Well, my only remaining idea is that partition 2 is too high
on the drive. The NT boot is affected by both the size
and the beginning of the partition that has the nt directory.
If there's a simple way to tell what the limits are on
a particular system, I don't know what it is. The NT
documentation is contradictory. Nevertheless, there
seems to be at least a potential problem if either the
partition is over 4 (or 2 or 8) gigabytes and/or begins
above the 4 (or 2 or 8) gigabyte boundary on the disk.
I boot from a partition greater than 4gb on one of the
two machines I work regularly on (a pentium pro), though
it begins near the front with only about 500k below it
on the drive.
I failed trying to boot both new Celeron machines from
partitions larger than 4 GB (at the beginning of the
drive), but I have to say I didn't experiment to see
how much larger. Both Sean and Dave booted successfully
from 13 GB partitions (grown to that size with PM after
installing NT on a smaller partition). Apparently there
is a combination of bios and disk size at work here,
but I don't know how to sort it out.
Do you not have an NT setup (which was supposed to be
the backup, right?) bootable from IDE2? One that
you know will actually boot, I mean. Try putting
that one in the boot.ini file on IDE1. At least if
there's a problem you know it isn't from the bios.
>>Then again maybe you are a very successful 30 yr old
Oh, I'm 30 years old, all right. That and more. Lots
more. Lots lots more <g>. Liked it so much the first
time, I've nearly done it again.
That very successful part, though, well, my wife would
probably have a few thousand well-chosen words to say
on that score <gg>.
>>Next year, this time, lookout WALL ST
Yeah, look out. That roadkill out there near the
yellow line is me. The one with the MASH prints on it
right next to the Superdot marks ... |
