boot.ini question

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ÆxistenZ

OS: Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Version: 5.00.2195 Service Pack 4
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A search for boot.ini finds only *one*
named boot.ini backup in:
C\WINDOWS\pss

Is this normal?
Where is boot.ini ?

 Any help or advice appreciated
ÆxistenZ
 
Boot.ini resides in your C:\ directory. It has by default the Hidden,
Readonly, and System attributes; other than that it's just a small plain
text file.

To see or edit it you must remove the above attributes, and when you're
all done with it it's a good idea to restore them. It's also an
extremely good idea to back up the one you have, or even just print it
out. Without a correct boot.ini, the boot process cannot succeed.

The ATTRIB command is pretty simple. To find the syntax, start the
Command Prompt and type
attrib /?

In your case you need to enter, at the C:> prompt:
attrib -r -s -h boot.ini
after which boot.ini should become visible and editable.
Then, to modify the existing boot.ini, enter:
edit boot.ini
and save the file when you're finished.
 
William Plummer said:
boot.ini can live anywhere. Its function is to tell what drive, partition
and directory holds the operating system NTOSKRNL.exe. Some people put it
on a floppy with the other files required for booting.
Click to expand...

Not quite. Boot.ini must live in the root directory of
the current boot disk, i.e.
- c:\boot.ini if you're booting from the hard disk, or
- a:\boot.ini if you're booting from the floppy disk

This is actually hard-coded into ntldr.
 
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