Bootmanager

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Hello,
I installed vista in a mulitboot configuration.
Now I want to conig the bootmanager. I thougt you can config it with
BCDEDIT.exe (...\Windows\system32\) But it is not possible.
I want:
- that my old OS is selected when I start the computer
- less time to choose the OS (standard = 30 sec (very long))
- later I want to install a very old OS systam which will not have such a
bootmanager. I want to integrate it into this bootmanager. So I need to know
how to conig the bootmanger

Thanks, Christian
 
"Christian Meyer" wrote: I'm very sorry. I wrote this question some minutes
before, but there was an error messagen that my message could not be saved in
this community, so I wrote it again, sorry
 
Christian

As for boot order, try

Changed the boot order (was Vista then XP) by:
Control Panel > System > Advanced System Settings > Advanced tab > under
Startup & Recovery > Settings > under System Startup changed the order.

I'm in XP now and can't remember if their were other options here.

Jeff

PS - did you get BCDEDIT.exe to work in Vista? It wouldn't for me.
 
Jeff did you try BCDedit as administator? Right click on the command prompt
icon in the start menu and select 'run as administrator' then type bcdedit.
I think bcdedit is supposed to be run in elevated mode, i.e. administrator.

I think you will find that VistaBootPro will be better than bothering with
BCDedit or editing the original boot ini file via startup and recovery.

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Boot into Vista. Open up a command prompt.

From the command prompt, run BCDEDIT. It will display some of the settings.
One "group" will show your previous operating system. You can tell which
one because the description should be Windows Legacy OS loader with a
description of Windows XP. There will also be a group (first group) called
Windows Boot Manager. It will have a value called default. You need to
change the default value to the identifier in your Windows Legacy OS Loader.
To do this, you have to plug in the correct values into BCDEDIT. Example:

bcdedit /set {bootmgr} default X

where X is the identifier value of Windows Legacy OS Loader. It might be
something like {ntldr}, so the command would then be:

bcdedit /set {bootmgr} default {ntldr}

To change the timeout, you would use:

bcdedit /set {bootmgr} timeout 10

This would make the timeout 10 seconds.

I have Vista installed on a separate partition and am currently running
WinXP. From WinXP, I was able to change the timeout by running the BCDEDIT
in Vista (it pops up a dialog about some entry point not found, but that can
be ignored).
 
Thanks for your answer. I could change the boot order and time to choose.

No, I did not get it to work in Vista, then I tried to get it work in XP :-D
After running BCDEDIT.exe in XP it showed me some information about the
configuration of the bootmanager. But I could not change the properties.
 
Hi John,

Tnx for the tip.

As far as I know the account I created for myself was "administrator." I
typed BCDedit in the search box and rt lick - runs as admin. A DOS looking
windows pops up for a split second and then dissapears.

Will try VistaBootPro next time in in Vista (in XP now).

Tnx

Jeff
 
The best way to run bcdedit is in the recovery mode. Boot from the Vista
DVD, choose "repair my computer" and then get a command prompt up. You can
then run bcdedit.
 
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