I have a Compaq Aramda 7730MT portable computer I must install Win NT on. I must run a program which runs only under NT.

The Compaq has a 12 MB partion on it (EISA partion) which is non-Dos and contains compaq utilities. It is partion 1.

I loaded the CD-ROM drive into the computer and started the Win NT Workstation Install Disk. I called for the operating system to be installed on C: drive, under FAT16.

All went fine until the point were the install procedure goes from character based to graphics based. The install routine asks you to remove the CD-ROM and to allow the computer to boot.

I got a NTOSKRNL.EXE is missing or corrupt error at this point.

I checked MSDN and found a paper from from Microsoft which stated that this error will occur when NT is being installed on a drive other than c: (which is not the case) and the primary drive is formatted in the FAT system (which may not be true).

Their fix was to edit the boot.ini to change the partion number number, that is from :
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\winnt="Windows NT version 4.0"
to what ever it was - say
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\winnt="Windows NT version 4.0"

Since the Compaq has a non-DOS partition already assigned to their utilities the C: FAT16 partion is 2, so I edited the boot.ini file as shown.

There is also a default setting in boot.ini which also contained the partition(1) construct which I changed to partition(2).

This got me passed the NTOSKRNL.EXE is missing/corrupt error.

However now I blue screen into a :

STOP: 0x0000006B (0xC000003A,0x00000002,0x00000000,0x00000000)
PROCESS1_INITIALIZATION_FAILED

error. MSDN and Compaq have been of little help for this one.
there was an explanation of a
STOP: 0x0000006B (0xC0000034,0x00000002,0x00000000,0x00000000)
PROCESS1_INITIALIZATION_FAILED

error in MSDN which implied I had a corrupt file, and another which said I had turned off FastFAT in the settings of NT, neither of which appear too promising.

I have reloaded the operting system a number of times, reformatted the drive a number of times, deleted and re-added the partitions a number of times - all with the same result.

Any suggestions ?