Dude, find a nice person with an install of NT/2K and mount your harddrive in their machine, altho' NTFS is a good idea, things like this are often a good reason to run FAT16/32 on your boot partition.
If you get stuck you're most welcome to chuck your drive in my windoze machine. Jeremy. -----Original Message----- From: Mike Pearce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 26 October 2001 3:49 p.m. To: linux Subject: Re: Booting hdb using Lilo. I can recommend against the following... I just spent the last 40minutes trying to edit the &^%%$ boot.ini file to recover from the problems it caused... and windows2000 still isnt working!!! They dont even have a simple line editor in the recovery options!!! Not one that I could find anyhow. Will investigate further at a later date... if I get it running again. Mike. On Fri, 26 Oct 2001 14:19, you wrote: > On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Yuri DeGroot wrote: > > Are you saying that the windoze kernel/bootloader > > is not even able to boot unless it thinks it's > > on the primary master drive?? > > actually, the problem isn't with winnt/2000/xp - it's simply that Mike > didn't edit the 'boot.ini' on the drive to reflect the changed drives (he > initially had that drive as hda during > install) > > [boot loader] > timeout=5 > default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS > [operating systems] > multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows 2000 > Professional" /fastdetect > > < you need to change the rdisk value > > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - >--- > > |o John Davis phone:+64-3-3642461 mobile:+64-25-6223326 fax:+64-3-3642110 > | o| o [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | o| o (Depart)mental Programmer,Chemistry Department > | o| o University of Canterbury,Christchurch, New Zealand > | o| o NZ Climbing Info - > | http://www.geocities.com/nzclimbing/ o| -- ------------------- Linux is the future!! http://www.linux.org/
