Re: Win xp Dual boot help and advice needed!

From: Timothy Daniels (TDaniels_at_NoSpamDot.com)
Date: 02/03/05 

Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 10:36:42 -0800

"Uncle John" replied:>
> - "do you mean by "Disk 2 boots OK"? Does the system on the
> 2nd HD load itself and run in isolation?" YES -
> "The 2nd HD to boot alone, it must have a Master Boot Record." YES -
> "2) the OS on the 2nd HD is a clone of the OS on the 1st HD." YES -
>
> If I boot the second disk in isolation it loads OK.
> However if I have the boot.ini scripted so that I can choose to boot
> from either disk 0 or disk 1 the second disk when chosen loads but
> after initially presenting the Desktop Ok then loses the taskbar and
> the desktop is not useable.
>
> May be I have to use something like bootNg to have both disks bootable
> when Windows starts?

    Something is not working right because ntldr should be able to
    load and start any WinXP on any partition on any HD in the PC
    using the kb response to the boot.ini menu. To see if the OS is
    at least selected properly, you can put a folder in the center of
    the Desktop of each OS that has as a name something like
    WINXP ONE and WINXP TWO. Then select the OS in partition 2
    and see if the folder's name on the resulting Desktop coincides
    with the OS you selected.

    That you at least are getting a Desktop indicates that an OS
    began loading. Try removing the recovery console line from
    the boot.ini menu to simplify things.

*TimDaniels*

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Boot image on FlashDisk
    ... You'll also have to edit the autoexec.bat file to launch loadcepc ... Your bootloader loads the image into RAM, ... can't boot WINCE. ... Have you got a BSP ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsce.embedded)
  • Re: Boot image on FlashDisk
    ... You'll also have to edit the autoexec.bat file to launch loadcepc ... Your bootloader loads the image into RAM, ... can't boot WINCE. ... Have you got a BSP ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsce.embedded)
  • Re: A3000 Bot Errors and Retina Z2 Compatibility
    ... load some bootroms on to help a brother out. ... I have the original A3000 HD in, it loads the ROMs then Gurus. ... But due to whatever problems that HD would not boot to the workbench. ... Beta driver for it. ...
    (comp.sys.amiga.hardware)
  • Summary: Alternate boot disk on U10
    ... Thanks to the following for pointing out the out mistake in the devalias. ... Paul Richards ... I can boot from the second disk now. ...
    (SunManagers)
  • geom mirror
    ... I'm trying to get a geom mirror up and running on a remote server across ... at the boot block. ... # make sure the second disk is treated as a really fresh one ...
    (freebsd-stable)