly did you put the files referred to in
[OemBootFiles] section? Have you checked the strings match you
TextSetup.oem file? Have you checked case sensitivity on all strings?

3. Have you posted on Compaq (HP) specific forums? This must be a day to
day task for Compaq/HP guys.

4. I've only just noticed you are saying the clients are XP! I saw
WIN2k3 in the subject line and thought we were talking about setting up
a server. I try to avoid XP where ever possible.

mercer2K wrote:
> Gerry,
>
> Thanks for resonding.
>
> I found the added .sif info from my searches on the Intel and or MS site. I
> believe what you see below is actually from Intel. My problem is that even
> with that addition it is still not seeing the storage controller. I am
> getting an error message during the intial setup that the OS setup cannot
> continue because it cannot find any hard drives. Now I have seen this
> before, usually during a manual OS install when you forget to press F6 during
> the initial install setup so I have been focusing on that area of the setup
> process to troubleshoot this.
>
> The HP boxes I am setting up have an Intel SATA 82801GR/GH AHCI Storage
> Controller in them. I believe that it is too new for Windows XP to recognize
> without specifying the drivers.
>
> Long story short....the info in the .sif that you see is the product of
> experimenting with many different instructions for adding storage controllers
> that I found in my research. However, the instructuctions did not work in my
> case. I believe that it must have something to do with one of the additions
> in my .sif, one that I have entered or I am missing. While I have worked
> with RIS for sometime, I am not as fluent in setting up unattended installs,
> which is where I think now, that expertise would come in handy.


--
Gerry Hickman (London UK)

Hi Mercer,

OK you are making sense now. You researched some text mode drivers, but
they didn't work. That's different to how your first post came across
which was as if you didn't know how to create the entries in the SIF
file and could not find any information on it...

Here are a few suggestions:

1. Have you phoned HP?
2. Have you looked at BIOS options on the controller to offer the drives
to the o/s under BIOS control?

I've never used RIS, but I have some experience with SIF files under
Unattended mode. Where exactly did you put the files referred to in
[OemBootFiles] section? Have you checked the strings match you
TextSetup.oem file? Have you checked case sensitivity on all strings?

3. Have you posted on Compaq (HP) specific forums? This must be a day to
day task for Compaq/HP guys.

4. I've only just noticed you are saying the clients are XP! I saw
WIN2k3 in the subject line and thought we were talking about setting up
a server. I try to avoid XP where ever possible.

mercer2K wrote:
> Gerry,
>
> Thanks for resonding.
>
> I found the added .sif info from my searches on the Intel and or MS site. I
> believe what you see below is actually from Intel. My problem is that even
> with that addition it is still not seeing the storage controller. I am
> getting an error message during the intial setup that the OS setup cannot
> continue because it cannot find any hard drives. Now I have seen this
> before, usually during a manual OS install when you forget to press F6 during
> the initial install setup so I have been focusing on that area of the setup
> process to troubleshoot this.
>
> The HP boxes I am setting up have an Intel SATA 82801GR/GH AHCI Storage
> Controller in them. I believe that it is too new for Windows XP to recognize
> without specifying the drivers.
>
> Long story short....the info in the .sif that you see is the product of
> experimenting with many different instructions for adding storage controllers
> that I found in my research. However, the instructuctions did not work in my
> case. I believe that it must have something to do with one of the additions
> in my .sif, one that I have entered or I am missing. While I have worked
> with RIS for sometime, I am not as fluent in setting up unattended installs,
> which is where I think now, that expertise would come in handy.


--
Gerry Hickman (London UK)

Hi Mercer,

OK you are making sense now. You researched some text mode drivers, but
they didn't work. That's different to how your first post came across
which was as if you didn't know how to create the entries in the SIF
file and could not find any information on it...

Here are a few suggestions:

1. Have you phoned HP?
2. Have you looked at BIOS options on the controller to offer the drives
to the o/s under BIOS control?

I've never used RIS, but I have some experience with SIF files under
Unattended mode. Where exactly did you put the files referred to in
[OemBootFiles] section? Have you checked the strings match you
TextSetup.oem file? Have you checked case sensitivity on all strings?

3. Have you posted on Compaq (HP) specific forums? This must be a day to
day task for Compaq/HP guys.

4. I've only just noticed you are saying the clients are XP! I saw
WIN2k3 in the subject line and thought we were talking about setting up
a server. I try to avoid XP where ever possible.

mercer2K wrote:
> Gerry,
>
> Thanks for resonding.
>
> I found the added .sif info from my searches on the Intel and or MS site. I
> believe what you see below is actually from Intel. My problem is that even
> with that addition it is still not seeing the storage controller. I am
> getting an error message during the intial setup that the OS setup cannot
> continue because it cannot find any hard drives. Now I have seen this
> before, usually during a manual OS install when you forget to press F6 during
> the initial install setup so I have been focusing on that area of the setup
> process to troubleshoot this.
>
> The HP boxes I am setting up have an Intel SATA 82801GR/GH AHCI Storage
> Controller in them. I believe that it is too new for Windows XP to recognize
> without specifying the drivers.
>
> Long story short....the info in the .sif that you see is the product of
> experimenting with many different instructions for adding storage controllers
> that I found in my research. However, the instructuctions did not work in my
> case. I believe that it must have something to do with one of the additions
> in my .sif, one that I have entered or I am missing. While I have worked
> with RIS for sometime, I am not as fluent in setting up unattended installs,
> which is where I think now, that expertise would come in handy.


--
Gerry Hickman (London UK)