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cokehabit
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 Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 11:33 pm Post subject: seeing boot sequence in windows |
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| Is there any way to see the boot or shutdown sequence in windows? |
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| Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 11:54 pm Post subject: |
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you can look at some of the debug as it boots in safe mode. In all reality all it does is list the drivers it loads.
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cokehabit
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| Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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| bunder wrote: | | enable boot logging? |
in windows? |
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| Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 9:38 pm Post subject: |
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| cokehabit wrote: | | bunder wrote: | | enable boot logging? |
in windows? |
yes. If it is an XP machine, goto RUN and type "msconfig". Under the BOOT.INI tab is a boot logging option
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| Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 10:01 pm Post subject: |
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/sos and /noguiboot to the boot.ini line
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/833721
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cokehabit
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| Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 3:26 pm Post subject: |
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shit! you can do far more with that than grub or lilo  |
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Naib
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| Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 4:01 pm Post subject: |
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| cokehabit wrote: | | shit! you can do far more with that than grub or lilo |
Except Grub/Lilo/Linux-kernel works...
Those Boot.ini switches are more for turning things off,debugging,logging as oposed to just working. I mean /maxmem=number
This switch specifies the amount of RAM, in bytes, that Windows can use. For example, if you want Windows to use less than 64 MB of memory, use the /maxmem=64 switch.
Why would you want to limit RAM... Well actually I know of one case but it was for developing applications when there is limited RAM (ie it is easier/quicker to fill 100meg then it is 2gig... so don't address over 100meg if you want to test)
but you see my point
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| Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 4:36 pm Post subject: |
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Running windows on 16mb of ram is fun tho! 
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| Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Naib wrote: | | cokehabit wrote: | | shit! you can do far more with that than grub or lilo |
Except Grub/Lilo/Linux-kernel works...
Those Boot.ini switches are more for turning things off,debugging,logging as oposed to just working. I mean /maxmem=number
This switch specifies the amount of RAM, in bytes, that Windows can use. For example, if you want Windows to use less than 64 MB of memory, use the /maxmem=64 switch.
Why would you want to limit RAM... Well actually I know of one case but it was for developing applications when there is limited RAM (ie it is easier/quicker to fill 100meg then it is 2gig... so don't address over 100meg if you want to test)
but you see my point |
I don't remember if it was /maxmem or another switch, but on one of the servers at my old job, we had to use one of those switches to enable over 2 (or 4) GB of memory for Windows to use. |
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| Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Naib wrote: | | cokehabit wrote: | | shit! you can do far more with that than grub or lilo |
Except Grub/Lilo/Linux-kernel works...
Those Boot.ini switches are more for turning things off,debugging,logging as oposed to just working. I mean /maxmem=number
This switch specifies the amount of RAM, in bytes, that Windows can use. For example, if you want Windows to use less than 64 MB of memory, use the /maxmem=64 switch.
Why would you want to limit RAM... Well actually I know of one case but it was for developing applications when there is limited RAM (ie it is easier/quicker to fill 100meg then it is 2gig... so don't address over 100meg if you want to test)
but you see my point |
Unfortunately thats probably there from the 9x days when it would flake out if you gave it to much RAM...
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| Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 3:35 am Post subject: |
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| can't you just do the F8 safe mode thingy, and see all the random files being loaded? its not like windows services are hard to identify with their clear and obvious names ... :roll: |
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bunder
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| Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 3:38 am Post subject: |
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| shickapooka800 wrote: | can't you just do the F8 safe mode thingy, and see all the random files being loaded? its not like windows services are hard to identify with their clear and obvious names ...  |
yeah but sometimes its nice to see how it boots in normal mode. 
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