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03-25-2003, 05:33 AM
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multi disk boot win98,win2000 & winxp pro
I want to have a multiple choice of which operating system to load at start up. At the moment I can choose between win98 & win 2000, these are installed on one of my hard drives on their own partitions, however I want to have the choice to boot from my other hard drive which has win xp pro installed, at the moment I have to go into bios and select which HD to boot from but this a bit of a pain. Can this be done? Here is my current boot.ini file.
[boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect C:\="Microsoft Windows 98" C:\CMDCONS\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Recovery Console" /cmdcons Thanks in advance |
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03-25-2003, 09:33 AM
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Assuming your other hard drive is on the Secondary controller, as master, add this to the boot.ini:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect Last edited by reboot; 03-25-2003 at 09:37 AM. |
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03-25-2003, 03:35 PM
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Thanks for your reply. I have xp pro on the master hard drive and win98 & win 2000 as slave on the same controller. My secondary controller has a dvd & cd-rw on it, can it be done with this configuration?
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03-26-2003, 11:32 AM
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Bump
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03-26-2003, 11:56 AM
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Then add this:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect |
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03-26-2003, 01:07 PM
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When I added the above to the boot.ini and rebooted I get this error message "windows 2000 could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt
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03-26-2003, 01:57 PM
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Hmmmm...depends on how XP was installed.
If XP has a boot.ini, then you need to modify IT to reflect the other two OS's, and you would boot to the primary master (HDD-0) in BIOS. It should then look like this: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\WINNT [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows 98" C:\CMDCONS\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Recovery Console" /cmdcons multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect Not sure that the repair console boot line will work though, because it won't be C: You could try modifying that line to read: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\CMDCONS\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Recovery Console" /cmdcons Last edited by reboot; 03-26-2003 at 02:05 PM. |
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