Two boot menus?

[Kotik]

Been getting two boot menus since a few days back. Both for the same OS. How could i remove one of them? Both do the same thing but once says XP (Boot menu)

I figure its nothing but a boot menu to the name and still does the same thing. Anyhow, any idea what I could do to skip having to wait 30 seconds or having use some calories to press enter once?

[ReFredzRate]

Try opening C:\boot.ini

There should be duplicate lines in there, one of them has to go, but if you remove too much, you're system will not even boot anymore.

If you have found the file, please show me text in the file, you can just post it in this topic. I'll tell you what to remove and what not.

Good luck!

[Kotik]

Try opening C:\boot.ini

Are u sure its not in some windows folder somewhere?

[Kotik]

Found it

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[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional (bootscreen)" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /KERNEL=kernel1.exe
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect


I think I understand what to I should do but I wanna be 100% sure before doing something.

So what do I do?

[ReFredzRate]

You can remove the bottom line:

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multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

It looks a bit weird though, the bottom line, and the line above differ from each other. You should be fine though, removing the bottom line.

[Kotik]

Can I change the name of the upperline? Wont make any difference, right?

[Kotik]

Where is the system log? It said that all the boots are logged. Might be interesting to see how windows logs them.

[ReFredzRate]

I'm not sure if you can change the name of the upper line. Haven't tried that ever yet.

Don't know where the boot logs are stored either. I've never bothered to check out these logs. If Windows dies on me, there's no checking back anyway what went wrong...

[Kotik]

True, Linux beats Windows in this matter. You can always get the OS back to work when it comes to linux.

[ReFredzRate]

True... Maybe Razz knows more about the storage of the boot logs.