December 2017
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If you have multiple Windows OSes on your computer, known as multi-booting, then every time you turn on your computer you will see a boot menu that lists multiple OSes. If you did not know, this is the boot.ini (see Figure 10.3), a text file that enables the boot menu display. It works with OSes from Windows NT to Windows Server 2003. Unlike the MBR, boot.ini is located inside the disk partitions. The path to boot.ini is C:\boot.ini. boot.ini consists of two parts: the bootloader and the operating system.
The former includes a timeout value of 30 seconds and the default OS location, while the latter consists of the OSes and their respective boot entries:
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