Ok, here's my problem. I'm using a P3-500, 512MB of RAM, and a 27GB hard drive. I have NT loaded on a 2GB partition at the beginning of the drive, Red Hat Linux 6.1 loaded on a 4GB second partition (with Lilo loaded in the boot sector of the Linux root partition), and then NT also has control of the last 2 partitions (one is 5GB and the last takes up the rest of the space). I prefer using multiple hard drives for multi-OS booting, but I don't have that option in this situation. I've copied (dd actually in Linux) the first 512 bytes of the boot sector of Linux to a bootsect.lin file, and copied that to my c:\ directory in Windows, and added c:\bootsect.lin="linux" to the end of my boot.ini file. Now, I've done this on 5 other machines, and it worked flawlessly (NTloader starts, you pick Linux, and it boots linux). However, on this one machine, while booting to WindowsNT works just peachy (well, actually once every 5 times or so it locks up at the green screen without giving me the login, and I have to reboot, and then its fine for several more reboots), if I attempt to choose Linux it (it being the NTloader) gives me the following error:
"WinNT could not start because the following file is missing. root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe. Please reinstall a copy of this file"Can anyone explain what this means, and how I fix it? I've tried reinstalling Linux, re-dd'ing the Lilo sector to a file, tried using the full line of commands preceding the bootsect.lin="linux" rather than just c:\ (by full line of commands I mean an exact copy of what you see in front of the WindowsNT option in the boot.ini file), etc. I don't know if there's something else I need to do, or if I need to reinstall the ntoskrnl.exe file (I don't think its something I've done, since it works fine on the other systems that I did the identical process to). And if I have to reinstall the file, how do I do it, and do I have to reinstall the SP6 after doing so? Thank you for your assistance. |
