How to change startup resolution on Windows 2000?

[Mule]

Title says it all. I want to be able to change the startup resolution in windows 2000 to the same resolution as the desktop. By startup resolution I mean the resolution when it says "Starting windows 2000..."

I know there must be some sort of hack to do this.

 

[stash]

If you could do that, it would look weird, since that bitmap is only 640x480 (I believe). So if you bump the res up to say 1024x768, it will be a little bmp surrounded by a black border.

 

[Mule]

that's ok, i just hate reading that fuzzy text

 

[thraxes]

Hammm at that point in the startup there are no videodrivers loaded and hence it uses the simple simon 640x480 VGA standard. I don't think you can change that unless you change the whole boot sequence etc... nice idea though but unfortunately not possible

 

[stash]

You can make the boot screen a little more interesting by editing your boot.ini file.

Go to start, run and type cmd. Change to the root directory of your c: drive by typing cd \. Then type attrib -s -h -r boot.ini. Then type notepad boot.ini

Make your boot.ini look like this:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect /sos /bootlog

Save the file and close notepad. Then type attrib +s +h +r boot.ini

Reboot to see the changes.