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“Nick B.” writes in microsoft.public.windows.developer.winfx.general on how to install and boot Longhorn on a RAID controller:

Dunno if this helps but you must make a sysprep.inf file and put it onto the manufacturers driver disk that came with your raid / sata / scsi controller. My device is a Silicon Image Sil3112 Raid controller for two SATA 150 drives. I am only using one, if I do not provide a sysprep.inf file I get a BSOD. All you need to do is create a text file with this line in it:

[SysprepMassStorage] pci\ven_1095&dev_3112=a:\Si3112r.inf

which follows this convention:

[SysprepMassStorage] DEVICE=PATH to INF File

Fo me I found the device ID in a file called TxtSetup.oem which was on the manufacturers driver disk. Then all you do is put this custom sysprep onto your disk and then the process is the same as on XP but on a black screen as opposed to a blue one.

Hope this was some use

Nickb