Need Boot.Ini information for my dual boot with ATA100 controller

[bchillin]

I can not get my drive to boot when I put it on my ATA100 Promise IDE controller.

I have a dual boot 98SE/Win 2K system and I setup my drives off the regular ATA33/66 Primary IDE interface.

Everything works fine but now I want to move the faster drive to the Promise controller. I have loaded Promise drivers 1.60 build 25 and updated BIOS (A7V boot sequence has 4th device =SCSI/Onboard ATA Boot Device; my Onboard ATA Boot device is enabled.

The ATA100 sees my drive but won't boot; I get this message:
Windows 2000 could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. Could not read from selected boot disk; check boot path and hardware.

I think my Boot.ini is missing something? Here is my boot.ini which is the same on both my 98 drive and Win2K. I boot from 98 and make a selection of which operating system to use...

[boot loader]
timeout=1
default=signature(84b467a6)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
signature(84b467a6)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect
C:\="Microsoft Windows"

Can someone post there boot.ini for a 98/win2K dual boot system or let me know if I am missing something in my boot.ini?

Thanks!
Brian

 

[WoundedWallet]

I don't know exactly what it means but my boot.ini doesn't have that "signature" stuff that you have. Instead I have "multi(0)".

It may be related to the many hard drives and logical drives that I have, but in case it is not give it a try.

BTW, there is a good chance that you problem is not there. Have you checked your bios and set your ATA-100 to be bootable? Also to this day I haven't managed to boot from my HPT366 on W2k. So there is a slight chance that the same driver problem exists on your Promise.

In any case here it is: "multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)"

WW