Hi everybody,

does anyone know how to add the /noguiboot switch to the boot.ini,

so that i would never see the windows boot screen, when i install my winxp.

So is there any way to replace the boot.ini, with a modified one or to add the switch

unattended.

ThX a lot,

Greetings,

Erlkönig

you can specify it in cmdlines.txt:

[COMMANDS]
"bootcfg /Default /ID 1"
"bootcfg /Addsw /NG /ID 1"

Have fun!

BOOTCFG /RAW "/NOGUIBOOT" /A /ID 1

will add /noguilogo to the first OS in boot.ini.

Edit: doh, too late hp38guser's commands will work too.

My method will set the installing os as first id.

BOOTCFG only works for XP, anyone know something similar for 2000?

Maybe use AutoIT, it has IniRead/IniWrite commands.

i thought bootcfg works on 2000, just that it's not included with 2000.

Alanoll, I don't think it does... I'm pretty sure long ago I tried taking bootcfg from XP and using it on 2000 and it wouldn't let me run it.

Maybe I'll try it again.

a bit confused here ...

what if i wanted to change from

/noexecute=optin -=> /noexecute=AlwaysOff ???

@cybpsych

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@echo off

bootcfg /raw "/Execute /fastdetect" /id 1

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This disables DEP (Data Execution Prevention) completely. I use it on my unattended WindowsXP CD, and it works like a charm

thanks Kishiro,

i'm not sure what the /Execute switch do, but i've corrected it to be this way:

bootcfg /raw "/noexecute=AlwaysOff /fastdetect" /id 1

thanks again!

*EDIT* OK, found out that /Execute is the reverse of /noexecute ... use /noexecute if you want to determine the switch above or just put /Execute to remove it totally

Kishiro, your code is fine ... sorry for my previous reply

For all, here's an explanation guide to the switches available for boot.ini.

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/info/bootini.shtml

hi again ... having trouble with boot.ini ..

what i have here is this for my cmdlines.txt:

[COMMANDS]
"RunOnceEx.cmd"
"UserAccounts.cmd"
"IESmallIcon.cmd"
"REGEDIT /S RegTweaks.reg"
"bootcfg /raw "/Execute /fastdetect" /id 1"

the bootcfg command didn't modify the string at all ...

should i ammend it to be this?:

[COMMANDS]
"bootcfg /raw \""/Execute /fastdetect\"" /id 1"

This should work:

[COMMANDS]
"RunOnceEx.cmd"
"UserAccounts.cmd"
"IESmallIcon.cmd"
"REGEDIT /S RegTweaks.reg"
"BOOTCFG /RAW \"/EXECUTE /FASTDETECT\" /ID 1"

ok now is see what has confused me

lemme try again in VM ...

*UPDATE* No luck, it's not added to boot.ini at all.

The only way i tested working is through batch file and point it from cmdlines.txt

think u can obtain BBD 2.0 from MS webby freely, contains script for modifying the boot.ini.....