moving to linux --- success finally [long]
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Wed Feb 2 04:12:33 UTC 2005
Just to point out that the first reply you had (see the bottom of this),
told you exactly where it was c:\boot.ini and now that I've read your
last, I'm wondering what the point of this gymnastic exercise was...
On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 22:18 -0500, Ron Watson wrote:
> Yup, it wasn't on the W2k drive, it was on the master boot drive.
> C:\boot.ini but since the system does what I want it to, I'm going
> to leave well enough alone. Probably as a side effect of BootMagic,
> the master boot drive, which had been I:, is now where it should be,
> intuitively anyway, at C:
>
> Ron;
>
> Paul Howarth wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 22:53 -0500, Ron Watson wrote:
> >
> > > Tried that, it still wasn't there. It's a mystery....
> > >
> > > Ron;
> > >
> > > Paul Howarth wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 00:06 -0500, Ron Watson wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > The W2k bootloader that comes up doesn't show anything but
> > > > > Win98 and Win2k for options. I can't figure out where they're storing
> > > > > this info,
> > > > > there doesn't seem to be BOOT.INI, it's not in the registry, duh. The
> > > > > only file in the
> > > > > whole system with the string "/fastdetect" is ntldr.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > boot.ini is a hidden file in the root directory of the partition the
> > > > bootloader is installed into, usually C:\
> > > >
> > > > You'll need to turn on the option in Explorer to "View Hidden and System
> > > > Files" to see it.
> > > >
> >
> > Did you look in the root directory of all of your drives?
> >
> > You could also try starting notepad and opening C:\BOOT.INI by actually
> > typing in the full name of the file in the file selection dialog, which
> > would open the file even if it was hidden, as long as it's there of
> > course.
> >
> > Paul.
> >
>
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