Re: blinking cursor

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From: Greenthumb (aballard_at_ix.netcom.com)
Date: 01/31/05 

Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 01:00:31 GMT

Win 2000 is installed on C drive, the first partition on the first
drive of three. It is the only OS on the computer.

I've not edited an ini since Windows for Workgroups, and then
only for minor things. My thinkpad does not have a boot.ini
so your example is all I have to go by.

Looking at your generic ini:

[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\winnt
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\winnt="Windows 0,1"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\winnt="Windows 0,2"
multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\winnt="Windows 1,1"
multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(2)\winnt="Windows 1

That's greek to me.

I looked around the internet a bit and tried this one:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\Windows="Windows" /fastdetect

Still the message:
....the following file is missing or corrupt:
<Windows 2000 Root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
Please re-install a copy of the above file.

I am making hash of this.

Allan Ballard

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 17:04:00 -0700, "Dave Patrick"
<mail@Nospam.DSPatrick.com> wrote:

>Accuracy is the key to your solution. If you got the message;
>
>Windows NT could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
>\System32\Ntoskrnl.exe
>
>then you need to try all four of the boot options. I don't have any idea
>what drive and or partition your OS is installed on hence the generic
>boot.ini

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