Server 2003: No boot menu. How is that possible?

[Guest Milhouse Van Houten]

I'm trying to help someone with a new installation of Server, and something

has come up that's very strange. He insists that when starting the machine

(a Dell PowerEdge 1900) that there is no MS boot menu shown at all. It goes

right from the BIOS data to starting Windows. I had him check boot.ini,

since I suspected the menu delay entry there had been set to 0 somehow, but

it shows 30. We're obviously missing something big and obvious but don't

know what it is. Any ideas? Thanks.

[Guest Darrell Gorter[MSFT]]

RE: Server 2003: No boot menu. How is that possible?

 

Hello,

If there only a single entry in the boot.ini, the boot menu is not

displayed.

Since there is no choice to made with only a single entry, the 30 second

countdown is ignored.

You can duplicate the first entry, so that there are two choices, then you

should see the countdown

Thanks,

Darrell Gorter[MSFT]

 

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|> I'm trying to help someone with a new installation of Server, and

something

|> has come up that's very strange. He insists that when starting the

machine

|> (a Dell PowerEdge 1900) that there is no MS boot menu shown at all. It

goes

|> right from the BIOS data to starting Windows. I had him check boot.ini,

|> since I suspected the menu delay entry there had been set to 0 somehow,

but

|> it shows 30. We're obviously missing something big and obvious but don't

|> know what it is. Any ideas? Thanks.

|>

|>

[Guest Milhouse Van Houten]

Re: Server 2003: No boot menu. How is that possible?

 

Will do, I had forgotten that. Maybe I'll just add a Safe Mode entry, which

I expected would be there by default but isn't.

 

""Darrell Gorter[MSFT]"" <Darrellg@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> Hello,

> If there only a single entry in the boot.ini, the boot menu is not

> displayed.

> Since there is no choice to made with only a single entry, the 30 second

> countdown is ignored.

> You can duplicate the first entry, so that there are two choices, then you

> should see the countdown

> Thanks,

> Darrell Gorter[MSFT]

>

> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights

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> microsoft.public.windows.server.general:21374

> |> X-Tomcat-NG: microsoft.public.windows.server.general

> |>

> |> I'm trying to help someone with a new installation of Server, and

> something

> |> has come up that's very strange. He insists that when starting the

> machine

> |> (a Dell PowerEdge 1900) that there is no MS boot menu shown at all. It

> goes

> |> right from the BIOS data to starting Windows. I had him check boot.ini,

> |> since I suspected the menu delay entry there had been set to 0 somehow,

> but

> |> it shows 30. We're obviously missing something big and obvious but

> don't

> |> know what it is. Any ideas? Thanks.

> |>

> |>

>