Windows Server 2008 Boot Manager

Server 2008 Boot Manager

Realtime Community | Windows Server — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:41:34 GMT

Server 2008 doesn't use boot.ini any more, instead using a tool called bcdedit.exe to handle manipulating boot device information. Today, Arlindo's blog discusses using the bcdedit.exe tool to do minor boot device ordering on a multi-boot system. He also

Windows Server 2008 blogposts from the Belgian IT Pro community

[MSFT-BE] Arlindo's Blog - IT Pro Evangelist — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 14:16:42 GMT

Here is a list of what some of our Belgian IT Pro Bloggers are saying/blogging about Windows Server 2008.

re: Windows Server 2008 Boot Manager

Pat-Keone — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:49:28 GMT

Isn't there a Vista ProEdit, that was used when the Beta Testing was in order?

I run into the same problem. My Win 2000 Server can no longer reference to the old boot.ini.

Can u folks let me know later? I just installed the Long Horn, but have not tweaked it yet. Thanks.

re: Windows Server 2008 Boot Manager

Dale Unroe — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:24:10 GMT

I've been unable to launch EasyBCD (currently v1.7.2) from within the Core installation of Server 2008. It installed but didn't launch.

Thanks for this short tutorial. Although I wasn't able to easily do all the modifications I desired I was at least able to change which OS loads by default and this is critical that Core loads by default since it runs headless.

re: Windows Server 2008 Boot Manager

Dale Unroe — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:29:38 GMT

BTW - running "bcdedit /v /enum" will provide the BCDID's