I’ve been beating my head against the wall on this one for 2 days now. In case any of you have this same issue I will document what I did.
I was setting up to image about 30 HP6735B machines and after I would image one I kept getting an Invalid LBAI when I rebooted. Normally I would simply run gdisk32 /mbr and that would fix it. Now I did not set up the master machine as this was from a customer but as I investigated I finally figured out they had changed the BIOS setting for the Disk. The reason they did this is XP does not support the AMD SATA AHCI Controller unless you press F6 during install and add the AMD SATA AHCI Controller Driver. This is a pain to do because you need to have a floppy so it was easier for them to just change the BIOS.
Generally if you have this error you can just use gdisk or gdisk32 /mbr and that will fix it. Sometimes you will also have to use the switch /p that would be after the /mbr. Example: (gdisk32.exe 1 /mbr /p). The 1 stands for the disk number.
But in the HP 6735B it did not do it. So here is what I did to fix it.
First thing the configuration:
HP 6735B
Windows XP SP 3
Symantec GhostCast Server 11.5.0.2113
First thing you need to do is change the Bios.
See image below.
System Configuration / Device Configuration / SATA Device Mode.
Select IDE then Save, also click, File (on the left), Changes & Exit
Then you still need to run: gdisk32 1 /mbr /p
I also ran the ghostWalker to change the SID. This is really not needed if you are going to join these machines to a Domain but I do it anyway. What I did is create a BATCH file that I run after the ghosting is done. I called it walker.bat and here are the lines:
gdisk32.exe 1 /mbr /p
GhWalk32.exe /BV=1:1 /CN=”ELM-<RANDOM_HEX>” /SURE
BIOS Screen Shot
Is it possible to “power off” a suspended VM Workstation? Yes. I had this problem when I tried to resume a suspended VM on Workstation 6.5 and it kept getting an error. I knew there was nothing going on when I suspended it so I decided to just power it down. Well, there is no option for that.
What you have to do is go into the folder that contains the VM and delete or as I did rename the .vmss files. If you rename them make sure the name change is in or after the extension. Example: myvmfile.vmss.old. This essentially pulls the plug on the power. You should be able to boot up your VM now.
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Google just released their new phone the “Nexus One”. Seems like it is compatible or will be shortly with all major networks except AT&T. Verizon will be coming soon and it is unclear if it will work with Sprint or not. Actually if you just want to use the phone for voice calls and maybe use EDGE it will work fine but NO 3G data on AT&T. Who wants that?
Well then again who would want AT&T if you could get the phone on Verizon’s network anyway.
http://www.google.com/support/android/bin/answer.py?answer=166507
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Everyone is talking about the end of the decade. Actually, this is the last year of the first decade of the new century/millennium. Why do I say that?
I learned as a child that there is no 0 (zero) year. Why would this make a difference? If there was a zero year, 2009 would have been the last year of the first decade. Without the zero year 2010 is the last year of the first decade. This means the new decade does not start until 2011.
Still not sure you understand?
Count from 0 – 9. How many numbers are there? Ten, right? Now count from 1 – 9. How many numbers are there? Nine. How many years in a decade? Ten.
If you still don’t believe this here are some links to check out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_zero#Counting
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/980902d.html
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