Edit boot.ini in recovery console not possible?

[JBruyet]

Hey all,

I built a test Win2k server to experiment with and I have run into my first problem. It's running two mirrored SCSI drives (because that's the setup for my "live" servers). I shut the server down, removed the SCSI cable from one of the drives, then booted it back up. I was very surprised to see it boot all the way so I shut it down again and put the cable back on, but now it won't boot. I booted into recovery console but I'm not able to edit any files, so here's my question--how do I edit the boot.ini files from the recovery console? I even navigated to C:\winnt\system32 and tried to use the normal edit.com but that doesn't work. Like I mentioned earlier this isn't a critical server, but if something like this happens on a critical server I'd like to be able to get it going again. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Joe Brouillette

 

[Fruiteri]

well, what about create a boot.ini manually and save it to diskette and copy it to the c:\boot.ini?
There's also a boot.bak in c:\, maybe u can use that?
Correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[JBruyet]

Hi Fruiteri,

Yeah, those are viable options but I was hoping there was some way of editing the boot.ini file from the recovery console. I was suprised that EDIT.COM isn't included in the recovery console options, and even more surprised that I couldn't run the EDIT.COM from the system32 folder.

Thanks,

Joe Brouillette