How to Install LNM on a mass storage controller
Purpose & Scope
When you are installing Microsoft Learning Network Manager on a new computer or on a computer that has the latest SCSI, SATA or IDE controller technology, you may have to use an OEM device driver to support, for example, a new mass storage controller, to continue with the installation. The symptoms that you have to install an OEM device driver include the following:
- The computer may keep restarting and never start the GUI installation after the text mode Setup is finished.
- The Setup program may stop, and you may receive an error message if the Setup program does not correctly detect the controller.
- You may receive the following error message: Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your system. This behavior may also occur after you update the firmware or the BIOS of a supported SCSI controller if the update causes incompatibility with the SCSI driver that is included with Windows.
MORE INFORMATION
During the text-mode phase of the setup process, LNM pauses briefly and prompts you to press F6. This option is displayed in the status line and lets you use an OEM mass storage controller driver. The F6 option is provided strictly as a means to install OEM drivers for mass storage controllers only. This is required to let the installation of the operating system continue. Microsoft does not support using F6 to install any device driver other than mass storage controller drivers.
Use of an OEM driver is limited to installing a driver that is not natively supported or that does not match a driver that is included with Windows. If you use a newer version of an OEM driver, and this new OEM driver has the same name or Plug and Play Identifier as a driver that is included with Windows, the Setup program ignores the new OEM driver and uses the driver that is included with Windows. Therefore, you receive the error message that is quoted in the Summary.
If you press F6 when you are prompted, you receive a screen that requires you to have the appropriate driver on a floppy disk and to insert the disk into the floppy disk drive to load the driver.
Procedure
- Copy the driver to a floppy diskette's root directory.
- Boot from LNM CD/DVD, when Learning Network Manager setup screen appear and prompt to press F6 if you need to install third party SCSI or RAID drive, please press F6 Key.
- The setup program will continue, later when the setup program prompt to specify additional adapters, please press S.
- Then the setup program will prompt to insert the driver diskette. Please insert the driver diskette you created above, and then press Enter to continue.
- The follow-up window will list out the installation choices, please select your driver and press Enter to continue.
- Press S if you want to install another driver or press Enter to continue LNM setup
Additional Comments
Applies to LNM 2005