Vista - How would I possibly get this work?

Hi all,

I have syspreped Windows 2003 OS VHD. With hyper-V, If I create one VM
which uses IDE controller and use syspreped windows 2003 OS VHD. the virtual
machine starts fine. If I create one VM which use SCSI controller and use
syspreped windows 2003 OS VHD, the VM can not start and got "Boot failure:
Reboot and Select proper Boot device or insert boot media in selected boot
device". After further investigation, I guess that I can not add SCSI in the
boot order.

In the future, I am going to use windows 2003 OS VHD on the SAN storage, How
would I bring this VM on line since I can not add other device in the boot
order.

I am totally lost now. Can anyone share what you have done to make VM with
OS VHD to start on the SAN storage?

I deperately need your help now.

You're correct - the OS needs to boot from an IDE controller. You can add
additional SCSI controllers and disks afterward.
Hope this helps,
--Ryan

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Ryan Sokolowski
MVP - Clustering
MCT, MCITP x3, MCTS x7, MCSE x2, CCNA, CCDA, BCFP


"John" <John@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Keep in mind that IDE/SCSI has no relationship to the underlying hardware -
they are just VHDs, after all. Where they reside is totally irrelevant to
what type you specify in any VM.

ALL VMs must use the virtaual IDE as the boot disk. The SCSI disk type isn't
recognized early enough in the process, since it requires that the
Integration Components be loaded.

--
Charlie.
http://msmvps.com/blogs/xperts64
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/charlie.russel

"John" <John@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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