MSFN Forums > problem With "BootCFG" and an "ini" file (W2kPro)

Porteur

Jan 4 2005, 11:22 AM

hi all and Happy New Year 2005

please help Me

BootCFG Doesn't Work with Windows 2000 Pro SP4

Is There an equivalent of "BootCFG" For Windows 2000 Pro ???

I want that the ini is to modify during unattended windows

Thank you for your help

pinout

Jan 4 2005, 12:53 PM

I need this too

Martin Zugec

Jan 4 2005, 01:26 PM

Why not directly modify/rewrite boot.ini?

pinout

Jan 4 2005, 02:36 PM

I need a way to programmatically add a switch like "/sos" to my Windows 2000 entry in the boot.ini. The entry can vary depending on what drive/partition its installed on, so I don't think just copying over a pre-set boot.ini is a good solution.

CODE

[boot loader]
timeout=1
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect

Porteur

Jan 4 2005, 03:53 PM

QUOTE (soulin @ Jan 4 2005, 08:26 PM)

Why not directly modify/rewrite boot.ini?

I want that the ini is to modify during unattended windows

pinout

Jan 4 2005, 07:13 PM

Well after a bit of messing around I came up with a method to do what I wanted, this may help others out.

I wanted to add the "/sos" switch to my Windows 2000 entry so this is how I did it.

You need "CHANGEINI.EXE" which you can get from http://www.thorprojects.com/files/chgini02.zip

BOOTINI.BAT

CODE

@PUSHD "%~dp0" & ECHO OFF
@SET BOOTINI=%SystemDrive%\boot.ini

ATTRIB -A -H -R -S "%BOOTINI%"
COPY /Y "%BOOTINI%" "%BOOTINI%.old"

FOR /F "tokens=1 delims==" %%i IN ('FINDSTR /I /R "Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" "%BOOTINI%"') DO (
CHANGEINI.EXE "%BOOTINI%" "operating systems" "%%i" "\"Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional\" /fastdetect /sos"
)

Porteur

Jan 5 2005, 12:35 AM

QUOTE (pinout @ Jan 5 2005, 02:13 AM)

Well after a bit of messing around I came up with a method to do what I wanted, this may help others out.

I wanted to add the "/sos" switch to my Windows 2000 entry so this is how I did it.

You need "CHANGEINI.EXE" which you can get from http://www.thorprojects.com/files/chgini02.zip

BOOTINI.BAT

CODE

@PUSHD "%~dp0" & ECHO OFF
@SET BOOTINI=%SystemDrive%\boot.ini

ATTRIB -A -H -R -S "%BOOTINI%"
COPY /Y "%BOOTINI%" "%BOOTINI%.old"

FOR /F "tokens=1 delims==" %%i IN ('FINDSTR /I /R "Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" "%BOOTINI%"') DO (
CHANGEINI.EXE "%BOOTINI%" "operating systems" "%%i" "\"Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional\" /fastdetect /sos"
)

Thank you pinout

KNARZ

Jan 5 2005, 03:44 AM

BOOTCFG /RAW /SOS /A /ID 1

cmd... bootcfg /? helps =)

Martin Zugec

Jan 5 2005, 03:56 AM

They were talking about w2k, not wxp...

Slip400

Jan 5 2005, 03:50 PM

ok I want to change my boot to 0,

Bootcfg /Timeout 0

Then What Command I add to my RunOnceEx.cmd?

I want to add the atribute "A" as well