Boot sequence delay

[TheElise]

Is it possible to insert a pause into the boot sequence so that the pc will take an additional 5 seconds to boot?

Reason being is our pc's boot so fast our network connection is not ready and they pc's are unable to login for atleast 5 seconds. So i was wondering if there is any way to add a 5 second delay into the windows boot sequence somehow?

Cheers

 

[TheRecluse]

is 5 seconds that critical?

 

[BASSMASTER]

I would think you could put an entry in your boot.ini file for a delay, but I'm not sure what it would be.

 

[Osiris]

Would you happen to have another partition for like recovery or dual boot?

 

[brady]

right-click My Computer->select Properties, go to Advanced tab, click Startup and Recovery, and change the value for 'Display
list of operating systems for x seconds'

 

[Osiris]

right-click My Computer->select Properties, go to Advanced tab, click Startup and Recovery, and change the value for 'Display
list of operating systems for x seconds'

My thoughts exactly...

 

[BASSMASTER]

Yae but that delay will only happen if theres more than one OS to choose from, which explains Warez's question.

 

[Osiris]

Yup...

 

[brady]

Try to change the default entry in the boot.ini to a larger number.

ex:
[boot loader]
timeout=30 <----- try to change this to "-1"
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

 

[TheMajor]

Try to duplicate your OS entry in the boot.ini.