hey look! history repeats itself. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Russ Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Feb 2, 2005 3:14 PM Subject: Re: [9fans] XP boot To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <[email protected]>
it's much easier just to install smart boot manager and avoid the nt boot loader. hget http://pdos.lcs.mit.edu/~rsc/mbr.bootmgr disk/mbr -m mbr.bootmgr /dev/sdC0/data russ On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 18:16:43 +0100, boyd, rounin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any other method fails—boot.ini is protected by more than the NTFS > file protection scheme, and I don't believe there's another way around it. > > yes, it is a very strange file. i got some private mail from russ and after > finding boot.ini it was read only. turn that off and write it with notepad. > [seemingly] randomly it would turn on read only. > > there is this command line thing called 'bootcfg' which is absolutely > undecipherable, although i now understand something about the format > of the file by tinkering. > > boot.ini essentially points at a 'boot block'. i'm a bit wary about > [potentially] > smashing a currently bootable system. > > this will take some thought. > -- > MGRS 31U DQ 52572 12604 > >
