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Eight boot options ??
Borislav Petkov petko...@googlemail.com fa linux kernel On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:57:06PM +1000, Brad Rosser wrote: Hi Boris, Well, this sounds strange. Are you sure you're entering the boot options correctly on the kernel command line? Which is your boot loader? I just booted my machine with 'hdc=noprobe' (hdc is

xUbuntu...why so many boot options?
Just installed Win2K Pro after wiping the 120 day eval from the dual boot FAT32 drive. Now I have 3 Boot options! Win 98SE, Win 2000 and Win 2000 again. The third option leads to a blank screen with a kernel error. How do I remove this left over boot option from the menu? I'm sure it is just left over trash from

boot options
Thanks for replying No I hav'nt not contacted viewsonic at the moment I have a USB keyboard which it recognizes and can get to boot options I have a flash usb stick and also thought of installing windows via that way...so do u think it will allow to me to boot using this device..what boot option shall I change to

Changing boot options
Is this boot time normal for a laptop? (I remember V4.5 booting on my desktop in about 20 seconds.) Is there anything I can try to speed things up? - Is there an alternative to console debugging? If not, what lines do I comment to make it a permanent boot option? (I followed the article at

can't invoke virtual consoles
1~ 2003-07-06 18:37:42.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.4. 22-pre3/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt 2003-07-06 19:21:06.000000000 +0200 @@ -65,7 +65,8 @@ 0 don't use an NMI watchdog 1 use the IO-APIC timer for the NMI watchdog 2 use the local APIC for the NMI watchdog using a performance counter.

Dual Option At Boot Up (HELP PLEASE!)
Tested on ext3, with and without atime. for compatibility reasons the config option defaults to disabled, so this patch has no impact by default. If CONFIG_DEFAULT_NOATIME is enabled for a kernel then all filesystems will be noatime mounted. The boot and sysctl options are available unconditionally.

Password protect non-default boot options
Richard G. Harper [MVP Win9x] rghar...@email.com microsoft public win98 gen_discussion Right-click My Computer, select Properties, then the Advanced tab, then the Startup and Recovery options. Remove Windows 98 from the boot list, then turn it off. You will then boot directly into Windows 2000.

missing f8 boot option ?
I'm not seeing that, when I hit f8 at start up it brings me to a screen that asks me to choose a boot device? so i choose a device then keep hitting f8 then get to a screen that has 4 start up options for windows. safe mode start windows normal and so on, but no option that mentions drivers at all. what do i need

Lost Boot Menu
The W2K boot, has more in common at this point with the W9x boot, in that you can hit a function key at the start of boot to get to the 'debugging' options. Here you get a VGA boot, and also a basic command line boot. :-) Hence the seperate boot options from WNT4, have disappeared. Best Wishes.

boot options
Now after installing Win2k I get to options to boot up (like in NT 4 regular, and NT 4 VGA boot options). One of them takes me to the Win2k OS system and the other takes me to a screen where it says something like "can't boot from this drive, please consult..." My question is how can I get rid of the second boot

Question about the boot options in Mandrake 9.2?
Next, there supposed to be a screen with announcement "press F8 for advanced boot options", or something like that. INSTEAD, MY SCREEN TURNS BLACK! After a while, I see "welcome" screen of Widnows XP and everything proceeds as normal. Thus, computer boots fine, and as long as everything is OK with it,

Deleting a Boot Option
However, only one of the WinXP options actually boots to Windows. The other two error out claiming the disk does not exist. Can anybody help me understand where the two non-functioning WinXP boot options came from (and how do I get rid of them) and why I have the option to boot to two different Ubuntu kernels (both

Multiple Boot Options
[[If there is only one value in the [Operating Systems] section in the Boot.ini file, the option is not displayed. A description of the Safe Mode Boot options in Windows XP http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx? scid=kb;en-us;315222 ------------------------------- Wesley- Thanks for the quick reply.

How to delete XP partition
Paul Menage men...@google.com fa linux kernel On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 3:55 AM, Balbir Singh <bal...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: A boot option for the memory controller was discussed on lkml. It is a good idea to add it, since it saves memory for people who want to turn off the memory controller.

Mandrake/LILO dual boot options??
It then went through the install procedure over and now when I boot it stops and I get two options to boot like this Windows XP Home Windows XP Home If I select the bottom one every hting boots. The top one stoops saying the C:\windows\system32\hal.dll is corrupt How so you get rid of the one option?

Startup repair not working
Balbir Singh bal...@linux.vnet.ibm.com linux kernel Paul Menage wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 3:55 AM, Balbir Singh <bal...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: A boot option for the memory controller was discussed on lkml. It is a good idea to add it, since it saves memory for people who want to turn off the memory

Dual Boot Options
nicholas nicho...@rapture.com microsoft public win2000 general Simon wrote: Is it possible to have 3 boot options on my home PC? I have: Master drive 6.5Gb - 2 Partitions C: Partition = Windows ME E: Partition = Windows 2000 Slave D: drive 2.4Gb - No software present on drive. I want to install another version of

Advanced Boot Options screen help
Hi Well I have two questions regarding the boot option menu: 1. On one sysyem I have successfully dual booted XP and 2K, but it is XP that is defaulted. Is there any way to make 2K default so it will boot without actually selecting it and pressing keys (after a certain time delay). I know there is a way of reducing

Need Way to Bypass the boot options screen
If you do an F8 boot in Vista 64 one of the options is supppose to allow you use unsigned drivers. I'm not seeing that, when I hit f8 at start up it brings me to a screen that asks me to choose a boot device? so i choose a device then keep hitting f8 then get to a screen that has 4 start up options for windows.

Memory Resource Controller Add Boot Option
Thanks for your comments, Thomas --- Allow to disable the compilation of Simple Boot Flag specification support, which allows Linux to tell the BIOS various boot options. Basically, the patch adds a BOOTFLAG configuration option, on which the compilation of arch/x86/kernel/bootflag.c depends.