From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 10:37:41 +1100 From: Adrian Tritschler Subject: Re: [9fans] XP boot In-reply-to: <007401c5094a$f8ac79d0$51587d50@kilgore> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Message-id: <42016445.6020402@ajft.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=UTF-8 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) References: <001e01c508ba$1e86d7e0$3f587d50@kilgore> <000a01c508c4$25f2d290$4aec7d50@kilgore> <7871fcf505020120421bf9ff8e@mail.gmail.com> <007401c5094a$f8ac79d0$51587d50@kilgore> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: fff6b6de-eacf-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 boyd, rounin wrote: > Any other method fails=E2=80=94boot.ini is protected by more than th= e NTFS > file protection scheme, and I don't believe there's another way=20 > around it. >=20 > yes, it is a very strange file. i got some private mail from russ and=20 > after > finding boot.ini it was read only. turn that off and write it with=20 > notepad. > [seemingly] randomly it would turn on read only. >=20 > 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. >=20 > boot.ini essentially points at a 'boot block'. i'm a bit wary about=20 > [potentially] > smashing a currently bootable system. >=20 > 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-Lo= ader.pdf OTOH, I use one of the simple boot managers, such as BOOTMGR mentioned=20 by Russ. --------------------------------------------------------------- Adrian Tritschler mailto:ajft@ajft.org Latitude 38=C2=B0S, Longitude 145=C2=B0E, Altitude 50m, Shoe size 44 ---------------------------------------------------------------