Microsoft KB Archive/155407

= Setting Up Windows NT on Motorola PowerStack When Drive Is New =

Article ID: 155407

Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition
 * Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q155407



SUMMARY
This article describes the steps necessary to install Windows NT on a Motorola PowerStack computer, when the drive is new or has been low-level formatted. When all boot information on the drive is missing, the system will display the following information when the computer is started:

  AutoBoot about to begin.. Press  to Bypass,  to Continue Scanning System for Attached Mass Storage Devices Attempting BOOT from Device(s) of Type = FDISK Attempting BOOT from Device(s) of Type = CDROM Attempting BOOT from Device(s) of Type = TAPE Attempting BOOT from Device(s) of Type = HDISK

Autoboot Failed PPC1-Diag>

If your computer is in this state, follow the instructions below.



MORE INFORMATION
The following materials must be available before beginning:


 * PPC Boot Disk (Available from Motorola)
 * Arcinst.exe (Available from Motorola)
 * FW.IMG on disk (Available from Motorola)
 * Windows NT compact disc (Available from Microsoft)

 Start the computer from the PPC boot disk. When the firmware loads:  Insert the disk that has Arcinst.exe in the floppy disk drive. Select Run a Program.  In Program to Run type the following:

<pre class="fixed_text">a:\arcinst </li> Press Enter.</li></ol> </li> Select Configure Partitions.</li>  Select Create PowerPC Boot Partition. If more than one SCSI bus is available, select the appropriate SCSI bus. You will receive the following message:

<pre class="fixed_text">Partition successfully created. Press any key to continue...

The partition will be automatically formatted. Then the following message will be displayed:

<pre class="fixed_text">Partition formatted successfully. Press any key to continue </li>  Press a key; the following prompt is shown:

<pre class="fixed_text">Enter pathname for the PowerPC BootLoader:

Insert the disk with the correct Fw.img file into the floppy disk drive and type:

<pre class="fixed_text">a:\fw.img

The following messages will be shown:

<pre class="fixed_text">Reading ARC from: multi(1)disk(0)fdisk(0)\fw.img Load Image Size = 288000 Press any key to continue...

Boot Software Copied Successfully. Press any key to continue...

Successfully installed PowerPC Boot Loader. </li> On the ARCINST menu select Create Partition. If required, select the appropriate SCSI bus.</li>  At the "Enter the size in MB (1-1000):" prompt, type the size for the system partition; this will typically be 10 MB. The following message is displayed:

<pre class="fixed_text">Partition successfully created. Press any key to continue...

You will get this prompt:

<pre class="fixed_text">Do you want to make this the system partition (y/n)?

Type 'y' (without quotation marks) and press ENTER. The partition will be automatically formatted. The "Partition formatted successfully" message will be displayed again. Press any key to continue. </li> Quit ARCINST.</li>  On the firmware menu, select the "Run a program" option and type:

<pre class="fixed_text">cd:\ppc\setupldr </li> Windows NT Setup will start. Setup can be used to partition the remainder of the drive and install a new copy of Windows NT.</li></ol>

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