Chimera and Windows NT/2000/XP

Hello.

I have a Blade 1000 with a SunPCi II (Chimera) card. According to the SunPCi II manual such cards support Windows NT, 2000 and XP. The SunPCi software comes with special installation programs for these systems.

But after trying to install Windows XP (Prof., Ger.), Windows 2000 (Workst., Ger.) and Windows NT (4.0 Workst., Ger.) I am 99% sure that the SunPCi II does <b>not</b> support any of these operating systems.

The Windows setup routine hangs after the "<i>Setup is starting Windows</i>" message although all drivers are loaded correctly and the HAL is set correctly, too. Pressing F6 to load SCSI drivers does not work, either.

According to Microsoft's Article Q310760 this means that the hard disk controller is <b>not</b> supported by Windows.

Because you cannot change the hard disk controller of the SunPCi card this means that the SunPCi II card does not support Windows NT, 2000 or XP. (Although the SunPCi II manual says it does).

Does anyone know how to install Windows XP, 2000 or NT on a SunPCi II card or is it really impossible ?

Thanks.

Martin

[1180 byte] By [] at [2007-11-25 23:06:22]