Ok I've been using ghost 11 for years now and up until these new little HP elite book 2530p and 6530p notebooks and new Dell Latitudes (E4300, M4400, E6400), as well as Dell's new T7500 showed up, the boot disks I have to hand out to customers have worked flawlessly.
Now, despite using the same boot floppy for creating the bootable image DVD's, the same recurring error is showing up on all these new systems.
Device driver not found: MSCD001.
No valid CDROM device drivers selected
Invalid drive specification
Bad command or file name
A:\>
I'm at a loss for what could be the issue here. They all have (from what I can tell) standard DVD drives. Why it can't load the drivers, if that's the problem, is a mystery to me.
The win98 boot floppy I'm using has the most recent (that I know of) GCDROM.SYS file
Here's the contents of my autoexe.cfg file
Code:@ECHO OFF
set EXPAND=YES
SET DIRCMD=/O:N
set LglDrv=27 * 26 Z 25 Y 24 X 23 W 22 V 21 U 20 T 19 S 18 R 17 Q 16 P 15
set LglDrv=%LglDrv% O 14 N 13 M 12 L 11 K 10 J 9 I 8 H 7 G 6 F 5 E 4 D 3 C
cls
call setramd.bat %LglDrv%
set temp=c:\
set tmp=c:\
path=%RAMD%:\;a:\;R:\
copy command.com %RAMD%:\ > NUL
set comspec=%RAMD%:\command.com
copy extract.exe %RAMD%:\ > NUL
copy readme.txt %RAMD%:\ > NUL
:ERROR
IF EXIST ebd.cab GOTO EXT
echo Please insert Windows 98 Startup Disk 2
echo.
pause
GOTO ERROR
:EXT
%RAMD%:\extract /y /e /l %RAMD%: ebd.cab > NUL
echo The diagnostic tools were successfully loaded to drive %RAMD%.
echo.
IF "%config%"=="NOCD" GOTO QUIT
IF "%config%"=="HELP" GOTO HELP
LH %ramd%:\MSCDEX.EXE /D:mscd001 /L:R
echo.
GOTO QUIT
:HELP
cls
call help.bat
echo Your computer will now restart and the startup menu will appear.
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo.
restart.com
GOTO QUIT
:QUIT
echo To get help, type HELP and press ENTER.
echo.
rem clean up environment variables
set CDROM=
set LglDrv=
R:
ghost.exe -fni -buffersize=8 -clone,mode=load,src=r:\IMAGENAME.GHO,dst=1 -sure
rem e:
rem ghost.exe -fni -buffersize=8 -clone,mode=load,src=e:\IMAGENAME.gho,dst=1 -sure
I'm using Nero 7.7.5.1 to burn these disks. I'm telling it to burn a bootable dvd rom, using the floppy disk as logical boot drive as source of boot image data then in the compilation window, I just drag the GHO file and any other image files along with ghost.exe and burn the disk.
Data verification passes fine and if I put the DVD into any other system, it'll load the image fine. so it's something up with the hardware in these new systems that the startup files aren't digging.
I've got another boot disk that I use to boot into norton and capture the image up to a server and that works fine.
I think it's something in the win98 startup that is getting stuck but I don't know enough about the process to know what's the problem.
If there is something in the bios that needs to be changed, I may can handle that but with potentially thousands of these new things rolling into the work place, having the computer lab managers all digging around in the bios and changing settings to get the image to load properly has me worried and I'd like to resolve this another way if at all possible.
Any resolution would be good though because right now, they're all coming to me and I load them off the server rather than off a boot disk. It works but it's a lot of extra work for me.
thanks guys!