Dominus wrote:Now I'm puzzled and don't understand. Will need to look myself to see what's different/not correctly installed
As a followup, I compared the md5 checksums of the resulting files if I installed U7SI with INSTALL.EXE versus the manual install. The md5 checksums were equivalent.
Then I noticed that some files were being placed in the root directory (i.e., the C:\ directory, not the C:\SERPENT directory). At one point I saw a MAINBOOT file after using INSTALL.EXE. And at another point I saw a FILELIST.CFG file (although I'm not quite sure at what point that was generated). They were both 1kb binary files that had no human readable content.
The strange thing is that if I place either file into the root directory of my U7SI manual install that did not work before, it suddenly starts working.
Anyway, it appears that the correct installation procedure creates extra files that the manual install does not. And then the SI.EXE program checks for the presence of those files and if it doesn't find them, aborts.