[syslinux] memdisk and winxp boot disk

Giulio Orsero giulioo at pobox.com
Wed Jun 19 05:19:50 PDT 2002


On Wed, 19 Jun 2002 11:49:54 +0100 (BST), Roy Badami
<roy.badami at globalgraphics.com> wrote:

>If that's the case, you could try editing boot.ini to reference
>rdisk(1) instead of rdisk(0) -- I think that's right, though it could
>be disk(1)

I've tried the following permutations
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professiona1" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professiona2" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professiona3" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professiona4" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professiona5" /fastdetect

all of them produce a different error

".... cannot find boot device, try reinstalling Windows..."

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giulioo at pobox.com



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