DL360 5SI / 6SI Sysprep image - BSOD

[Bosher]

We currently have a Citrix Farm which is made up of a number of HP DL380 G3's We purchased all of these boxes at the same time.

Our sysprep image has been happy plodding along.

We then decided to Add some more G3's to the Farm.

HP (bless them) have decided to upgrade the internal 5SI to a 6SI.

Now our image blue screens when we try to apply it.

I have spent numerous hours trying to get the mass storage section of the sysprep.inf file to work but have failed miserably.

Surely I cant be the first to have experienced this scenario!!!

Has onyone out there done this sucessfully and if so, I would like to know the contents of their sysprep.inf file and the version numbers of the drivers they are using.

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any other information that you feel may be applicable.

Many thanks

Simon.

[bhurtel]

That is all becaus of HAL

IT won't allow u to use the syspreped image in PC containing different HAL

what is ur switches

[Bosher]

I did investigate the possibility of the two machines using different HAL's. On the surface they both appear to be identicle.

Switches for which bit? Sysprep, mass storage?

Cheers

[bhurtel]

Switches with sysprep and inf file

Have u checked the each computer identification

uniprocessor or standard PC or ACPI

[Bosher]

As far as the driver files are concerned. I used the HP driver which can accomodate both cards: this I extracted from CP005183

driver ver : 5.66.0.32

This contains info for both cards:

The contents of the sysprep .inf are at the bottom of this post:

I checked the HAL in computer management and they where bot the same. Is this check sufficient? or is there a more detailed process that you can advise on?

Cheers

sysprep.inf

**********************************

;SetupMgrTag

[unattended]

OemSkipEula=Yes

InstallFilesPath=C:\sysprep\i386

TargetPath=\WINNT

DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore

OemPnpDriversPath=Drivers\scsi

[sysprep]

BuildMassStorageSection=Yes

[GuiUnattended]

AdminPassword=

AutoLogon=Yes

AutoLogonCount=1

OEMSkipRegional=1

OEMDuplicatorstring="Citrix DL360 Base Win2K Server Build V 1.0 12NOV2004"

TimeZone=85

OemSkipWelcome=1

[userData]

Productid=

FullName="IT Infrastructure"

OrgName=

ComputerName=

[Display]

BitsPerPel=16

Xresolution=1024

YResolution=768

Vrefresh=60

[LicenseFilePrintData]

AutoMode=PerSeat

[RegionalSettings]

LanguageGroup=1

SystemLocale=00000809

UserLocale=00000809

InputLocale=0809:00000809

[setupMgr]

DistFolder=C:\sysprep\i386

DistShare=WinDist

[identification]

JoinWorkgroup=WORKGROUP

[Networking]

InstallDefaultComponents=Yes

[sysprepMassStorage]

PCI\VEN_0E11&DEV_B178&SUBSYS_40800E11="c:\drivers\scsi\cpqcissm.inf"

PCI\VEN_0E11&DEV_0046&SUBSYS_40910E11="c:\drivers\scsi\cpqcissm.inf

*******************************

[bhurtel]

you need to check both system

device manager --->> computer --->

Standard PC

Adv. Conf. And power ACPI PC

uniprocessor

Try upgrading ur HAL to ACPI pc

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[Bosher]

I have checked the HAL on both machines:

Boths are listed as ACPI Multiprocessor PC

Both are using halmacpi.dll

Both are the same version

I presume then that this excludes the HAL from my problem.

As for my sysprep.inf file above:

Any other mass storage section I have seen seems to have a lot more lines in than my own, am I missing something here????

Cheers

[Nepali]

lol