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re: ''Bootmulti'' question about 'Contents of the MSDOS.SYS File' Tuesday, February 11, 2003 at 2:17 pm Posted by Oh_dear (1415 messages posted) Are you running Win2000 or Win98? If Win2000, try the 2000 forum. On Tuesday, February 11, 2003 at 12:49 pm, John P. Kornhiser wrote: >While studying for my Win2000 MCSE I installed a "trial" copy of 2000 Server on my >drive, which enabled the Multiboot option at startup. No longer needing this setup, >I removed the Win2000 software, and found that the Multiboot option is still present. >Per instructions in this article, I opened "msdos.sys" with Wordpad, changed "bootmulti" >back to 0 (zero), and saved. Although I've reopened the file to confirm the change, >I still get a Multiboot menu at startup? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: ''Bootmulti'' question about 'Contents of the MSDOS.SYS File' Tuesday, February 11, 2003 at 2:31 pm Posted by John P. Kornhiser (4 messages posted) Hard to believe I know, but my primary OS is still currently 98.... On Tuesday, February 11, 2003 at 2:17 pm, Oh_Dear wrote: >Are you running Win2000 or Win98? If Win2000, try the 2000 forum. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: ''Bootmulti'' question about 'Contents of the MSDOS.SYS File' Tuesday, February 11, 2003 at 2:41 pm Posted by John P. Kornhiser (4 messages posted) After seeing your response, I wondered if Windows2000 had installed anything additional concerning the boot sequence and began to research this possibility. I believe now that the issue is with "boot.ini" which currently looks as follows: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server" /fastdetect multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server" /fastdetect C:\="Microsoft Windows" I believe that the two "multi" entries under [operating systems] are the two copies (I know, two...I goofed) of 2000 Server that I installed. I'm assuming that removing these entries will resolve the issue? Or does "boot.ini" need to go altogether? On Tuesday, February 11, 2003 at 2:17 pm, Oh_Dear wrote: >Are you running Win2000 or Win98? If Win2000, try the 2000 forum. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: ''Bootmulti'' question about 'Contents of the MSDOS.SYS File' Tuesday, February 11, 2003 at 3:42 pm Posted by FishMonger (246 messages posted) In addition to installing the boot.ini file, W2K modifies the boot sector so that it will point to its boot loader, which is NTLDR. To go back to the Win98 boot loader, boot to the command prompt with a Win98 boot floppy and enter the command fdisk /MBR. It might also be a good idea to reload the Win98 command interpreter with sys c: On Tuesday, February 11, 2003 at 2:41 pm, John P. Kornhiser wrote: >After seeing your response, I wondered if Windows2000 had installed anything additional >concerning the boot sequence and began to research this possibility. I believe now >that the issue is with "boot.ini" which currently looks as follows: > >[boot loader] >timeout=30 >default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT >[operating systems] >multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server" >/fastdetect >multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server" >/fastdetect >C:\="Microsoft Windows" > > I believe that the two "multi" entries under [operating systems] are the two >copies (I know, two...I goofed) of 2000 Server that I installed. I'm assuming that >removing these entries will resolve the issue? Or does "boot.ini" need to go altogether? > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: ''Bootmulti'' question about 'Contents of the MSDOS.SYS File' Tuesday, February 11, 2003 at 4:39 pm Posted by John P. Kornhiser (4 messages posted) Done!!! Much thanks Ron, that's all it took! On Tuesday, February 11, 2003 at 3:42 pm, Ron wrote: >In addition to installing the boot.ini file, W2K modifies the boot sector so that >it will point to its boot loader, which is NTLDR. To go back to the Win98 boot loader, >boot to the command prompt with a Win98 boot floppy and enter the command fdisk /MBR. > It might also be a good idea to reload the Win98 command interpreter with sys c: > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum