P3TDE6, hangs on boot from SCSI CDROM

This system has a SCSI CDROM and two IDE drives on a Promise RAID controller. At
boot time it recognizes a Windows 2000 server CDROM, and begins to run it. Then it
comes up with "Couldn't open the boot partition to check for a signature",
followed by "Setup is inspecting your computer's hardware configuration". The
system hangs at that point (no activity for more than 15 minutes).

I've tried two different CDROM drives and also tried putting one on a different
channel. Same results. However, if I plug in an IDE CDROM it runs just fine and
does not show the error about looking for a signature.

Is there a configuration setting that I can change to get this working ?

Just run your install with an IDE CDROM. I can probably guess why you
want to run a SCSI CD-ROM, but it shouldn't really make that much of a
difference during the install. I've had problems a few times in the
past installing from SCSI CD media too. Instead of wrestling with it, I
just use IDE. Once you get everything up and running, just switch over
to the SCSI drive. I've done this numerous times, and it has always
worked well...

Ed

George Pontis wrote:
 > This system has a SCSI CDROM and two IDE drives on a Promise RAID controller. At
 > boot time it recognizes a Windows 2000 server CDROM, and begins to run it. Then it
 > comes up with "Couldn't open the boot partition to check for a signature",
 > followed by "Setup is inspecting your computer's hardware configuration". The
 > system hangs at that point (no activity for more than 15 minutes).
 >
 > I've tried two different CDROM drives and also tried putting one on a different
 > channel. Same results. However, if I plug in an IDE CDROM it runs just fine and
 > does not show the error about looking for a signature.
 >
 > Is there a configuration setting that I can change to get this working ?<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->