[virt-tools-list] vm fails to boot, need to modify guest registry

Kenny Armstrong karmstrong at gmx.us
Mon Aug 22 16:55:08 UTC 2011


I'll give that a shot.  Someone else suggested changing the disk order 
in the xml file, but when I run guestfish on each disk, the order is 
already correct in the xml file.

I'll dig into the boot.ini idea.

-Kenny

On 08/22/2011 11:57 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 11:03:03AM -0400, Kenny Armstrong wrote:
>> Nevermind, just realized the error in the question.  Windows needs
>> to boot in order to read anything from the registry, however we
>> can't even get that far.
> Did W2K3 use BCD or BOOT.INI?  If it was old enough to use BOOT.INI
> then you might try editing it:
>
> # guestfish -i -d WinXPRecConsole
>> <fs>  edit /boot.ini
> and I think change all disk(0) ->  disk(1) (or maybe rdisk(0) ->  rdisk(1)?)
>
> Rich.
>




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