m.nuttall@??? wrote:
> Quoting Chris Dennis <cgdennis@???>:
>
>> m.nuttall@??? wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Sorry for sticking a windows problem in here but i have tried all the
>> windows
>>> email groups i am on and so I am hoping for a different perspectice to
>> solve
>>> this problem.
>>>
>>> I have been quad (w2k,xp suse and syllable )booting windows 2000 and
>> windows xp
>>> professional for 3 years but in the last 3 days
>>> it decided to not work.
>>>
>>> The problem I narrowed down to the ntldr (ntloader) file. If i take
>>> the windows 2000 ntldr created by a repair install and then back it up.
>> Then
>>> repair install xp pro and backup the Xntldr file. I have discovered that i
>> can
>>> get either os to boot up by restoring its own version of the ntldr file.
>>>
>>> I however cannot have one ntldr file boot both systems. ie it only boots
>>> with its own ntldr file.
>>>
>>> I would expect windows 2000 ntldr to not boot xp pro but ntldr for xp
>>> pro has in the past booted both systems until now.
>> Yes, ntldr should be able to boot anything, including Linux. Do both
>> W2000 and WXP have the same idea of which partition is C: ?
>
> yes i have checked that c is the same partition in both oses.
>
>> And what's
>> in C:\boot.ini
>
> I don thave to touch boot.ini to get anything to work so i would of thought that
> would suggest that its correct.
OK, so what is actually giving you the choice of OS? Grub, or LILO, or
the Windows boot mechanism?
You also mentioned that it worked until a few days ago. What changed?
Just in case though:
>
>
> [boot loader]
> timeout=7
> default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(2)\WINDOWS
> [operating systems]
> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
> s:" /fastdetect
> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)\WINDOWS="PATA Windows XP Professional F:"
> /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
> C:\="Microsoft Windows ME"
The default entry doesn't match any of the others, which must be wrong,
but that would only matter if you're actually using boot.ini.
>
>
> windows 2K is the second partition.
> XP is on 4th partition
>
> thanks
>
> Martin N
>
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