Did you remove the read only attribute on the boot.ini? - attrib -r -s -h then make your change and save, then reapply the attributes - attrib +r +s +h You should be able to boot into the recovery console and change the file within there.
----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "NT 2000 Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 5:55 PM Subject: PAE and issues with W2K Advanced Server with SP2 > Hi All, > > We got a HP LXr8500 server last week with 8 CPU and 8GB RAM along with > W2K Advanced Server. I installed W2K after setting it up with the 8CPUs > and 8GB RAM, not realising that I have to update the boot.ini file. I > realised this only when I looked at the taskmanager for someother reason. > > Going through the help, I realised that I have to update the boot.ini > file for the OS to recognize the rest of the 8GB, ie, 4GB RAM. > > I changed the boot.ini by adding /PAE to the line : > multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0) > partition(2)\WINNT="Windows 2000 Advanced Server" /basevideo /sos > > I rebooted the server for the changes to take effect, but instead of > the server coming it Hung on one of the System Startup screen which has > a progress bar. > > Does anyone have any idea as to what is going in ? > > Thanks > > > > > > > > ------ > You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------ You are subscribed as [email protected] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
