Bootcfg Questions

[Guest]

I was getting a message "INVALID BOOT.INI FILE - BOOTING FROM C:/WINDOWS", so
I tried to fix my one and only (default) XP Home boot. I did so with
"bootcfg / rebuild" from the recovery console - called it test to make sure I
could distinguish it - but forgot to add the /fastdetect OS option. So, I
created a third boot config. THIS is the one I want to use. When I boot
now, the system asks me to select between the three - the original (which I
don't want) - TEST (which I don't want) - and the new one. When I went back
in the recovery console, as I read somewhere that with "bootcfg /delete" I
could get rid of the other two, there are two problems:

a) bootcfg /list and bootcfg /scan only seem to find TEST and the NEW one -
NOT the original (yet it shows every time I boot)

b) For me, bootcfg HAS no "DELETE" option.

And that's okay...if I could ever figure out how to make the NEW one the
default. And bootcfg help shows /DEFAULT as an option, but it doesn't
recognize this option, muchless the syntax.

So....anybody have info on this? Not a show stopper, just bugging me.

Thanks!

Andy

 

[Claymore]

Hello Andy,

Adjust the following to fit your boot.ini files (note the attrib
command):

Boot from your XP Setup CD and enter the Recovery Console
Run "Attrib -H -R -S" on the C:\Boot.ini file
Delete the C:\Boot.ini file
Run "Bootcfg /Rebuild"
Run Fixboot

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attrib example:

arttrib -h -r -s C:\boot.ini
Spaces after attrib; after -h; after -r; after -s

 

[Claymore]

Hello Andy,

Adjust the following to fit your boot.ini files (note the attrib
command):

Boot from your XP Setup CD and enter the Recovery Console
Run "Attrib -H -R -S" on the C:\Boot.ini file
Delete the C:\Boot.ini file
Run "Bootcfg /Rebuild"
Run Fixboot

--------------------------------------------------------

attrib example:

arttrib -h -r -s C:\boot.ini
Spaces after attrib; after -h; after -r; after -s

 

[Guest]

Hi, Claymore...

Thanks so much for this information. I will try this tonight and post the
results here at that time.

Andy