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Info on XP boot files
Jerry Lippey/MVP JLip...@compuserve.com microsoft public win3x_wfw_dos I can nolonger boot MSDOS. It hangs after the message "Starting MS-DOS" appears. This happens both when I attempt to boot from the hard disk and when I attempt to boot from floppy. What happens, Bruce, if you press F5 when you see "Starting

kernel update: cannot detemine boot device
That IS the first disk! other=/dev/hda2 Another boot of NT. label=NT2 table=/dev/hda2 This is surely wrong? Should be hda! map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe Why have you got 2 NT stanzas? Are you booting 2 different versions of XP? Well, both the NT entries look to

multi OS boot CD
Here is what I know of the MBR and partition boot sectors. "Fdisk /mbr" will restore Microsoft "boot code" to the Master Boot Record of the boot HDD, usually the Primary Master. (This perhaps should not be done, if you have a drive overlay in the MBR or if you suspect a boot sector virus.

Dual Boot the real double way?
Jeff Middleton j...@cfisolutions.com microsoft public backoffice smallbiz h<gnosing a boot problem that you didn't see 'break' involves first determining what kind of boot problem is involved. NT will fail to boot for a variety of reasons that move through a sequence of steps.

Unable to boot windows 2000
Don d.burne...@clothes.comcast.net microsoft public windows 64bit general Just installed Vista Boot Pro. When I launch it , the first thing I get is a warning message as follows: " VistaBootPro has detected that Vista is either not installed or is installed on a hidden drive. You may experience minor problems using

-=Boot Separate Linux Partitions Using Lilo=-
DC dav...@sia.net.au microsoft public win98 gen_discussion This refers to the MBR (Master Boot Record) which is one per physical HD. There is also DBR (Dos Boot Record now called Partition Boot Record) of which there is one per partition. See http://cma.zdnet.com/book/upgraderepair/ch22/ch22.htm for more info.

Unable to Boot up
Rod Smith rodsm...@speaker.rodsbooks.com comp os linux setup In article <23403e52.0106250748.1b42a...@posting.google.com>, y...@pragerfenton-la.com (BkrStMuse) writes: Hello, I am having problems getting my dual boot machine to work just right. I have windows on hda and Linux on hdb with LILO on the MBR.

boot loader problems with mix of wd and da
When I select Linux, LILO screen comes with Windows and Linux boot options as defined in above /etc/lilo.conf file. When I select Linux from LILO menu, Linux actually boots then. I can also boot Windows from LILO GUI. Is it possible at this stage that while boot.ini dual boot options comes, when I select Linux,

Dual boot NT/ Win98 set up problem
On newer CD's the images on slice 2 and above only contain boot redirects to slice 1. To create a CD that is bootable on Sun sparc systems you need to have the boot images for the apropriate sparc architecture. A boot image file usually is a UFS filesystem image that contains the primary boot image at byte offset

XP will not boot without floppy boot disk
compact # Installs the specified file as the new boot sector # install=/boot/boot-bmp.b # Specifies the location of the map file # map=/boot/map # You can set a password here, and uncomment the `restricted' lines # in the image definitions below to make it so that a password must # be typed to boot anything but a

cvs commit: src/sys/boot/arm/at91 Makefile Makefile.inc linker.cfg ...
count zero f...@bar.com alt os linux mandrake newsreader2k wrote: I installed Mandrake Linux 10 on a system that already had 2 WinXP dual boots installed on separate partitions. (one for Games & one for Apps) . Mandrake is on a third partition. By default, the LILO boot menu was installed during installation.

Boot problem
I loaded the RC disk at boot up and read the information on the screen. Most of the warning messages were serious in nature talking about potential loss of information/data, etc. I felt that using the RC console at the moment was beyond my technical capacity so I stopped the program. Since my system still boots to

kernel update: cannot detemine boot device
John Baldwin j...@FreeBSD.org bsdmailinglist jhb 2008-02-28 17:08:05 UTC FreeBSD src repository Modified files: sys/boot/i386/boot2 boot2.c sys/boot/i386/gptboot gptboot.c Log: Rev 1.72 fixed a bug where if /boot.config changed the console its contents weren't displayed on the new console. However, the config string

LILO Boot error
todo: updated * rescue: checker script added to source area by Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <edmu...@rano.org>; f5.txt consistency fix Files: 316b770da6fee3b75989e906409fabf7 529 devel extra boot-floppies_2.2.7.dsc 8b18266a912c511984a43487ce7921f9 2189461 devel extra boot-floppies_2.2.7.tar.gz

OSR504 boot STOPS after "Loading kernel ... .text"
The key is in your paragraph that says: If I do a clean install to each disk (with only it in the system as the C drive) so both drives have boot records. Then modify the boot record of the Windows 98Se drive to look for a Windows2000 in the D drive - can I then swap drives around? In fact, I would install Win2K

Help Dual Boot Problem
Holger Bruenjes holgerbruen...@gmx.net spline eisfair Hallo Am 2008-02-17 21:32, schrieb Karl Zeitler: df set -- `df | grep "/boot$"` boot=$1; echo "boot ist $boot" auf der Konsole? das obige script zeigt bei mir für $boot nichts an, die backticks habe ich mit alt 96 eingegeben. zuerst wollte ich mit joe ein script

cvs commit: src/sys/boot/uboot Makefile src/sys/boot/uboot/common ...
Took a little time to write the boot.ini file in Notepad. Wanted to be sure I didn't make any mistakes so went over it three times to be sure. Will use the disk after the close of business today and let you know what happens. Thanks "John John" wrote: Ok, being that you are a bit reluctant to use the Recovery

Dual boot question
First, go into your C:\ and remove the hidden and system attributes on boot.ini. Next, get a fresh floppy and copy (you can use an ME boot for this)these files to it from C:\: boot.ini ntldr ntdetect.com These are the W2k boot process files. Now try booting from that floppy, as is. (BIOS of course must look first

Multi-boot success and Solaris Logon problem
There's no boot.ini but boot._ file under /i386. The file is binary anyway. What do you think? The question is weird. The boot._ file does not expand to boot.ini, it does in fact not at all expand with expand.exe. To me it looks as something other than a compressed boot.ini file. It is not applicable to want to

OS/2 and Linux dual boot
But he really wishes to dual boot (he did not know he could), and wants both drives installed at the same time. Normally this would be easy: Install Windows on the first drive, install Linux on the second, and have LILO select which to boot. But he does not wish to re-install Linux because he has a running system