Multi-boot

[H4x3r]

hey guys...yall all know who i am..but anyway...as you saw in the off topic forum...AOHELL!!!....so i reformatted and popped in my 30gb hdd and installed win2k on it...so now i have Windows XP pro on partition C: (my 80gb drive) and 2k on D: (30gb) i am planning on using windows xp for most all my stuff except gaming which i'm gonna use 2k..and i want to know how do i edit the boot.ini to allow multiboot when the system is starting up?? thanks for the help

 

[brady]

Ok since I can't format this **** post.
I will just post a helpful link.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;289022

 

[H4x3r]

okay man thanks...i got it added..but it's not right..cause when i select it it boots windows XP...here is the boot.ini


[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect


i looked for the location of D: and it is Location: Location 1 (1)



so how would i fix it?

 

[brady]

Thats weird... your ini file looks as though it should be prompting you to choose between the 2 for 30 seconds.

you can try :
At the command prompt, type: bootcfg /timeout# Where # specifies the time in seconds after which default operating system will be loaded.

 

[H4x3r]

no...thats not the problem...it's when it comes up asking if i want to boot either windows XP or 2k...if i select windows XP it boots xp...and if i select windows 2k it boots XP..i think it's looking in the same place for both...but i dont know how to get it to look on the other hdd for win2k...

i tried changing this:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect

to this:
multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect

and it still doesn't work

 

[brady]

Try to set the windows 2000 to the default OS to see if it will boot.

use this...

At the command prompt, type:
bootcfg /default /ID#
Where # specifies the boot entry id in the operating systems section of the BOOT.INI file to be made the default operating system.



Thought : Is your 2000 Os on the same disk or a different drive ?


Found it ( i think )

[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect

your 2000 needs to be partition (2)

 

[H4x3r]

nope...still didn't work

and yes they are on two separate hdds...W2k on my 30gb WD and XP on my 80gb Seagate

 

[H4x3r]

sry for the double post...but i got it fixed....i had to change rdisk(0) to 1 and that solved the problem actually i;m writing this on windows 2k