Guest badamsios Posted July 9, 2007 Posted July 9, 2007 I need to pause windows 2k3 from booting up for 5 minutes. There must be a parameter I can put in the boot.ini but so far I can't find the right keywords for google. how to? Badamsios
Guest Dave Patrick Posted July 9, 2007 Posted July 9, 2007 Re: pause before booting Change the timeout value in boot.ini to 300 -- Regards, Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup. Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft MVP [Windows] http://www.microsoft.com/protect "badamsios" wrote: >I need to pause windows 2k3 from booting up for 5 minutes. There must > be a parameter I can put in the boot.ini but so far I can't find the > right keywords for google. how to? > > Badamsios >
Guest neogeo.au@gmail.com Posted July 9, 2007 Posted July 9, 2007 Re: pause before booting In the boot.ini change timeout=30 to timeout=300 This is 5 minutes. Under the [operating systems], copy the first line to the second, this way no matter what selection you use, you will always boot the OS. On Jul 9, 9:21 am, badamsios <b...@brianandmaryadams.com> wrote: > I need to pause windows 2k3 from booting up for 5 minutes. There must > be a parameter I can put in the boot.ini but so far I can't find the > right keywords for google. how to? > > Badamsios
Guest badamsios Posted July 11, 2007 Posted July 11, 2007 Re: pause before booting On Jul 8, 5:37 pm, "Dave Patrick" <DSPatr...@nospam.gmail.com> wrote: > Change the timeout value in boot.ini to 300 > > -- > > Regards, > > Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup. > Microsoft Certified Professional > Microsoft MVP [Windows]http://www.microsoft.com/protect > > > > "badamsios" wrote: > >I need to pause windows 2k3 from booting up for 5 minutes. There must > > be a parameter I can put in the boot.ini but so far I can't find the > > right keywords for google. how to? > > >Badamsios- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - That was easy... And I have to say to myself... DUH!
Guest Dave Patrick Posted July 12, 2007 Posted July 12, 2007 Re: pause before booting You're welcome. -- Regards, Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup. Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft MVP [Windows] http://www.microsoft.com/protect "badamsios" wrote: > That was easy... And I have to say to myself... DUH! >
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