Having trouble multibooting XP with RedHat 2

[Joseph11h]

I've got XP and just recently installed RedHat Linux with GRUB. GRUB is working fine loading both operating systems, but when I try to load XP, it stops and a blue screen of death pops up. It says, "Missing files: xmnt2002 and autochk." Then it shuts the system down. I checked to see if both files were in the C:/Windows/Sys32 folder like they should be through the Recovery Console, and they were both there! I don't see why it's not loading if the files are right there. . . . Any tips on what I should do are greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 

[wolluf]

You could check if XP installation will boot on its own by creating an XP boot floppy (copy ntldr, ntdetect.com & boot.ini from root of XP drive to a newly formatted floppy). Boot from this floppy - circumvent GRUB. If XP boots ok, your issue is probably with GRUB.

 

[Joseph11h]

I've found those files but I can't put them on a floppy because Emergency Recovery won't let me copy to removable media. Is there another way to get the files on a floppy?

 

[ie6user]

Just allow writing to removable media (either through policy (looking at your situation, I'd say "Win+R gpedit.msc&quot Local computer / Windows Settings / Security settings / Local policies / Security Options / Recovery console: allow floppy etc....

Or, assuming no policies: once at the recovery console, type SET to see the options you can set.. (won't reboot right now - but something in the line of "set allowremovablemedia=yes" would do the trick...

Good luck... ---
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[wolluf]

Or using another machine, you can copy ntldr & ntdetect.com from XP's install CD (\i386) & you can create a boot.ini using notepad (or any test editor). If XP is on 1st partition of 1st drive it should normally look like this:-

[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=&quot;Microsoft Windows XP Professional&quot; /fastdetect

 

[wolluf]

Or using another machine, you can copy ntldr & ntdetect.com from XP's install CD (\i386) & you can create a boot.ini using notepad (or any test editor). If XP is on 1st partition of 1st drive it should normally look like this:-

[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=&quot;Microsoft Windows XP Professional&quot; /fastdetect

 

[Joseph11h]

XP is booting right. But when it's doing the little progress indicator thing, after a few seconds, it brings up the afforementioned error in the blue screen.

 

[ie6user]

Hm.. let's think - xmnt2002 - wouldn't that be the PowerQuest &quot;batch processor&quot; - to modify locked volumes? When scheduled, that tries to run (like all programs which need full access to active disks) very early in the OSload process.. (the same moment that off-line disk defragmenters, chkdsk and things run..)

Just remove GRUB for now (it's easily reinstalled, and you could for testing boot your linux from diskette or CD) and check (after a FIXMBR from the revcon) if there are any scheduled partition changes from PM7/8 left.... probably running a full chkdsk might reveal something as well, as probably any evenlog messages.. (run eventvwr.msc)..

As a side note, running Grub 0.90 without any problems, so at least it *could* work <g>

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//john
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[Joseph11h]

Yeah. I forgot to mention that I had PartitionMagic on XP. I was going to use BootMagic (a program it comes with) for the multibooter, but I couldn't get it to work. If I deleted the file, would it boot correctly? And by the way, this is kinda a dumb question, but how do you uninstall GRUB without uninstalling the complete OS?

 

[wolluf]

Fixmbr from recovery console (or fdisk /mbr from win98 boot floppy) should remove GRUB.