Hi, Running XP SP2. I have modified the boot.ini on my reference machine so that the OS choice menu ( XP Pro or Recovery Console) is displayed for 10 secs. I take a ghost image of this and store for reference When I sysprep the machine and it shutsdown- I boot into PXE and take another image of the machine post sysprep machine. Then I deploy this image to another reference computer that has a clean HDD and no previous OS- the boot.ini timeout value has returned to 30 secs. How can I prevent this change from happening when I sysprep? Thanks, DC When I deploy this post sysprepp
Hi DC, My image creation steps are a little different but I have the same problem...timeout is changing from 0 to 30 after sysprep mini setup runs. I have tried to specify in cmdlines.txt to copy the correct boot.ini from a different folder to the root of C with no success. boot.ini remains the same but the timeout changes to 30 seconds. You could always add a batch to runonce reg key to execute a copy of the correct boot.ini..this will be a last resort for me. I'm going to keep researching and I'll post back if I find something. -Adam "CD_XP_SP2" wrote: > Hi, > Running XP SP2. > > I have modified the boot.ini on my reference machine so that the OS choice > menu ( XP Pro or Recovery Console) is displayed for 10 secs. > > I take a ghost image of this and store for reference > > When I sysprep the machine and it shutsdown- I boot into PXE and take > another image of the machine post sysprep machine. > > Then I deploy this image to another reference computer that has a clean HDD > and no previous OS- the boot.ini timeout value has returned to 30 secs. > > How can I prevent this change from happening when I sysprep? > > Thanks, > DC > > When I deploy this post sysprepp
To use cmdlinex.txt you must have the path in sysprep.inf pointing to InstallFilesPath=C:\Sysprep\i386 or whatever your sysprep folder is\i386 w/in i386 you must have $oem$ which includes cmdlines.txt. My path was typoed.. Everything is working as expected! "Adam" wrote: > Hi DC, > > My image creation steps are a little different but I have the same > problem...timeout is changing from 0 to 30 after sysprep mini setup runs. > > I have tried to specify in cmdlines.txt to copy the correct boot.ini from a > different folder to the root of C with no success. boot.ini remains the same > but the timeout changes to 30 seconds. > > You could always add a batch to runonce reg key to execute a copy of the > correct boot.ini..this will be a last resort for me. > > I'm going to keep researching and I'll post back if I find something. > > -Adam > > "CD_XP_SP2" wrote: > > > Hi, > > Running XP SP2. > > > > I have modified the boot.ini on my reference machine so that the OS choice > > menu ( XP Pro or Recovery Console) is displayed for 10 secs. > > > > I take a ghost image of this and store for reference > > > > When I sysprep the machine and it shutsdown- I boot into PXE and take > > another image of the machine post sysprep machine. > > > > Then I deploy this image to another reference computer that has a clean HDD > > and no previous OS- the boot.ini timeout value has returned to 30 secs. > > > > How can I prevent this change from happening when I sysprep? > > > > Thanks, > > DC > > > > When I deploy this post sysprepp
Adam, Thanks for your reply- I didnt think of a runonce.cmdlines.txt. Regards, DC
