Re: Multiple Versions at Boot

From: Ron Sommer (rsommer_at_nospam.ktis.net)
Date: 02/16/05 

Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 21:55:05 -0600

Hi,
I have XP Home and I don't have Performance and Maintenance.
I also don't have bootcfg available from a cmd prompt.

I tried contacting Microsoft. I get
This Service is Currently Not Available 

-- 
Ron Sommer
"R. C. White" <rc@corridor.net> wrote in message 
news:u0ek6H9EFHA.624@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Hi, Ron.
>
> Yes, I see what you mean.  I'll try to get the attention of the MSFT folks 
> who maintain the KB.  Not only is this specific line wrong, but there are 
> a few other parts of the article that need to be cleaned up.  Like, for 
> instance, MY control panel does not have a "Performance and Maintenance" 
> tool; does yours?  And the article implies that it is a simple matter to 
> add Win2K to an existing WinXP installation; in my experience, it's not 
> simple at all, because when Win2K Setup spots WinXP's version of NTLDR and 
> NTDETECT.COM, it refuses to install Win2K.  (But I haven't tried to 
> reinstall Win2K in years, so maybe my memory about this is not correct.)
>
> Of course, you (and any other user) can also comment by using the feedback 
> section at the bottom of the article.
>
> If I get a response to my request for a change in KB 289022, I'll try to 
> remember to come back here and update this thread.
>
> In the meantime, any reader who refers to KB article 289022 should note 
> the error.  The "disk(1)" in this line in the "after" version of the 
> sample boot.ini file is wrong:
> multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Professional" 
> /fastdetect
>
> It should say:
> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Professional" 
> /fastdetect
>
> The computer probably would not boot until the error is corrected.  :>(
>
> Thanks for pointing that out, Ron.
>
> RC
> -- 
> R. C. White, CPA
> San Marcos, TX
> rc@corridor.net
> Microsoft Windows MVP
>
> "Ron Sommer" <rsommer@nospam.ktis.net> wrote in message 
> news:%23HcOa61EFHA.3244@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>> RC,
>> This Knowledge Base article has a similar error to the one Sam had.
>> http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q289/0/22.asp
>> The disk value changed from 0 to 1 for the original system and the 
>> default system doesn't match any of the operating systems because of the 
>> disk value change.
>> Do you know how to contact Microsoft to get the article fixed?
>> -- 
>> Ron Sommer
>>
>> "R. C. White" <rc@corridor.net> wrote in message 
>> news:%23ciVfvxEFHA.1084@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>>> Hi, Sam.
>>>
>>> Yes, as Ron Sommer said, and as the computer gods have decreed (Who 
>>> knows why?), counting of your hard drives begins with zero.  But 
>>> counting the partitions starts with one on each hard drive.  (Some other 
>>> time we'll discuss rdisk() and why partitions() includes logical drives 
>>> in the extended partition.)
>>>
>>> In boot.ini, the bottom portion, under [operating systems], should list 
>>> all the Microsoft operating systems that you have installed, with one 
>>> line each. You can have only a single MS-DOS or Win9x/ME installation 
>>> (referred to with the C:\="Microsoft Windows 98" kind of line), plus one 
>>> or more instances of WinNT4, Win2K, WinXP and perhaps others (Windows 
>>> 2003 Server, Longhorn, etc.), mix and match.  The Default line in the 
>>> top portion, under [Boot Loader], should echo one of those operating 
>>> system lines.  My first reply correctly showed rdisk(0), but your next 
>>> post showed rdisk(1) - which didn't work.
>>>
>>> If you'd like to understand more about the Boot.ini file, you might like 
>>> to read this part of the online version of the Windows XP Professional 
>>> Resource Kit:
>>> Reviewing and Correcting Boot.ini Settings on x86-based Systems
>>> http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prmc_str_masc.asp
>>>
>>> Sometimes these URLS don't land on exactly the page I have in mind.  If 
>>> you get lost, it's in Chapter 28 of the RK.
>>>
>>> RC
>>> -- 
>>> R. C. White, CPA
>>> San Marcos, TX
>>> rc@corridor.net
>>> Microsoft Windows MVP
>>>
>>
>

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