Boot.ini and IDE controller

[Edward Diener]

I moved the drive in which Win2K normally boots from my built-in IDE1 to my IDE3
controller. I did not change the multi(0) designation in boot.ini. Yet my system
booted up fine. Is "multi" actually looked at in the Win2k bootup at all for IDE
disks ? If so, what does it mean in this regard ?

 

[philo]

I moved the drive in which Win2K normally boots from my built-in IDE1 to
my IDE3 controller. I did not change the multi(0) designation in
boot.ini. Yet my system booted up fine. Is "multi" actually looked at in
the Win2k bootup at all for IDE disks ? If so, what does it mean in this
regard ?

this link has some info on how boot.ini works

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kb...minTips/Booting/PurposeoftheBOOT.INIFile.html


had you been using Linux... you would have had a problem booting however
as you'd have changed the harddrive from hda1 to hda3