Re: Boot to dos prompt?
From: Steve Wilson (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/17/04
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Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 13:20:08 -0700
>-----Original Message-----
>Steve -
>- boot.ini is a hidden readonly system file in the root
dir. Remove
>those attributes to see/edit it.
>
>- edit boot.ini with notepad, it's just ordinary text.
>
>- I can't tell from the thread so far, but if the system
on the
>partition is a working system, you might be able to start
it by (on some
>other W2k system, MUST be W2k) formatting a diskette,
then copying 3
>files to it, taking it to your machine, and booting from
it. Then copy
>the working boot.ini to the hard drive. The 3 files are:
> boot.ini
> ntldr
> ntdetect.com
>
>- within boot.ini, "multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)" mean the
first of each type
>of disk support hardware; "partition(1)" means the first
partition on
>the drive being pointed to. All 4 values are the most
typical (for the
>active partition on the primary master hard drive.)
>
>- often when a boot reports ntoskrnl is missing it's
because boot.ini is
>pointing to the wrong rdisk or partition. Or the system
isn't completely
>installed. You may want to experiment with those boot.ini
values, which
>are explained in many places on the net.
>
>Steve Wilson wrote:
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>
>>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>
>>>>"Steve Wilson" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>
>>>
>>>wrote in message
>>>
>>>>news:321601c49ba7$50529690$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>>>>
>>>>>Hi- I am getting an error pertaining to ntoskrnl.exe
>>>
>>>being
>>>
>>>>>missing. I need to alter the boot.ini file but I
can't
>>>>>get past the error.
>>>>>Is it possible to boot the machine up and go directly
>>
>> to
>>
>>>>>dos?
>>>>>Thanks.
>>>>
>>>>When you write "DOS Prompt", you probably mean the
>>>>Command Prompt. This is a child process under Windows -
>>>>it cannot run without Windows.
>>>>
>>>>If your system partition is FAT32 then you can boot
your
>>>>machine with a DOS boot disk from www.bootdisk.com
>>>>and edit boot.ini.
>>>>
>>>>If your system partition is NTFS then you have to
>>
>> install
>>
>>>your
>>>
>>>>disk temporarily as a slave disk in some other
Win2000/XP
>>>>machine to edit boot.ini.
>>>>
>>>>You could also reboot the machine with your Win2000 CD,
>>>>get into the Command Console, then replace boot.ini
with
>>
>> a
>>
>>>>version that you supply on floppy disk.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>.
>>>>Thanks for the advice- I'll give it a try.
>>>
>>>.
>>>I was able to get the pc to bbot up with the dos boot
>>
>> disk and I can move around in dos. However, I cannot
seem
>> to find the boot.ini file, nor can I run the 'edit'
>> command. Also, I have copied the ntoskrnl.exe file
into
>> \windows\system32 but I still get the same error.
>> I'm stumped as I can't seem to get pst the error when
>> loading Windows which would seem to indicate I can't
even
>> run the recovery console form the installation cd.
>>
>> Any help/suggestions would be rgeatly appreciated.
>> Thanks.
>
>.
>Dan- excellent information and I wll give it a try.
Thank you so much for you help.
Steve.
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