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Re: Win2K Multi-Boot "Invalid BOOT.INI..."
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adrian15 |
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Re: Win2K Multi-Boot "Invalid BOOT.INI..." |
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Mon, 15 May 2006 12:35:44 +0200 |
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Web Clark (RR) wrote:
Replies below interleaved with your comments, but let me state a new
question first just so it does not get lost. (The question will make
more sense after you read my response to your comments and suggestion):
Is there a way in a menu.lst to REMOVE the "active" or "boot" attribute
from a partition?
There's the makeactive command that puts a "boot" or "active" flag to be
a previously rooted partition (root (hdX,Y)).
I think that its behaviour also removes the flag from the other
partitions. So if you active number 2, 1,3 and 4 will be not active,
even if before the 1 was active.
Perhaps if NONE
of the Primary paritions on the first drive have active/boot set, then
mabe it would make C: the primary "boot" partition on the second drive.
Then I could get my 8-10 bootable Win2K systems by adding a second and
third hard drive, getting 3 or 4 each depending on whether I had an
extended.
Theoritecally I've made some menues on Super Grub Disk that work with
map commands (for swapping virtually two hard disks) and the hide and
unhide commands (for hiding and unhiding partition suposedly).
Check Hide and Unhide menu in Special boot option.
I am not sure that I even need "Active" to be set, since grub boots
itself,
No. You do not need the active to be set unless Win2k requires it to
boot up himself. I am not sure right now. I think that yes... that it
requires it.
Yes, but it does not seem to matter, behavior is the same. I can boot
from a hidden drive, and Win2K sees them all.
I am not very sure about this but I think the problem is that you have
had the cloning of Win2k when these partitions were accesible
(non-hiden) from Win2k.
So my advise is to do a fresh install of win2k to 1 partition when 2 and
3 and maybe(Maybe the 4 partition you want to use it as an extended?) 4
partition is hidden.
Then supposedly when cloning this fresh install there should not be any
partition more than the partition where w2k it is.
If the clone is a "logical" partition, C: becomes the second partition
on the first hard drive when the first is a 128MB dedicated grub
partition. If the first is a Win2K partition that C: becomes the first.
That's normal behaviour of Win2K. The first partition with Win2k is the C:.
I also cannot eliminate the paging file. What Windows needs a paging
file for with 512MB of memory I don't know.
There are some option of Control Centre to disable the need of paging
file or to move it to another place.
This option should be some where. So that you can disable the need of
paging file. I am a linux user right now and I cannot dig into win and
find for it. Can you investigate a bit more?
I found something VERY INTERESTING. If I set parttype to
"non-FS data" for all partitions except for the grub partition and the
Win2K boot partition, Win2K STILL assigned a drive letter and could see
and access them fine! All of the primary, and the logical up to and
including the boot logical partition. Perhaps it is seeing all of the
partitions that it had previously accessed (before I changed the
parttype), but this is a wild guess.
That's what I told you again. I suspect than you do have to do a fresh
install after hiding 2,3,4 and unhiding 1.
Thank you very much for the comments and suggestions. Thank you also
for all the time you spend helping people here!
You're welcome.
I want a howto from you about how to build that... so that I can apply
it to my Super Grub Disk.
Check the menu.lst files in the cdrom something as:
/cdrom/boot/sdg/S10en/S30_special_boot/S20_hide_and_unhide/...
adrian15