Re: Boot problem

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

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    "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. 

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Teilhard Knight
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