DOS-style code on boot?

[Danny]

I posted this in another thread, but tbh, I'd like to raise it directly.

Why do I get DOS-style code after the POST and before the Vista loading bar?

It says something about GLRDR but it all goes by quickly. But it looks
really ugly.

I have a folder called 'boot' (hidden) on my d: drive. Thing is, d: is
actually my primary IDE drive. Vista is installed on my SATA channel which,
on my mobo (IC7) cannot be set as primary. So I'm guessing it's put the boot
management on the primary IDE drive (channel 1) and the operating system (on
channel 4) links to it. But it sees that primary IDE drive as d: in Windows
Vista. Saw it as c: in XP.

So, does this explain why I see this ugly loading code? And is there any way
to get rid of it?

 

[Andrew McLaren]

Why do I get DOS-style code after the POST and before the Vista loading

bar?
It says something about GLRDR but it all goes by quickly. But it looks
really ugly.

That's probably "GRLDR" you're seeing (not "GLRDR")?

If so, GRLDR is the Grub Loader, from the Grub4DOS project. This is used in
some versions of Linux - I think Ubuntu and Gentoo, and maybe others. You
probably installed Linux at some stage, and it has left behind some traces
from a dual-boot configuration.

It's hard to give you exact steps how to remove it, without looking at the
machine closely. You'll probably need to examine your boot config and scrape
out any remnants of the Grub loader. On Vista, you may need to use the
bcdedit command, because boot info is no longer kept in the boot.ini file
(as it was on XP, Win2K etc).

Hope this helps
Andrew