RE: [Thinkpad] Booting with HDD in ultra bay

After a bit more research I've come up with the following boot.ini

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
;multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000
Professional" /fastdetect
;multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000
Professional" /fastdetect

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="OS 1 disk 0 Microsoft Windows
2000 Professional"
multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(1)partition(1)\Windows="OS 2 disk 1 Windows 98"

Can't remember if the escape key for an *.ini is a ";" or "REM"

-----Original Message-----
From: thinkpad-bounces@stderr.org [mailto:thinkpad-bounces@stderr.org] On
Behalf Of David Reid
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 3:30 PM
To: 'Rob Bell'
Cc: thinkpad@stderr.org
Subject: RE: [Thinkpad] Booting with HDD in ultra bay

Ummm ok, so I keep W2k as disk( 0 ) or disk(1) then add a line that has
disk(2) for Windows 98?

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000
Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(2)rdisk(0)partition(1)\Win98="Microsoft Windows 98 Second
Edition" /fastdetect

There's no way it could be this simple!??

By the way, both individual hard drives are partitioned into 4 but the OS
for each is located on C:

-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Bell [mailto:RobDBell@mailworks.org]
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 3:22 PM
To: David Reid
Cc: thinkpad@stderr.org
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Booting with HDD in ultra bay

All you have to do to boot from a different disk is follow the
instructions for dual-booting and change the disk(x) parameter to
reflect the alternate drive. I haven't done this for a long time so I
forget the exact syntax.

Rob

David Reid wrote:

> Nope, no option expander "(+)" Just four devices listed, none of which
will
> cause the system to boot on the second hard drive.
>
> And all I can find about the boot.ini file on W2k (via google) is
references
> to booting different OS's from different partitions nothing about booting
> from a different hard disk drive.
>
> Dave

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