W2K & WMe boot up files tweak

[danielshoes]

I have one hd and two partitions: NTFS(W2K) and FAT32(WMe). I've installed W2K throug WMe into yours NTFS partition (not over WMe).
The problem is: My boot manager can't boot up W2K directly (acessing NTFS partition). It needs to access the FAT32 and a new menu comes up, where you choose what system will boot: W2K or WMe.
I want to know:
1) What W2K installation did with WMe initialization files?
2) What need I do to boot up each system directly?
3) How is boot process in W2K and WMe? (example: In W98 you have the msdos.sys with all that boot instructions lines, so you can tweak it).
The boot manager I use is the XOSL and can be found for free in:
www.xosl.org
Go get it! It worth a shot.

 

[danielshoes]

nobody?

 

[danielshoes]

who can help me?

 

[danielshoes]

last chance... before I cry.

 

[chacaito]

Why to install a boot manager when there is one already in W2k??
You should consider to install the WinMe on your primary partition or disk and Win2k on the extended partition or disk, so, it will boot the primary partition where Win2k will install a special file named : boot.ini and you will get a menu to select which OS to boot.

I think it's the best.. better than any boot manager.

;-)

 

[danielshoes]

Thanks, but In fact I have another OS's installed, like linux (ext2 partition), and I want to use this boot manager booting up each system separately. The second hd is my father's drive and I also manage it with the boot manager.

Forget the 2nd drive. The first is this way:

1st primary partition: ext2 (linux /boot)
2nd primary partition: NTFS (Win2K)
3rd primary partition: FAT32 (WinMe)
4rd primary partition: extended into 2 logical drives (listed below)
- 1st logical drive: ext2 (linux /)
- 2nd logical drive: fat16 (common to all)

I just want to know HOW IS Win2K and Win Me boot process and boot files, like the old and good Win9x msdos.sys was.

And how can I install W2K WITHOUT access at first the FAT32 partition (where is located WMe), see the dual boot menu (W2K or WMe) and choose again!
I want to boot either W2K and WMe directly from the boot manager.

That's all folks...
:->

 

[SUOrangeman]

Use Win2K's boot loader and bootpart from the winimage folks. Win2K And Win9x/ME MUST see the same C: drive for the loaders to work correctly anyway. If not, you'll have to use something commercial, like System Commander or BootMagic. Why pay when Microsoft's alternative is free?

BTW, 2K=NT5 and there is NO DOS whatsoever. Don't expect to figure it out. Oh yeah, no real-mode DOS in WinME either.

-SUO

 

[IamDavid]

Use the win2k bootloader for all your OS's. I use it for my WinME\Win2K\Linux\Beos system.