boot.ini

[jmlozan]

I was wondering if anyone could tell me what the arc path of a hard drive hooked to the first channel a Promise Fasttrak66 IDE RAID card. The operating system is on the only partition on the drive. Thanks.

[NeuromancerIV]

Although the Promise card is an IDE card Windows NT/Windows 2000 treats it as a SCSI card and so the boot.ini file ARC path needs to be changed from the multi().../signature() format to scsi().

Note: The new signature() format is used in Windows 2000 for IDE devices, and example line is:

signature(a1bb)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT=" Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00"

For example if I had boot.ini file:

[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="Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00 [VGA mode]" /basevideo /sos

and then installed the Promise card (and install the driver before moving the IDE cable from the motherboard to the card), I would change boot.ini to:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00"
scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00 [VGA mode]" /basevideo /sos

Make sure you also change the "default=" part. Obviously make sure you have loaded the Promise driver before trying to boot

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A buddy had a similar issue: this was his solution: hope this helps..

[jmlozan]

it is a 2000 server box, is it the same as you have their for the NT box? if it is, I tried that and it didn't work.

[NeuromancerIV]

hrrmm....

I see if he's got anyother ideas.

Good Luck!

[NeuromancerIV]

http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm

try this proggy "Bootpart", it will automatically (hopefully) correct the boot.ini appropriately at worst case.Its freeware but has been a life saver

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[Gabriel]

If the hdd is a RAID member - forget it!!!