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From: | Web Clark (RR) |
Subject: | Re: Win2K Multi-Boot "Invalid BOOT.INI..." |
Date: | Fri, 28 Apr 2006 22:54:36 -0400 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) |
adrian15 wrote:
Thanks, I will. I also noticed that I have the partition numbers in the start of the mailnote off by one (count from 1 instead of 0), but they were done right in the system.dd copied (hd0,2) to (hd0,3) to make system for the kids, then modified boot.ini in the copy to point to the right partition (details below).--- --- When I boot (hd0,3) I get: Invalid BOOT.INI file Booting from C:\winnt\ NTDETECT failedI suppose that NT Boot code has saved somewhere the position where NTLDR is. I mean it does not search it.If I were you I will check this project to fix your hd0,3 wxp boot: http://ms-sys.sourceforge.net/(It is a tool for making something equivalent to fdisk /mbr or fixmbr or fixboot but you can specify the partition where to act.adrian15
I also learned through the "starman"s site which has disassembly of boot records (well known I hope, don't have it handy) that NT and XP partition boot records have their offset in sectors from the start of the volume as a 4 byte number at offset 0x1c-0x1f. This and the disk serial number are the only bytes different from my copied partition and clean install, which works. If I understand, the S/N is not functional and will not present a problem (We shall see!). I want to have an image I can copy around to restore though, not go through a reinstall everytime Windows gets messed up.
I will be trying to get them to run in "logical" partitions too so that I can have many Windows systems (one per child) bootable on the system, plus room for experimental Linux and FreeBSD (For me).
I will post a summary when I am done with what I learned and how I did it for other's reference.
--Ray
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