Here is what I did
I copied the boot.ini and 2 NT files onto a diskette. The diskette was formatted to be a system disk. I read that the broken PC will read off of that. And it does.. BUT it takes me to the a:\ prompt. I don't have the Recovery Console installed, so I can't get to that. I have tried booting in Safe Mode, that gives me the same results. I have tried booting from the last good configuration, that gave me the same results.
I have found many forums with people having the same problems. EXACTLy. but their solutions always mention going into the registry... But I can't even get to it - it order to change it. It is possible I don't know the correct commands.