How to know wich OS config have been booted from boot.ini

Posted: 05-23-2008, 11:09 AM

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Hi all,

does anyboody know how to obtain the actual "config"? is there any
API?

Or how to know the boot options of a booted system?

i.e. things like if is a safe-boot, vga-mode, baudrate, debug,
debugport...

Regards

Julián

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Don Burn

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Re: How to know wich OS config have been booted from boot.ini

Posted: 05-23-2008, 12:56 PM

In the registry under System\CurrentControlSet\Control there is a value
"SystemStartOptions" that contains the selected boot information.

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Hi all,

does anyboody know how to obtain the actual "config"? is there any
API?

Or how to know the boot options of a booted system?

i.e. things like if is a safe-boot, vga-mode, baudrate, debug,
debugport...

Regards

Julián

Maxim S. Shatskih

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Re: How to know wich OS config have been booted from boot.ini

Posted: 05-23-2008, 02:27 PM

>Or how to know the boot options of a booted system?

SystemStartOptions somewhere in the registry.

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Re: How to know wich OS config have been booted from boot.ini

Posted: 05-26-2008, 07:47 AM

Thank you!

On May 23, 1:56 pm, "Don Burn" <b...@windrvr.com> wrote:

> In the registry under System\CurrentControlSet\Control there is a value
> "SystemStartOptions" that contains the selected boot information.
>
> --
> Don Burn (MVP, Windows DDK)
> Windows 2k/XP/2k3 Filesystem and Driver Consulting
> Website:http://www.windrvr.com
> Blog:http://msmvps.com/blogs/WinDrvr
> Remove StopSpam to reply
>
> "J" <julian.navasc...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:8c0941e4-14bc-437a-9e78-d1242fffbc63@x41g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
> Hi all,
>
> does anyboody know how to obtain the actual "config"? is there any
> API?
>
> Or how to know the boot options of a booted system?
>
> i.e. things like if is a safe-boot, vga-mode, baudrate, debug,
> debugport...
>
> Regards
>
> Julián

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Re: How to know wich OS config have been booted from boot.ini

Posted: 05-26-2008, 07:48 AM

Thank you!

On May 23, 3:27 pm, "Maxim S. Shatskih" <ma...@storagecraft.com>
wrote:

> >Or how to know the boot options of a booted system?
>
> SystemStartOptions somewhere in the registry.
>
> --
> Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
> StorageCraft Corporation
> ma...@storagecraft.comhttp://www.storagecraft.com

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