You may need to look at the boot BIOS, Check the boot device configuration.

Recreate the boot LUN entry using the correct settings.

what`s your hardware? HBA make n model... target device..?

Thanks and Regard
Ambarish.


"Li" wrote:

> I have set up Windows 2003 boot from SAN volumes successfully. Then one
> day after I deleted the O/S from the SAN volumes by deleting the
> snapshots from SAN console, I could not install Windows 2003 into the
> SAN volumes successfully. I keep getting the message as follows:
>
> "To install Windows on the partition you selected, setup must write some
> startup files to the following disk:
> 69877 MB Disk 0 at ID 0 on bus 2 on mraid 35x (MBR)
> However, this disk does not contain a windows-compatible partition."
>
> I got this message when coming to select which partition to install O/S
> and I selected to install the partition from SAN. Then I press Enter and
> it went back to the previous screen. But if I select the partition
> mention above (69877 MB Disk 0 at ID 0 on bus 2 on mraid 35x (MBR))which
> is actually the internal hard disk, then the installation could
> continue but it put boot.ini file, sysvol information folder, etc.. to
> the internal hard disk. We do not want anything in the internal hard
> disk. I used to be able to set up to boot into SAN with no problem and I
> am using the exact same steps I did before and nothing change. All of a
> sudden, I keep getting the above message. The installation just doesn't
> want to write certain files into SAN volumes. What happened? Does anyone
> have any idea? Any response will be greatly appreciated!!!
>

What kind of SAN? Is the volume a GPT volume or an MBR volume?


"Ambrish" wrote in message
news:F92CC52F-EF48-4678-8F21-DC455A0F0405@microsoft.com...
> You may need to look at the boot BIOS, Check the boot device
> configuration.
>
> Recreate the boot LUN entry using the correct settings.
>
> what`s your hardware? HBA make n model... target device..?
>
> Thanks and Regard
> Ambarish.
>
>
> "Li" wrote:
>
>> I have set up Windows 2003 boot from SAN volumes successfully. Then one
>> day after I deleted the O/S from the SAN volumes by deleting the
>> snapshots from SAN console, I could not install Windows 2003 into the
>> SAN volumes successfully. I keep getting the message as follows:
>>
>> "To install Windows on the partition you selected, setup must write some
>> startup files to the following disk:
>> 69877 MB Disk 0 at ID 0 on bus 2 on mraid 35x (MBR)
>> However, this disk does not contain a windows-compatible partition."
>>
>> I got this message when coming to select which partition to install O/S
>> and I selected to install the partition from SAN. Then I press Enter and
>> it went back to the previous screen. But if I select the partition
>> mention above (69877 MB Disk 0 at ID 0 on bus 2 on mraid 35x (MBR))which
>> is actually the internal hard disk, then the installation could
>> continue but it put boot.ini file, sysvol information folder, etc.. to
>> the internal hard disk. We do not want anything in the internal hard
>> disk. I used to be able to set up to boot into SAN with no problem and I
>> am using the exact same steps I did before and nothing change. All of a
>> sudden, I keep getting the above message. The installation just doesn't
>> want to write certain files into SAN volumes. What happened? Does anyone
>> have any idea? Any response will be greatly appreciated!!!
>>