Startup weirdness with Mamewah as a shell

[Crowquill]

I followed the directions that everyone has given here and at:

http://www.upup.us/old/2003_09_01_old.html#106469688462437353

Mamewah is running as a shell and seems to work well. The strange part is the booting to get there.

After the BIOS stuff, I get the message:

Please select the Operating System to start:

Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
(Backup Line) Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition

It has a timer and picks the first one 30 seconds later if I do nothing. Then the normal XP loading screen comes up, but it takes at least a minute longer than it did before. Eventually Mamewah comes up and I'm ready to go. I'm just perplexed at why the extra boot time and message.

Any suggestions?

[Minwah]

Try Start > Run > msconfig.  Then click the boot.ini tab and I *think* you can set which OS to default to and the timeout etc...you should be able to get it to not display the menu.

[Crowquill]

I think the multiple OS thing had something to do with using BootXP to change my startup screen. I did what minwah suggested and then I also restored the unmodified boot.ini through BootXP.

The startup time is still another issue. I timed from the moment I pressed the power button until Mamewah came up---3 minutes, 7 seconds. Something's still not right. I'm going to try adjusting some of the services as listed on the archive of blackviper.com.

[Minwah]

The startup time is still another issue. I timed from the moment I pressed the power button until Mamewah came up---3 minutes, 7 seconds. Something's still not right. I'm going to try adjusting some of the services as listed on the archive of blackviper.com.

That is a long time even with all the services running.  Microsoftt Bootvis might help you identify the problem.  Check the obvious things too like how long is the POST taking - maybe disable RAM check etc...

[ahmer]

The startup time is still another issue. I timed from the moment I pressed the power button until Mamewah came up---3 minutes, 7 seconds. Something's still not right. I'm going to try adjusting some of the services as listed on the archive of blackviper.com.

May be there is Scandisk running in the background,If you did not change your harddisk into NTFS file system.
As minwah told you to select One of your operating system by default and turn off the startup and recovery time.

You don't need BootXP to change the XP boot up screen.

Right click 'My Computer' then click Properties. Under the 'Advanced' tab, click Settings next to Startup and Recovery. Click Edit.

After the command /fastdetect add /bootlogo /noguiboot.

Now drop a 16 colour, 640x480 bmp file named boot.bmp into windows root folder.

'/BOOTLOGO
Use this switch to have Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 display an installable splash screen instead of the standard splash screen. First, create a 16-color (any 16 colors) 640x480 bitmap and save it in the Windows directory with the name Boot.bmp. Then add "/bootlogo /noguiboot" to the boot.ini selection'