I managed to fix it by re-creating the file on a floppy and copying it across in the repair mode - not you cant copy from the hdd to the floppy, but you can copy floppy to hdd.
Its all up and running at the moment using the Lilo config I found. Mike On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 12:26, you wrote: > 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/ -- ******************************************************** Mike Pearce - a man of Many Talents..... http://www.lightneasy.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mimeistrynz.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
