Dual Booting Server 2008 RC1 with windows server 2003

[Guest Adamu Garba]

Hi all,

 

Can any samaritan help. I try booting windows server 2003 with windows

server 2008 RC1 and after reaching the boot.ini menu, the list of the OSs

are displayed, when i select any one of them, the system will not continue

booting and no error message is displayed. The boot order is: Server 2008

RC1 was first installed then followed by Server 2003. is it possible for me

to boot both the two together? if it is; what is it that i ma missing?

 

Thanks in Advance.

Adamu Garba

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: Dual Booting Server 2008 RC1 with windows server 2003

 

 

"Adamu Garba" <adamu.garba@daddogroup.com> wrote in message

news:CDF19037-E75C-4812-8399-44CC0E053649@microsoft.com...

> Hi all,

>

> Can any samaritan help. I try booting windows server 2003 with windows

> server 2008 RC1 and after reaching the boot.ini menu, the list of the OSs

> are displayed, when i select any one of them, the system will not continue

> booting and no error message is displayed. The boot order is: Server 2008

> RC1 was first installed then followed by Server 2003. is it possible for

> me to boot both the two together? if it is; what is it that i ma missing?

>

> Thanks in Advance.

> Adamu Garba

 

- Where exactly are the two OSs installed?

- What is the contents of c:\boot.ini?

[Guest John John]

Re: Dual Booting Server 2008 RC1 with windows server 2003

 

Adamu Garba wrote:

> Hi all,

>

> Can any samaritan help. I try booting windows server 2003 with windows

> server 2008 RC1 and after reaching the boot.ini menu, the list of the

> OSs are displayed, when i select any one of them, the system will not

> continue booting and no error message is displayed. The boot order is:

> Server 2008 RC1 was first installed then followed by Server 2003. is it

> possible for me to boot both the two together? if it is; what is it that

> i ma missing?

 

Does server 2008 still boot? Server 2008 and 2003 use different boot

mechanisms.

 

Boot Configuration Data Editor Frequently Asked Questions

http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/library/85cd5efe-c349-427c-b035-c2719d4af7781033.mspx?mfr=true

 

VistaBootPRO

http://www.vistabootpro.org/

 

When you installed Server 2003 it *should* have rewritten the MBR and

dislodged the Server 2008 Boot code and allowed you to boot the

installation but there might have been a glitch. In any case, the

Server 2003 boot manager (ntldr) cannot boot Server 2008, so you will

have to use the newer 2008 boot manager to be able to boot both

installations.

 

John