Multiple OS installs on same machine results in boot errors

[Felton]

I have a machine that has a multiple installation problem that results in the boot process attempting to go into the upgrade/original install mode. This results in a corrupted kernal error. If I catch the boot in time, I can arrow up to the normal selection past the windows and 4.0 vga boot.<br>
I have edited the boot.ini file to remove the extra instances of the OS selection process, but would like to get rid of this little error.<br>
<br>
Felton

 

[DougP]

Do you have or did you have two drives in the machine.<br>
Look in system BIOS and see which one it thinks it's using. <p> DougP<br><a href=mailto: dposton@universal1.com> dposton@universal1.com</a><br><a href= > </a><br>

 

[Felton]

Hi Doug,<br>
<br>
I'm using three IDE drives and two SCSI drives and one IDE cdrom.

 

[DougP]

Well that error stems from the Location of the boot drive.<br>
i.e.<br>
in the &quot;boot.ini&quot; file<br>
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT=&quot;Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00&quot; <br>
you need to decipher the above line in your boot.ini to see which drive it wants to boot from.<br>
<br>
Do you want to boot to a SCSI or IDE drive?<br>
If you can boot the machine and go into &quot;Administrative tools&quot; , Disk Administrator&quot; it will tell you the ORDER of the drives.<br>
0,1,2,3 etc. <br>
Then you can edit the boot.ini to reflect the drive you want to boot to. <p> DougP<br><a href=mailto: dposton@universal1.com> dposton@universal1.com</a><br><a href= > </a><br>

 

[Felton]

I've already tried those options. Do you know what the boot file sequence is?<br>
<br>
Felton