[geeks] latest system monitoring for Solaris 10 x86

[nate at portents.com]

>> http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
>
> I made two CDs with this and also the related UBCDWINDOWS, neither of
> which would boot on the T105.  I suspect the issue is the all-SATA
> motherboard, or some other support issue.

Could you be more vague than to say, "the all-SATA motherboard"?  That
statement isn't really useful in any way, since there are plenty of
"all-SATA" motherboards that will boot UBCD and BartPE, but more
importantly, BartPE isn't a fixed quantity since you can slipstream in any
drivers you might need when you build BartPE (i.e. I've used BartPE to
migrate data from one hardware RAID array to another hardware RAID array
by including the drivers for the different RAID controllers in BartPE). 
You could explain what drivers you did (or didn't) slipstream into the
BartPE you built and how exactly it failed to boot if you wanted to share
something useful.

> It comes with a CD that installs several known operating systems, and
> I believe it works by running Linux first and then inserting drivers
> needed to get Windows to boot.

Yeah, they do that to work around providing different Windows install
discs with slipstreamed drivers or have customers use the F6 driver load
during install method.  So while Vista includes AHCI support (the SATA
controller mode that supports things like hot-swap and NCQ) XP doesn't
unless you slipstream in the appropriate drivers, i.e. if you PC BIOS has
your SATA controller in AHCI or RAID mode XP (2002 or 2003, 32-bit or
64-bit) will not be able even see your hard drives unless you use the F6
driver load method, or slipstream, or use Dell's method of using Linux to
preload the appropriate drivers for the Windows installer to use.

- Nate