John Barnes

Look at his entry - system bootloader ntldr
I have both xp64 and xp86 on one of my Vista systems and I assure you that
the boot screen presented to me each time I select legacy os is from the
boot.ini.
The boot.ini would not be required if the os to be loaded is on the same
partition as the ntldr and the boot selection screen isn't presented if only
1 entry exists.

Entry 2
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name: Microsoft Windows XP
BCD ID: {f1006f2f-4ee8-11dc-a1d6-0013d4991b0f}
Boot Drive: D:
System Bootloader: \ntldr


"Timothy Daniels" <NoSpam@SpamMeNot.com> wrote in message
news:OsMXvMC5HHA.5740@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> "John Barnes" wrote:
>> Check your boot.ini to make sure that you have the entry pointing to the
>> proper rdisk and partition.
>
>
> Does the Vista boot manager use boot.ini when booting XP?
> It's likely that only ntldr (the NT/2K/XP) boot manager/loader
> uses boot.ini .
>
> *TimDaniels*
>