What's in the boot.ini if there is only 1 entry you won't get offered a choice and if its target doesn't exist the boot will fail
How far into the boot does it get before restarting can you list the drivers etc loaded during a safe mode boot have you used the other OS to look at the boot.ini and the log from the boot attempt? Is the partition FAT or NTFS JimB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 9:01 AM Subject: Re: Win2K reboots before it finishes loading > Thanks everyone. I'm used to Win9x where it just reports new > hardware. > > Toshiba claims to have had no installation issues with Win2k on > the Tecra 520 and the only functional issue was USB because the > wrong driver was loaded and MS was going to fix that. > > Safe mode did the same thing with a boot loop. The only thing I > found that sounded similar was a drive space or dblspace > problem. > > I'll put the Win2K drive back in and see if I can boot from the > floppy drive and see what I can find out. > > > Minimum RAM requirement for Win2K is 32MB: > > http://snipurl.com/yptt > > > > The Tecra 520 isn't on the Win2K HCL: > > http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hcl/search.mspx > > > > and Toshiba doesn't list drivers newer than Windows 98 and > > Windows NT. I wouldn't hold my breath but you do have enough RAM > > to attempt a clean install of Win2K. > > > > Carl > > > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html > Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page > http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html > > -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html
