trying to create a WinNT rescue disk

[Jeremy Wilkins]

Just a thought, not really relating to wine.

On my system, the NT boot loader is in the boot sector of the first fat
partition (primary), and is loading via lilo's chain loader without problem.
All the systems I know of have the NT bootloader in the partition, I think
the code in the MBR just directs to the NT loader in a partition.

Have you tried booting from the NT CD and using the repair options (do you
have a current ERD, if not it might be able to fix it anyway). I'd suggest
making a linux boot floppy first though.

Jeremy


"Jim Morash" <jmorash at mit.edu> wrote in message
news:d39f5530.0111081628.719f422f at posting.google.com...
> I have probably a rather unusual problem. I have a computer with WinNT
> already installed on it, plus RedHat7.2, and would like to try and
> create a repair disk for the WinNT install (I'm no longer able to boot
> NT, though I have no problem starting the NT bootloader - after I
> choose Windows NT 4.0 and it starts to boot, I get a BSOD with
> reference to being unable to access the bootloader (which was just
> running...!?). So, I thought I might try and run rdisk.exe and create
> a repair disk, using Wine. The only problem is, I can't get rdisk.exe
> to access the floppy drive. Any suggestions?
>
> From my ~/.wine/config:
>
> [Drive A]
> "Path" = "/mnt/floppy"
> "Type" = "floppy"
> "Label" = "Floppy"
> "Serial" = "87654321"
> "Device" = "/dev/fd0"
>
> I'm not sure whether /mnt/floppy should be mounted or not when trying
> to do this. I tried it both ways and got the same error message from
> rdisk.exe:
>
> "Repair Disk Utlity is unable to get configuration information for the
> floppy drive"
>
> and this spew of stuff in the controlling xterm:
>
> fixme:ntdll:RtlDosPathNameToNtPathName_U
> (L"A:\\",0x406160ac,00000000,00000000)
> fixme:ntdll:NtOpenFile
> (0x406160f0,0x00100003,0x406151cc,0x406151e4,0x00000003,0x00000010)
> stub
> fixme:ntdll:NtQueryInformationFile
> (0x00000000,0x406151e4,0x406151ec,0x00000004,0x00000011),stub!
> fixme:ntdll:NtFsControlFile
>
(0x00000000,0x00000000,(nil),(nil),0x406151e4,0x00090083,(nil),0x00000000,(n
il),0x00000000):
> stub
> fixme:ntdll:NtDeviceIoControlFile
>
(0x00000000,0x00000000,(nil),(nil),0x4061607c,0x00070000,(nil),0x00000000,0x
4061604c,0x00000018):
> empty stub
> fixme:ntdll:NtDeviceIoControlFile
>
(0x00000000,0x00000000,(nil),(nil),0x4061607c,0x00070c00,(nil),0x00000000,0x
40615e4c,0x000001e0):
> empty stub
>
>
> I'm using Google Groups to post this and am pretty rusty on usenet, so
> if you could email me a copy of your response that would make my life
> easier! Thanks very much for your time, whoever reads this.
> --Jim Morash
> jmorash at mit.edu