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On Sun, 01 Sep 2002 18:32:38 GMT, "Bobb" <rjschmoe_nospam@netscape.net>
wrote:
>Bobb wrote: <snip>

[snip]

Wow, you really confused me here, top posting, and then responding to
yourself in the same post... :)

>> I agree with the diagnosis (Windows 98 must boot from a primary partition
>on
>> the first IDE channel) and have since (temporarily I hope) bypassed the
>> Promise card. Now have this config:
>> IDE primary = Win98/ Win2000 drive and
>> IDE secondary = XP drive  (it has a diag parttion as well as NTFS)
>> Still a problem getting boot.ini going just using the onboard primary IDE
>> channel.
>> I thought the boot.ini details should be so:
>> win98 = 0-0-0-1
>> win2000 = 0-0-0-2
>> XP = 0-0-0-4 (to allow for diag).
>> I can't get that second drive to boot. 

Um, if you setup XP on the RAID volume (mirror-set), then I'd doubt the
XP partition on just one of the two-drive mirrors would be accessible.
The mirrored-sets I'm familar with muck around with the partition-types
upon boot, so in it's initial state (using a non-RAID controller), it
doesn't appear to be an NTFS partition.

Does the DIAG partition work, when on the secondary ? - just curious.

>> ... I tried several, such as 0-0-1-2,
>> 0-0-0-3
>> I thought it obvious to be  0-0-1-2 but no go.
>> When I boot it alone, it shows as 0-0-0-2.

Yes. Have you read the "Understanding the Boot.ini Naming Convention" in
the Win 2K ResKit, chapter 6, taking note of ARC pathname info (about
3/8 the way down the page) ?.  Read the whole thing, anyway:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000pro/reskit/part2/proch06.asp

But I doubt any of that is going to help you, if your using only one
disk from a mirrored-set. I suppose you could edit the partition type of
one of the drives, but that will break your mirrored-set... do you have
disk imaging software (Drive Image, Ghost ?)

>>
>> As for the Promise card, I found no help as their website as to how the OS
>> sees it.
>> I did try 1-0-0-2    : no good.  and also scsi 1-0-0-2 and then wouldn't
>> boot.
>> Lots of fun.
>> Sure would be easier to wipe it all and start again, but this "builds
>> character"

Mate, you gotta be a character... :)


>>
>> Thanks for the input.
>>
>Just set it up again, and upon using 0-0-1-2, it starts to boot win2000 (bar
>and press F8 then starts to grow the bar then dies !
>The XP drive does not have a "\winnt" partiton so how it that happening ?
>(Must NOT be going to drive #1 when I try XP ?
>boot.ini =
>[boot loader]
>timeout=5
>default=C:\
>[operating systems]
>C:\="Windows 98"
>multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Windows 2000 Pro" /fastdetect
>/vgamode
>multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\Windows ="Microsoft Windows XP"
>/fastdetect
>{ again c= win98/2000 , d= xp ]
>

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Richard Rudek. MicroDek, Sydney, Australia.
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