"gecko" wrote:
Quote:
> "Rick Rogers" <rick@xxxxxx>
> wrote:
> Quote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>Then your boot.ini needs to have the rdisk value set to (1) and the
>>partition set to (0) in order to be valid.
>
> Exactly right! Works fine now.
>
> Thanks all.
>
> The key was to put a copy of xp's boot.ini into Vista drive's boot
> directory. If that was said anywhere, I missed it. Oh well.
>
> -GECKO I haven't been following this thread, but Microsoft does not number
partitions starting with "0", and "partition (0)" in the boot.ini file is an
error. As for rdisk, "rdisk(1)" refers to the 2nd hard drive in the Hard
Drive Boot Order - not the boot drive. And the boot.ini file only has
meaning to ntldr, not to Vista's boot manager, and boot.ini should be in
the same file hierarchy at the same level as ntldr. If things have worked
out for you, I suspect that it was only by chance.
*TimDaniels*