Nlite and VIA Raid drivers

Irish_Tom · 28 Feb 2007 at 02:34

Lo all,

I'm trying to make a nice, up to date disk of WinXP with nlite and I've run into some trouble.

When I go to install XP I do the F6 thing with the floppy and load viamraid.sys etc etc. The installer finds my SATA hdd and I select a partition to install windows onto. It does a quick check of the drive and then goes to load all the files needed for install. The first thing it does is complain that it can't find viamraid.sys.

If I skip the file it complains about viamraid.inf and .cat
If I skip all of these it copies all the other files without any trouble, but I then get a BSOD after re-starting.

I've tried using nlites driver intergrator. It makes a folder in \I386 called NLDRV with the files in it, but they don't seem to get accessed by the installer. I've tried taking these files out of the nldrv folder and sticking them in \I386 directly to no avail.

Is there somewhere else I should be copying these files or am I doing something else wrong?

I would try the "raid_slipstreamer" from msfn, but the version with the via drivers requires .Net 1.1 and for some reason it wont let me install that :rolleyes:

Anyone got any ideas?

Cheers for any help you can give!

Panzer

shr3k · 28 Feb 2007 at 09:42

Drivers

http://www.msfn.org/board/lofiversion/index.php/t47423.html (delete if im not allowed to post links, cheers shr3k)

Hi found this on another forum so ill copy and paste it in as im not sure if im allowed to use links lol.

Quote :

After nlite integrates textmode driver all you need to do is edit txtsetup.sif and reverse same entries as these to look like this (in this order):

CODE[SourceDisksFiles]
nvatabus.sys = 1,,,,,,4_,4,1,,,1,4
nvraid.sys = 1,,,,,,4_,4,1,,,1,4

[HardwareIdsDatabase]
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_008E = "nvatabus"
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0085 = "nvatabus"
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_00D5 = "nvatabus"
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_00EE = "nvatabus"
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_00E3 = "nvatabus"
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_00E5 = "nvatabus"
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0035 = "nvatabus"
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0036 = "nvatabus"
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_003E = "nvatabus"
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0053 = "nvatabus"
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0054 = "nvatabus"
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0055 = "nvatabus"
*_NVRAIDBUS = "nvraid"
GenNvRaidDisk = "nvraid"

[SCSI.Load]
nvatabus = nvatabus.sys,4
nvraid = nvraid.sys,4

[SCSI]
nvatabus = "NVIDIA NForce Storage Controller"
nvraid = "NVIDIA RAID CLASS DRIVER"

Nlite had problem to reverse entries...imagine that trivial thing matters
(I thought Windows parses all entries and chooses best one like they do for PNP drivers, why oh why they neglect Textmode).
Tip about this I received from Bâshrat the Sneaky weeks ago but only now it has been confirmed to fix undetected drive issue.
Only thing left is those guys with BSOD after installation...maybe this will help them too but I doubt it.

I hope that helps. It was found on MSFn forums posted by a guy called Nuhi.

If you want the link PM me,

Shr3k

Irish_Tom · 28 Feb 2007 at 12:29

Hi Shr3k!

Thanks for that, I actually got the driver to intergrate last night eventually! However, then I got all sorts of other problems. When copying the other files across it just kept saying it couldn't find them. I tried putting my original XP cd in and getting them off that but it wasn't having any of it.

I'm going to try from scratch just now. Wish me luck!

Panzer

bledd · 28 Feb 2007 at 12:45

first of all, not all drivers will integrate, many are not designed to be integrated and unless nuhi works on individual drivers, many will not work

if you find a problematic sata/raid driver, its very likely to get fixed

try with just the raid driver and see if you get missing files

also, posting in the msfn forum will get you a lot more sucess

Irish_Tom · 28 Feb 2007 at 13:08

Cool thanks bledd.

Like i said, I got the raid drivers to work, it was all the other files that refused to copy over in the end last night. I'll give it one more go, then if it doesnt work i'll post my most recent nlite attempt in msfn

Cheers

Panzer

Irish_Tom · 28 Feb 2007 at 13:17

Just one more quick question.

I've just got the RAID slipstreamer to run

and it's made the directory

E:\WindowsXPinstall\OriginalCD\I386\$OEM$\$1\Drivers\RAID

which I assume is a good thing.However, the folder is empty. Should I be seeing diver files? I've turned on 'view all' and it still appears empty....

Cheers

Panzer

bledd · 28 Feb 2007 at 13:24

Raid slipstreamer says to use simple paths

call it c:\XPCD like the msfn guide says, its probably too long for the program

Irish_Tom · 28 Feb 2007 at 13:38

Ah right ok thanks again bledd.
I'll get there eventually!

Panzer