From: Adrian Tritschler <ajft@ajft.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] XP boot
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 10:37:41 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42016445.6020402@ajft.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <007401c5094a$f8ac79d0$51587d50@kilgore>
boyd, rounin wrote:
> Any other method fails—boot.ini is protected by more than the NTFS
> file protection scheme, and I don't believe there's another way
> around it.
>
> yes, it is a very strange file. i got some private mail from russ and
> after
> finding boot.ini it was read only. turn that off and write it with
> notepad.
> [seemingly] randomly it would turn on read only.
>
> there is this command line thing called 'bootcfg' which is absolutely
> undecipherable, although i now understand something about the format
> of the file by tinkering.
>
> boot.ini essentially points at a 'boot block'. i'm a bit wary about
> [potentially]
> smashing a currently bootable system.
>
> this will take some thought.
The following (linux-centric) doc may help.
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/pdf/Linux+NT-Loader.pdf
OTOH, I use one of the simple boot managers, such as BOOTMGR mentioned
by Russ.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-02 23:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-01 23:59 boyd, rounin
2005-02-02 0:12 ` Russ Cox
2005-02-02 1:11 ` boyd, rounin
2005-02-02 1:20 ` Russ Cox
2005-02-02 4:42 ` Joel Salomon
2005-02-02 5:05 ` Federico Benavento
2005-02-02 17:16 ` boyd, rounin
2005-02-02 19:14 ` Russ Cox
2005-06-02 2:11 ` Fwd: " Russ Cox
2005-06-02 2:17 ` boyd, rounin
2005-06-04 7:42 ` Bruce Ellis
2005-02-02 23:37 ` Adrian Tritschler [this message]
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2005-02-02 6:51 Benjamin Huntsman
2002-09-18 20:16 [9fans] winnt boot method - hand editing boot.ini Russ Cox
[not found] ` <1107382723.563392.231440@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>
2005-02-02 22:26 ` [9fans] XP boot Joel Salomon
2005-02-02 22:28 ` Joel Salomon
2005-02-02 23:19 ` boyd, rounin
2005-02-02 23:59 ` Andrew Simmons
2005-02-03 0:03 ` boyd, rounin
2005-02-03 14:55 ` Wes Kussmaul
2005-02-03 22:25 ` boyd, rounin
2005-02-03 23:21 ` Russ Cox
2005-02-03 23:28 ` boyd, rounin
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