Re: Win2K Multi-Boot "Invalid BOOT.INI..."

[adrian15]

> Win2K ignores "hiddenness".  Further, no matter which Win2K system I 
> boot, it puts its paging file on the earliest Primary partition, calling 
> it "C:".
Do you use hide and unhide commands from grub ?
> I can move the paging file to the boot partition (e, f, g, etc.), but:
>
> [1]   I cannot remove the drive letter from the first primary (C:) 
> because it says it is using it.  For what, I don't know.  This bothers 
> me, since this is NOT the system I want to run!
See hide and unhide commands from grub.
> [2]   I cannot rename the boot partition from E, F, etc. to "C:" or 
> anything else - it cannot be changed from its place in the long 
> ennumeration of ALL partitions.
This is made by cloning a partition that it is C: .
> I also cannot eliminate the paging file.  What Windows needs a paging 
> file for with 512MB of memory I don't know.
There are some option of Control Centre to disable the need of paging 
file or to move it to another place.
> If only the grub "parttype" command worked in menu.lst perhaps I could 
> fiddle the partition types to hide and unhide at boot time.  But it 
> doesn't, and boot-us suggests that other fiddling to the partition boot 
> record is needed.
Personally I don't like parttype command... again and again... hide and 
unhide commands.

> I don't know anything about Grub2, but it might be nice to have:
>
> [1]   Partition hiding that works with Win2K/XP partitions
> [2]   UNIX dd to copy stuff around with if, of, skip, seek, count, and 
> bs.
The dd command is already included in the todo list.

> title Win2K Systems
> # password --md5 $1$4zCJO1$NIEcy2xPROh5DlxtHtBR90
> hide (hd0,0)
> hide (hd0,1)
> hide (hd0,2)
> root (hd0,0)
> chainloader (hd0,1)+1
> makeactive
> pause Ready to boot!  Press any key to proceed...
> boot

Why not:
> title Win2K Systems (1st one)
> # password --md5 $1$4zCJO1$NIEcy2xPROh5DlxtHtBR90
> hide (hd0,0)
> hide (hd0,1)
> hide (hd0,2)
unhide (hd0,0)
> root (hd0,0)
> chainloader (hd0,1)+1
> makeactive
> pause Ready to boot!  Press any key to proceed...
> boot

??????????

and so on...

adrian15