[RKinner]

You can see the options in boot.ini from the tab in msconfig. This is where the little black window is told to show up. We are talking a few seconds delay not minutes.

http://vlaurie.com/c...les/bootini.htm

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/289022

The line:
C:\cmdcons\bootsect.dat="Microsoft Windows Recovery Console" /cmdcons

should be present in the boot.ini. So it should look like this:

[boot loader]
timeout=2
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
C:\cmdcons\bootsect.dat="Microsoft Windows Recovery Console" /cmdcons

Usually the timeout is set to 2 seconds but you can change it to 30 if you want to make sure you see the console.

Got to be careful with boot.ini. Easy to keep it from booting.

Ron