DUAL BOOTING QUESTION

what exactaly do u mean by
>>I want to use boot.ini to load the drive on the secondary slave<<

do you want to load windows 2000 server by default . if yes just change
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(3)partition(1)\WINNT
 in your boot.ini

Your W2K ARC path looks suspect: You don't have 4 disks...

See:-

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/Q102/8/73.ASP&NoWebContent=1

for ARC Path syntax.

JohnT

Edit the Boot.ini file

You can view the contents of the boot.ini file by

Start > Run > type msconfig {enter}

And select the boot.ini tab

To manually edit the boot.ini

Right click “My Computer” select Properties > Advanced >  On the startup and recovery section click settings.

You can change the default operating system here or delete one you don’t want.

If you click the “Edit” button you can manually edit the boot.ini file.


This is a line from a boot.ini that launches XP Home
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect

To understand what all that means, look here.
http://www.goodells.net/multiboot/editbini.htm

***Further reading***

http://web.ukonline.co.uk/cook/dualboot.htm
http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/1268/

The "3" you are using indicates the 4th disk. Are you using four IDE disks? If only two then rdisk should be "1"

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(3)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Server" /fastdetect

This is what diskmanagement looks like:
Disk 0 (Win XP C:)
Disk 1 (Removeable D:)
Disk 2 (Win XP F:)
CDROM 0 (E:)
I tried using this for a boot.ini file:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Server 0"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Server 1"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Server 2"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(3)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Server 3"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(4)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Server 4"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(5)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Server 5"

Selection 1 starts up Win2k then gives a stop error.
All other selections do nothing.  Ive tried with /fastdetect and without to see if that would make any difference.

Which one is 2000 on? You list Disk 1 and 3 as both XP.

This is the selection that boots Win2k:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Server 1"

That is pointing to your removable drive then (D)....is that a removable hard drive?

Is the Disk 0, 1 & 2 you list right out of Disk Management in XP?

>This is the selection that boots Win2k:
>multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Server 1"

If that's the one that boots W2K server, then you should replace the second line of the origimally posted boot.ini with that and delete your other attempts.  I.e boot.ini should have:-

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Server 1"

That should default to booting XP home and have the option to boot W2K server within 30 secs.

JohnT

The removeable drive is an MP3 player
The information i posted above is what is listed in disk management

The Physical configuration is as follows:
Primary Master: HD1 (WinXP)
Primary Slave: Zip Drive
Secondary Master: CD-ROM
Secondary Slave: HD2 (Win2k)

For some reason using the following option boots to the secondary slave:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Server"

However using this option results in a STOP error.  Ive tried plugging the drive in as primary master and I also get the stop error.  What could be wrong?

Can you list the stop error here?

I get
STOP ERROR INACCESSABLE_BOOT_DEVICE
after doing some research (http://www.extremetech.com/print_article/0,1583,a=23979,00.asp) on the topic it seems that the hard drive from my win2k server will not work inside another computer unless I reinstall the OS from scratch.  Is this true?

If the Hard Drive is from another system that has many different Hardware (including motherboard), then yes it is true.  If it was from an Identical machine then you should be able to access it.

Does the 'in place upgrade' wipe out the registry settings?

Only the ones it needs to to make it work (the Hardware Abstraction Layer).  Did one the other day.  There were a few problems with version incompatibilities.  Those went away after re-installing service pack / windows updates

JohnT

Thanks for the info J :)