mlarj Posted June 28, 2004 Share Posted June 28, 2004 I have a small (3mb) partiton on the hard disk which connects to the network, calls the XP installation with an unattended file.The problem I have is...After the XP installation files have been copied from the network, on first reboot I get the message :Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: windows\system32\hal.dllThe problem is that the dafault boot.ini for XP has the line :multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS=Partition 1 being my hidden 'utility' partition and hence cannot boot. Is there a way to set XP's boot partition in the unattended or similar file ? so it will boot off of a specified partition ? ie. multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS=Many thanksMat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrzycrim Posted June 28, 2004 Share Posted June 28, 2004 Copy an edited boot.ini during the installation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mlarj Posted June 28, 2004 Author Share Posted June 28, 2004 I did try that. I copied a modified boot.ini to :i386\$oem$\Cbut the same thing happened, am I putting this in the wrong place ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrzycrim Posted June 28, 2004 Share Posted June 28, 2004 You probably need to copy it during runonceex. If it's copied over at the very beginning of the installation, then it's getting overwritten by the install process itself.edit: Actually, runonce exe wouldn't be a good idea. During cmdlines.txt would probably be a good time to copy it over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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