ntoskrnl

Are you sure it's caused by bugs in the BIOS? How are you sure? As CD is read-only, you can't back the original BIOS up -> really bad if it messes up and you can't put the original one back. If you still want to do it, you'll have to make a DOS boot-CD. I have no idea what boot sector you should use, propably the easiest way is to emulate a floppy. And you could also install DOS temporarily on you HDD to do it. Any specific reasons why you don't want to do it via USB memory or floppy?

As this stuff can also be applied to NT4, and it speeds the boot up quite a bit, I'm using it. Now I'm thinking whether the boot files from XP SP3 or S2k3 SP2 are better/faster, as the XP ones are newer with it's SP3. Do you guys have any clue?