[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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