this is a really good topic. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin-xioutlawix+Mar 16 2004, 01:13 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (xioutlawix @ Mar 16 2004, 01:13 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Hehe, I don't know why I tried this again after having such bad luck last time I did it...
I went to themexp.org, and got a bootscreen, nice lil dragon & tiger ying yang one. Followed the instructions, I rebooted in safe mode, I replaced my old ntoskrnl.exe with the new one, and restarted. I see the new bootscreen, but then I get a blue screen saying everything is fux0red. Luckily I remembered having the same problem long time ago, ran recovery console and deleted the new ntoskrnl, restarted as normal, and put the old one back in my windir.
Anyone know why these things don't work for me? Can it be that I'm using xp pro instead of regular?<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Rename the custom one to ntoskrnl2.exe and place it in the same folder as ntoskrnl2.exe, then open boot.ini and copy the line that's similar to: <!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> And add (bootscreen) after "Microsoft Windows XP Professional", and /KERNEL=ntoskrnl2.exe to the end, like so... <!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional (bootscreen)" /fastdetect /KERNEL=ntoskrnl2.exe<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> You'll have to select it on bootup each time, but it's safer. If you want it to be almost instantaneous, you can change "timeout=30" to "timeout=3" under [boot loader]. (Lowest is 3.)
As an example, my boot.ini looks like this. Yours might look different, so don't copy this stuff exactly: <!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->[boot loader] timeout=3 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)" /fastdetect /KERNEL=kernel1.exe multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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I went to themexp.org, and got a bootscreen, nice lil dragon & tiger ying yang one.
Followed the instructions, I rebooted in safe mode, I replaced my old ntoskrnl.exe with the new one, and restarted. I see the new bootscreen, but then I get a blue screen saying everything is fux0red.
Luckily I remembered having the same problem long time ago, ran recovery console and deleted the new ntoskrnl, restarted as normal, and put the old one back in my windir.
Anyone know why these things don't work for me? Can it be that I'm using xp pro instead of regular?<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Rename the custom one to ntoskrnl2.exe and place it in the same folder as ntoskrnl2.exe, then open boot.ini and copy the line that's similar to:
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
And add (bootscreen) after "Microsoft Windows XP Professional", and /KERNEL=ntoskrnl2.exe to the end, like so...
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional (bootscreen)" /fastdetect /KERNEL=ntoskrnl2.exe<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
You'll have to select it on bootup each time, but it's safer. If you want it to be almost instantaneous, you can change "timeout=30" to "timeout=3" under [boot loader]. (Lowest is 3.)
As an example, my boot.ini looks like this. Yours might look different, so don't copy this stuff exactly:
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->[boot loader]
timeout=3
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)" /fastdetect /KERNEL=kernel1.exe
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->