wally Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 (edited) Hi,I'm having trouble configuring primary and backup OS boots on windows 2003 server####setup####Here's boot.ini from c: drive[boot loader]timeout=30default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS[operating systems]multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows Server 2003, Standard" /fastdetectmulti(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Backup Windows Server 2003, Standard" /fastdetectand boot.ini from d: drive[boot loader]timeout=30default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS[operating systems]multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Backup Windows Server 2003, Standard" /fastdetectThis is disk management once booted to Windows Server 2003, Standard####running####I'm getting first screen saying:Please select operating system to start: Windows Server 2003, Standard Backup Windows Server 2003, StandardI choose backup and I get the error saying:Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem.Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot patch and disk hardware. Please check the windows documentation about hardware disk configuration and your hardware reference manuals for additional informationHowever if I remove the C: disk I'm able to boot from D:has anybody got any ideas what I do wrong? Edited January 16, 2007 by wally Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 The arcpath in second entry in first boot.ini appears to be incorrect, multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWSshould actually be:multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWSCheck this:http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=25365and links therein, basically if you use the "multi" syntax like inmulti(X)disk(Y)rdisk(Z)partition(W)\<winnt_dir>X and Y are ALWAYS 0 (zero)Z is the number of the disk (first disk is 0)and W is the number of partition (first partition is 1)jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wally Posted January 16, 2007 Author Share Posted January 16, 2007 Thanks a lot, I'm not sure why did that work this time (maybe some changes were made after I booted to d: by removing c:) but I had the value you suggested set to 1 before and it didn't work. well anyway thanks a lot you made my day (: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 Well, it was an easy one, happy it worked. jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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