Re: Boot problem

Tech-Archive recommends: Fix windows errors by optimizing your registry

From: Teilhard Knight (teilhk_at_privacy.net)
Date: 11/24/04 

Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 22:30:20 -0600

"m.marien" <mm AT RiverCityCanada DOT com> wrote in message
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>
> "Teilhard Knight" <teilhk@privacy.net> wrote in message
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>> "Charles Brown" <CharlesBrown@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:2EE072C0-3D0D-43FC-88A5-CC5B31565792@microsoft.com...
>>>I forgot to add, when you boot back into the os you need to put the
>>>correct
>>> information back.
>>>
>>> Go to System32 directory and rename the wsaupdater.exe back to
>>> userinit.exe
>>> and change the Registry data back to this
>>> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
>>> &
>>> right Click on "Userinit" Modify data to
>>> C:\WINDOWS\system32\userinit.exe, <--Note the comma as well..
>>
>> I do not want to sound stubborn, I just want to make sure I made myself
>> clear. XP is booting all right. It is the server which is not. Just a
>> couple of simple questions: what you suggest me to do will fix the server
>> booting problem? And when you say: "reboot", I must reboot into XP?
>>
>> Thanks for the time you have taken to answer.
>>
>
> There are more then just the boot.ini file missing on the Win2003
> partition. ntldr and ntdetect.com are a couple of them. When you install a
> second Windows o/s for dual booting it leaves the boot files on the first
> partition and just adds a line to the boot.ini file as you found out. It
> also leaves the active partition as the first one. If you want the boot
> from the second partition, you'll have to add the missing files and change
> the active partition.

Yes, I knew as far as that. I supplied the NTLDR and the Ntdetect.com files
from the installation disk. I also added autoexec.bat, config.sys, Io.sys,
and others, althought they are 0 bytes.

> Your boot program may change the active partition but it probably didn't
> copy the files needed in the second partition. It also maybe hiding the
> first partition when it boots the second partition which may confuse
> Windows.

Yes, my boot loader changes the active partition all right to the one you
want to boot. Oviously it only boots OS's and does not supply files that
might be missing. But I supplied those files by hand. It might be very
possible I am leaving one or two out, but as far as I know, they are
complete.

> I dual boot several Linux distro's and Windows versions. I use GRUB as the
> boot loader. I don't mess with the Windows boot scheme. It works fine the
> way it is. I also don't like it when the boot loader keeps messing with
> the partition table. If it messes up it could wipe out the disk.

It is a good recommendation you give me to use GRUB. I do not know that boot
loader, but I can certainly test it.

> Does the boot manager explain how to add another o/s?

Yes, it's fairly easy. You just highlight the corresponding partition, give
it a name, and voila, you can boot the OS in that partition.

Thanks for your feedback. I'll research GRUB. 

-- 
Teilhard Knight
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