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To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (6290)	2/15/1999 12:34:00 AM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Primary (IDE?) OS loader I never had to select anything in OSloader to boot to wnt before. When did the OS loader appear?? When you got the system and you booted the first harddrive did the OS loader appear then? or did the OS loader on the primary boot only appear after you did the restore on the second harddrive? Under Start/settings/system/Startup..Shutdown.. what does it show for options? BTW..have have I used proper terminology in past posts?? Is the primary drive IDE0 and the second channel IDE1?? Zeuspaul

To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (6290)	2/15/1999 12:55:00 AM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

NT boot.ini for comparison Here (below) is my NT boot.ini for comparison. This should be similar to the one on your second harddrive. I installed NT over Win95..NT set up the dual boot as part of the process. Note the 30 second delay..this is the same 30 sec that I see in the system/startup..shutdown options. I do not understand why you have a 0 second delay?? how do you make a choice to boot primary if it defaults to something else and you have a 0 second delay?? What does 0 stand for in WINNT0? is it a directory name? It sure does look to my untrained eye like you have a single boot setup in primary boot.ini ( ie zero second delay with one option) with a reference to the wrong OS..just like you indicate. Zeuspaul _____________________________ Zeuspaul's boot.ini [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00" multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00 [VGA mode]" /basevideo /sos C:\ = "Microsoft Windows" _____________________________________ Clarence's boot.ini [boot loader] timeout=0 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT0 ______________________________________

To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (6290)	2/15/1999 1:13:00 AM
From: Zeuspaul	Respond to of 14778

rdisk? What does it mean? NT help find comes up blank..someone at MS must have been snoozing.<g> Note the difference rdisk(1) vs rdisk(0)..reference? disk?? should it be rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT?? Zeuspaul

To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (6290)	2/15/1999 10:08:00 AM
From: Spots	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

[boot loader] timeout=0 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT0 NO you can't just change WINNT to WINNT0. That rdisk(1) means the second hard drive (IDE2). That's the entire boot.ini file? Whole thing? You're sure<g>? I'm not the suspicious type, but I suspect you've left something out. However, if not ... you DID back up the boot.ini file, right? Well, no matter. What you are seeing is (part of) a boot.ini file that an NT install on the primary slave (IDE2) in the Winnt0 directory would make for itself. Don't ask me where it came from or where the rest of it went. You didn't tell me about your partitions on the slave, but I'll take a guess that the first active primary partition is the FAT16 partition with Win98 and an NT install in Winnt0 directory. Is that correct? This is an important question, though I infer from the boot.ini entry you posted that it is so. Further, I infer that the NT install on the primary master (IDE1) is in the Winnt directory. IF all this is true, then the following boot.ini file will give you a choice of NT on IDE1 in Winnt or NT on IDE2 in Winnt0, with a default to Winnt on IDE1: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="NT Workstation 4.0" multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="NT Workstation 4.0 [VGA mode]" /basevideo /sos You can omit the last line if it makes you nervous. It will give you a choice of booting with the VGA driver. Note that these entries are the same as yours except Winnt0 is changed to Winnt AND rdisk(1) is changed to rdisk(0). This post is too long, so I will post separately what these entries mean in just a moment.

To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (6290)	2/15/1999 10:22:00 AM
From: Spots	Respond to of 14778

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT Multi is for a multifunction controller. IDE on an Intel PC. I don't believe there is any valid entry other than multi(0) for Intel computers. Disk should specify the disk but it doesn't. It specifies the disk controler of a multifunction controller. Far as I know, only disk(0) is valid for IDE disks. Rdisk is the zero-relative physical disk number on the controller of type multi(0)disk(0). This represents all four IDE controller positions numbered 0,1,2,3. Just like FDISK would show you except counting from 0 rather than from 1. This is to keep you on your toes. Partition is the 1-relative partition number on the drive, counting the way disk manager would show them. I have no idea how or if a hidden partition is counted. Anyhow, the first partition on the drive is 1, second is 2, etc. Net it out, what we'd normally call the (IDE) c and d drive first partitions are C: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1) D: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1) Scsi disks are specified differently.