minime2k9 wrote:
I can't boot into the machine, we have liveview but it fails on this.
If we have both a boot.ini and a Boot folder, which takes priority?
It depends on which OS loader is invoked.
XP's (and NT and 2k) OSloader is NTLDR.
NTLDR ONLY loads BOOT.INI.
In BOOT.INI you can specify two types of entries:
an ArcPath (i.e. something like "multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect")
a bootsector (or bootsector like file, like "C:\CMDCONS\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft Windows Recovery Console" /cmdcons"
Vista and later use BOOTMGR instead.
The main configuration file for BOOTMGR is the \boot\BCD BUT it also accesses the BOOT.INI, ignoring any entry with an ArcPath but adding the bootsector entries to the choices displayed on screen (coming form \boot\BCD settings).
jaclaz
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