I just did something to do with the BOot.ini file help needed

[thescreensavers]

OK I was following THis and I got to test it and it was just a blue loading bar the pictuere i put was not showing up does any one know how to fix this.

 

[duryodhan]

What you could have done to be safe was to use multiple boot. Keep the orignal ntoskrnl.exe in sytem32. You should save your new ntokrnl.exe as say ntosboot.exe and save it in system32 folder.Now in boot.ini copy and paste the line already present so as to make 2 lines.
for e.g this is the most common line:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional"

Copy and paste above line just below it Add another string after proffessional. Add another parameter in new line after endquote as: viz. : /kernel=ntosboot.exe

Finally it would look like :
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional Hacked"/kernel=ntosboot.exe


Now when you want boot you will so 2 options like in multi-os. Select
the second one to get to the new bootscreen This way when you mess up you can always have the old version by selecting first option.

Now your problem, is the OS loading? I mean after 1/2 minute of blue bar is XP starting? I
If yes,Most probably what you have messed upon is that the guide must be on SP2 and you have non SP2 or vice versa. You may have to try different bitmap numbers. What you could do is download bootscreens available online (google it) and find out what numbers of bitmaps they have changed and change the same.
If OS is not loading then lord save you.
Whenever you change your bootscreen I would recommend using ntosboot.ext method as it's safest.

 

[duryodhan]

Also remember that all bootscreens have to be 16 colours so maybe you haven't kept that in mind.

 

[thescreensavers]

no it boots up I did rename it and never touched the original ntosboot to be safe but the test i did only a blue bar worked nothing elase

 

[duryodhan]

Check compatibility (SP2/Pro/media center etc.) and the number of the bitmap you have changed.

 

[thescreensavers]

I have SP2 so...I changed number 1 which was the xp logo and so I changed it but i only see a blue bar