I tried to install - actually, upgrade from 7100 RC - the Windows 7 RTM. Everything went fine, installation completed, and logon screen appeared - I entered my logon info (domain credentials)... and when I pressed Enter it said:
- logging off
- shutting down
- and then rebooted.
After reboot, there was no Windows 7 boot menu and no boot menu at all - it jumped right into old Windows XP installation that I abandoned when installed Windows 7 RC.
Note that XP is installed on C:, while W7 is on E:. This is how boot.ini looks like now:
;
;Warning: Boot.ini is used on Windows XP and earlier operating systems.
;Warning: Use BCDEDIT.exe to modify Windows Vista boot options.
;
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /FASTDETECT
Boot.ini.saved has the same content.
Yes this blog states that "“in-place” (or direct) upgrades from the Windows 7 RC to RTM will not be supported" but RTM installer actually allows to performs this. UPDATE: yes, I did change "min supported version" from 7322 (or whatever) to 7000 in the installation .ini file. Thus, I do not blame MS or whatever. Just trying to find a solution.
So, is there any way to resolve this except clean Windows 7 installation? Is this a known issue?
UPDATE: here's bcdedit (from W7 on drive E:) output: - is there a way to use it to switch W7 on?
E:\Windows\System32>bcdedit
Windows Boot Manager
--------------------
identifier {bootmgr}
device partition=C:
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-US
inherit {globalsettings}
default {default}
resumeobject {830cc0c5-6cbe-11de-9e38-d784ddd4a91e}
displayorder {ntldr}
{default}
toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}
timeout 3
Windows Legacy OS Loader
------------------------
identifier {ntldr}
device partition=C:
path \ntldr
description Earlier Version of Windows
Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {default}
device partition=E:
path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description Windows 7
locale en-US
inherit {bootloadersettings}
recoverysequence {830cc0c9-6cbe-11de-9e38-d784ddd4a91e}
recoveryenabled Yes
osdevice partition=E:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {830cc0c5-6cbe-11de-9e38-d784ddd4a91e}
nx OptIn
