Just to point out that the first reply you had (see the bottom of this), told you exactly where it was c:\boot.ini and now that I've read your last, I'm wondering what the point of this gymnastic exercise was... On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 22:18 -0500, Ron Watson wrote: > Yup, it wasn't on the W2k drive, it was on the master boot drive. > C:\boot.ini but since the system does what I want it to, I'm going > to leave well enough alone. Probably as a side effect of BootMagic, > the master boot drive, which had been I:, is now where it should be, > intuitively anyway, at C: > > Ron; > > Paul Howarth wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 22:53 -0500, Ron Watson wrote: > > > > > Tried that, it still wasn't there. It's a mystery.... > > > > > > Ron; > > > > > > Paul Howarth wrote: > > > > > > > On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 00:06 -0500, Ron Watson wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > The W2k bootloader that comes up doesn't show anything but > > > > > Win98 and Win2k for options. I can't figure out where they're storing > > > > > this info, > > > > > there doesn't seem to be BOOT.INI, it's not in the registry, duh. The > > > > > only file in the > > > > > whole system with the string "/fastdetect" is ntldr. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > boot.ini is a hidden file in the root directory of the partition the > > > > bootloader is installed into, usually C:\ > > > > > > > > You'll need to turn on the option in Explorer to "View Hidden and System > > > > Files" to see it. > > > > > > > > Did you look in the root directory of all of your drives? > > > > You could also try starting notepad and opening C:\BOOT.INI by actually > > typing in the full name of the file in the file selection dialog, which > > would open the file even if it was hidden, as long as it's there of > > course. > > > > Paul. > > > > -- > === Ron Watson === rw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx === > Nisi potestatam dabis, non habebunt. > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
