Unattended Boot.ini Modifcation

[Erlkönig]

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

[Acheron]

you can specify it in cmdlines.txt:

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

Have fun!

[Tsunami]

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.

[Acheron]

My method will set the installing os as first id.

[pinout]

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

[nakira]

Maybe use AutoIT, it has IniRead/IniWrite commands.

[Alanoll]

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

[pinout]

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.

[cybpsych]

a bit confused here ...

what if i wanted to change from

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

[Kishiro]

@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

[cybpsych]

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

[cybpsych]

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"

[Tsunami]

This should work:

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

[cybpsych]

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

[Br4tt3]

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