Repair from the CD

I'd like to get the Repair console from the CD rather than from the emergency disks. I've rearranged the BIOS to boot first from the CD, and I get the blinking cursor for a few seconds before the machine boots normally from the HD. On my wife's XP laptop, I hit enter at the blink to boot from the CD, but that seems to do nothing with the Win2K disk. How do I get the Repair Console the easy way?
O.

 

My choice is the option shown Here for adding the thing to your hard drive contents and an additional boot.ini option.

 

Thanks, Newt: that worked well!

Incidentially, my copy of boot.ini now offers a lot of options: too many. I'd like to ediit out a couple of old disk images I've lost track of. I can't get VEDIT to open the file, even when I change the attributes. Something about this file I ought to know?
Regards,
O.

 

Boot.ini is usually set as system, hidden, read-only. It's probably the read-only bit that has you blocked.

FWIW, I normally tweak the file using notepad since it is a text file. Save a copy (boot.ini.sav or something) just in case things go wrong.

If you have boot options you don't want or need you can just delete the line(s).