Jadestar Posted May 13, 2010 Share Posted May 13, 2010 I have a custom boot.ini file that does the showgui and all that jazz. Anyway, the procedure I use right now is to delete the current boot.ini after first boot and copy my custom to the C drive. This works MOST of the time but in some cases it breaks and the boot file gets weird...some ppm flag gets put in there aswell as a bad default entry that leads to a hall.dll error (unless you choose the right boot). Not sure what that problem is but manually replacing the boot.ini file seems to work.So my question is, can I put my custom boot.ini file in the installation media itself so that when windows installs, it puts MY boot.ini file on C: instead of the one it would normally create?Thanks, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HØLLØW Posted May 15, 2010 Share Posted May 15, 2010 (edited) Hi Jadestar,you can easily use the command "bootcfg" to add the switches you want to your "boot.ini" file.An example:bootcfg /raw "/PAE /3GB /USERVA=3072" /a /ID 1The command "/raw" says, that the following switches "/PAE /3GB /USERVA=3072" should be added, the "/a" after that says, that the switches should be added to the existing switches in your "boot.ini" and not to overwrite them. "/ID 1" is the "ID" of your "boot.ini" entry which starts at "1".Hope I could help you. Edited May 15, 2010 by HØLLØW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 If I may, a small addition, there are two "BOOTCFG" programs, one in Recovery Console and one in "normal" XP with slightly different behaviour/switches.Most of the references you find around, including those on MS site are for the RC version, here is reference for BOTH:http://ss64.com/nt/bootcfg.htmlIt seems like it's use is documented for XP only from RC :http://support.microsoft.com/kb/291980/en-uswhilst on Server2003 it is detailed for both programs:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/317521/en-usThese are also interesting:( the "normal" bootcfg is in XP PRO but not in Home)http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;289022http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303980/en-usjaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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