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superboy
I have been dual booting XP PRO for some time, with my main operating
system on drive 1 (Primary Master) and my gaming system on drive 2
(Primary Slave). I control which system to boot up by the simple
modification of boot.ini thus:
[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWs
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional DISK 1" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional DISK 2"=optin /fastdetect
And it has worked flawlessly.
Now I have bought VISTA Ultimate, removed my two XP drives, and have a
beginning VISTA system up and running on a separate drive1 by itself
(Primary Master). My plan now is to do a similar dual boot scenario,
mixing my XP gaming drive as drive 1 with my new VISTA drive as drive
2. I figured I had to choose this order because I discovered that
VISTA has no boot.ini file (?or does it?), and so will have to choose
system selection from the XP drive's boot.ini file.
When I tried it, booting from the XP drive worked fine. However, when
I tried to boot from the VISTA drive, the bootup hung with a blank,
black screen.
So I figure I can't do what I am trying to do.
How about it?
Thanks
-SUPERBOY
system on drive 1 (Primary Master) and my gaming system on drive 2
(Primary Slave). I control which system to boot up by the simple
modification of boot.ini thus:
[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWs
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional DISK 1" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional DISK 2"=optin /fastdetect
And it has worked flawlessly.
Now I have bought VISTA Ultimate, removed my two XP drives, and have a
beginning VISTA system up and running on a separate drive1 by itself
(Primary Master). My plan now is to do a similar dual boot scenario,
mixing my XP gaming drive as drive 1 with my new VISTA drive as drive
2. I figured I had to choose this order because I discovered that
VISTA has no boot.ini file (?or does it?), and so will have to choose
system selection from the XP drive's boot.ini file.
When I tried it, booting from the XP drive worked fine. However, when
I tried to boot from the VISTA drive, the bootup hung with a blank,
black screen.
So I figure I can't do what I am trying to do.
How about it?
Thanks
-SUPERBOY