It seems after installing SP2, the /SOS flag no longer works on my
system. I had it set to show me the drivers loading at bootup because I
preferred this to the Windows XP splash screen. Upon installing SP2, I
rebooted and found the splash screen back ... though, my boot.ini file still
shows that the /SOS flag is still present ... The line reads:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect /SOS /NoExecute=OptIn

I've googled and searched MS's site ... Any ideas?

TIA

"mhicaoidh" <®êmõvé_mhic_aoidh@hotÑîXmailŠPäM.com> wrote in
news:C53Xc.58507$Fg5.25183@attbi_s53:

You have done it now. Now, you'll have to rebuild the machine. ;-)

All these little issues with SP 2 has me waiting for a couple of months,
until MS can apply hot fixes to settle things down.

Duane

Taking a moment's reflection, Duane Arnold mused:
|
| You have done it now. Now, you'll have to rebuild the machine. ;-)

God! No! ;-)

| All these little issues with SP 2 has me waiting for a couple of months,
| until MS can apply hot fixes to settle things down.

I was in that camp too ... until I got an opportunity to update my boss'
laptop to SP2. The install went flawlessly, and only had a little issue
with SP2 blocking all loopback addresses save for 127.0.0.1 ... however, MS
already had a hotfix for it.

So, I decided to put it on my main XP installation. Again, flawless ...
but I have noticed a couple of changes (like the /SOS flag above). Nothing
serious, though.

Taking a moment's reflection, mhicaoidh mused:
|
| It seems after installing SP2, the /SOS flag no longer works on my
| system. I had it set to show me the drivers loading at bootup because I
| preferred this to the Windows XP splash screen. Upon installing SP2, I
| rebooted and found the splash screen back ... though, my boot.ini file
| still shows that the /SOS flag is still present ... The line reads:
|
| multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP
| Professional" /fastdetect /SOS /NoExecute=OptIn

Apparently, the fix was quite simple. I simply had to move the /SOS
flag to the end of the line.