How to debug Vista's installation on raid

NTDEV
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Hi friends,

I have a FastTrak SX4100 HBA and I have used it to create a logical raid of SATA disks. Then I begin to install Vista on my raid.
After inputting serial number and selecting my debugging raid driver, the installation begins to “copy files” and completes with the result “100%” .
Then the installation comes to “expand files” stage. It is strange that this stage is always at 0% or 1%. It seems my stor miniport driver meets trouble.
Now since the Windows OS has not been installed, can I use windbg to debug? If I can, then how? If not, then what else can I do?

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If Vista has not been installed completely, can not use windbg to debug your driver. So, you can install the driver on a Vista which was installed well and test your driver. If your driver can work well on Vista, then try to install Vista using your driver.

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Good idea. Let me have a try first. Thank you!

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Now I have made some progress.
I have installed Vista on my raid by using a scsi miniport driver of former version successfully. Then I replace the driver with my new stor miniport driver. Now I can begin to resolve the arisen problems.
I hope this way I can resolve my Vista installation problems finally. I will come back when I have any new results. Thank you very much!

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I’m not sure that this is true. It may be, but at least prior to
Vista/Longhorn, it was possible to debug an installation of the CHECKED
build. It’s documented in the WinDbg help under “Advanced Debugging
Techniques.” That being said, I’m not sure how to do this under Vista,
but my guess would be to hit F8 as early as possible in the boot
process, as I have seen that bring up a screen with boot options,
although I don’t know if Debug is among them.

Hopefully someone on this list can comment more authoritatively than I
on this subject.

Good luck,

mm

xxxxx@yahoo.com.cn wrote:

If Vista has not been installed completely, can not use windbg to debug your driver. So, you can install the driver on a Vista which was installed well and test your driver. If your driver can work well on Vista, then try to install Vista using your driver.