Which part of the MBR tells the computer the location of the boot.ini file in windows? Is there any way to manually change this pointer in the MBR to some other location such as, say, my_boot.ini?
Just curious
Question about the Windows boot loader
Question about the Windows boot loader
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Which part of the MBR tells the computer the location of the boot.ini file in windows? Is there any way to manually change this pointer in the MBR to some other location such as, say, my_boot.ini?
Just curious
Which part of the MBR tells the computer the location of the boot.ini file in windows? Is there any way to manually change this pointer in the MBR to some other location such as, say, my_boot.ini?
Just curious
Why not just edit existing boot.ini? 
Actually, there is no reference in MBR to boot.ini. MBR executes ntldr — NT Loader which reads boot.ini, so you need to edit ntldr (I don't even nearly know how this can be possible). You might want to see this.
Actually, there is no reference in MBR to boot.ini. MBR executes ntldr — NT Loader which reads boot.ini, so you need to edit ntldr (I don't even nearly know how this can be possible). You might want to see this.
What version of Windows are you wanting to modify the boot.ini on?
I have never had any problems just using Grub install on Windows XP and previous releases.
But Windows Vista and 7 have their boot loader made differently.
The easy way to modify that boot loader is to download and use Easy BCD to set up boot.ini.
I used it to set up the Windows Vista boot loader to boot to Puppy on a partition on a second IDE hard drive.
I have never had any problems just using Grub install on Windows XP and previous releases.
But Windows Vista and 7 have their boot loader made differently.
The easy way to modify that boot loader is to download and use Easy BCD to set up boot.ini.
I used it to set up the Windows Vista boot loader to boot to Puppy on a partition on a second IDE hard drive.