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Question concerning boot process
Go rename kernel.old to kernel.GENERIC (if kernel.GENERIC doesn't already exist) because each time you make a kernel, kernel.old gets overwritten with kernel. You don't want to lose a kernel that you know will boot. Then reboot. This stuff is in The Complete FreeBSD, and you really should get a copy,

renaming boot files
Frank Ostrowski fr-...@web.de comp os ms-windows misc borgc...@swbell.net (6 of 10 Tertiary Adjuncy to Unimatrix 5) wrote: I have a question, every now and again on boot up my computer will display the message: Please wait while windows updates your configuration files... yadda yadda yadda The thing is the two

DOS boot question
INI during system boot. After WININIT.INI has been processed, the system names it WININIT.BAK. To delete or rename a file, you must have either delete permission on the file or delete I now know (thank-you, David Candy) that /q is not a valid switch which does throw all the other information into question.

Macintosh SE .....will not boot
Rename the Winnt.sif file to Winnt.bak on BackOffice Small Business Server (SBS) Setup Disk 2. It is recommended that you create a backup set of boot floppy disks for this procedure. Final question . . . where are the ERD files that would not go on the diskette stored. Regards, Peter Smith. --

WIN2KPRO and XP PRO DUAL BOOT QUESTION
James Liles JLil...@newsguy.com alt windows98 On Tue, 02 Mar 1999 03:56:37 GMT, "Theron" <tskr...@home.com> wrote: ->No , I want to know which files I must delete or rename to stop the OS from ->trying to boot, yes as a primary partion thats visible at the same time. ->Also I have partition magic at my disposal,

Newbie Question: Launching Apache Web Server in SuSE Pro 8.1
NEB.4.10.9909292211460.2434-100...@starwolf.com> Greywolf writes: Hey, can I ask another Real Stoopid [TM] question? What's the point of symlinking bootblocks? They're gonna have to be on the same device anyway in order for the symlink to resolve [ie the bootblocks know jack about where other devices will be

Multi-boot question
Eric Legge legge...@aol.comnojunk alt windows95 Subject: Another boot question From: "laserdog" GSa...@mycolumbus.rr.com Date: 03/04/03 09:55 Pacific Standard There could be commands in those two files that are doing that, so use Find to locate them, right click on each file and try renaming it by changing its

A Dual-boot question; I thought C was always the partition ...
I really have two basic questions, which I am sure any exerienced linux user can easily solve. So, here goes: 1) I want to rename a existing text file. Help. type 'apropos rename' and see what you get. You want to do 'mv password.c password.cpp' 2) When I boot up my system it goes straight to the gui gnome

Multipart Disk upgrade question.
This often delays the boot by 5-10 seconds. This is a bugger to eliminate. I finally had to ask for help in one of the MS ng's. Most of the advice did not work. However, one guy finally hit it on the head. The successful procedure entailed renaming 3 vxd files associated with the MS backup program.

Recovery Console Question
With a bit of wizardry you could do away with the "C:" partition and have "D:" become the active (System) partition but you cannot rename the "D:" drive to "C:". My question is: Can I simply format that 6G drive and just reassign the drive letter? (to E:) Can I also reassign the Drive Letter of the current D:

Dual Boot Question
I then use mc to copy the config and System.map files to the /boot directory (renaming them to something appropriate like config-2.6.0 and System.map-2.6.0) and then change to the /arch/i386/boot subdirectory in the source tree and copy bzImage to /boot, renaming it to vmlinuz-2.6.0 in the process.

Boot time question
Allan Mitchell a_mitch...@bigfoot.com microsoft public sqlserver server SQL Server on boot after the name change of the server will tell you that you're After renaming the failover server sql came back with a message on start-up telling me that the installation was corrupt and the sql services failed to start.

Question : Can i dual boot XP twice on the same PC?
So my question is: Can i reinstall linux from the cd rom and get the LILO to boot to Linux, AND Winblows98? If so, what is the command to get it to go to All you have to do is add your old Linux installation, renaming the new one 'rescue' or something. This way you won't have to overwrite your existing

dual boot by mistake - can I just rename the drives?
My question is: Can I simply format that 6G drive and just reassign the drive letter? (to E:) Can I also reassign the Drive Letter of the current D: drive which holds the XP O/S so it will become my C: drive and operate "normally"? I would then reassign the current E: drive to the now available D:.

win98SE regedit question/boot messages questions
Lowell Gilbert lguse...@be-well.ilk.org comp unix bsd freebsd misc tom misiak <ridefor...@nc.rr.com> writes: Can the boot manager menu be customized once installed? I'd like to rename some of the boot partitions in the menus for both of my ide drives. Not really. See the FAQ for details.

Continuous Boot Up Loop
(I've modified this to take into account the likely need for the replacement drive to be a DOS boot drive with the OS) This version of the note is .... Maybe this is a naive question, but is there a simple way to clone the old disk (a single volume plus a 10 MB DOS partition) to the new one and just go on as before

newbie question
... to run before WinInit.exe in the boot-process. "It" erroneously (żor on purpose?) renames the .ini file to .sav instead of .bak, so by the time it's WinInit.exe turn there's no ini-file to read (& nothing to rename). </speculation> -- Please followup in newsgroup. E-mail address is invalid due to spam-control.

Changing 3.12 server harddrive
Now, does this mean that my new kernel is just bad, or is it because I cheated and tried renaming the default one? Am I not allowed to do that? Did you not (re)run lilo? When you run the lilo program, it figures out physically where (on the disk) the bootable kernels live, and writes that information to the boot

Dual-boot question with Win98/Win2k
When you boot, the kernel loads, then runs init, using /etc/inittab as init's configuration file. /etc/inittab specifies runlevel 2 as the default For example: * rename "/etc/rc2.d/S20samba" to "/etc/rc2.d/NoS20samba" or better "/etc/rc2.d/K20samba" * move the "/etc/rc2.d/S20samba" to another location such as

Question concerning boot process
That's not a dumb question! ... and you did install GS/OS on the FIRST partition, I assume. I went up and checked, the exact error I'm getting is "Unable to Just copy the PRODOS file from an existing boot disk into the root directory; you might want to rename the existing PRODOS file (GS/OS boot loader) if you