[boot scriptor] Re: CD Shell Hotkeys

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Henderson" <hendersj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bscript@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2003 8:12 am
Subject: [boot scriptor] CD Shell Hotkeys


>
> Hi,
>
> Great tool, I've been working with CD Shell for a couple of days with
> the intention of accomplishing a couple of tasks:
>
> 1.  Generating a CD that allows me to select one of a number of boot
> diskette images - obviously exactly what this tool is intended to do.
>
> 2.  Making it possible to push down the virtual diskette images to a
> system via PXE after the system has loaded a minimal Linux system used
> for an imaging package I'm working with.
>
> My first issue has to do with the hotkey feature.  My script contains
> the following lines:
>
> loadmodule /cdsh/modules/hotkey.csm
> hotkey name F2
> hotkey description Boot Powercast Client for FS1
> hotkey keycode 0x3B00
> hotkey flags 0x00
> hotkey action memdisk fs1cast.vfd
> hotkey activate
>
> When the script runs, it shows the hotkey fine, but when I press the F2
> key, I get the response "unrecognized command" or "unknown command"
> (don't have it right in front of me but that's what I recall the message
> being)
>
> I'm clearly doing something wrong, but I'm not sure what.
>
> My second issue is maybe a little out of scope for this tool, but maybe
> someone could point me at a tool that can accomplish what I want.
>
> I'm trying to set up a way to handle this boot through PXE, but the
> product I have available does not include a tool to make PXE bootdisks
> (it uses the Preworx stuff) - but it does boot a Linux kernel.

I think your solution is to use PXELinux (Part of the SYSLinux suite) then
use the older BootScriptor version (v1.1) that loads from inside SysLinux to
run the scripts needed.

>
> In working with memdisk with Bootscriptor and CD Shell, it seems that I
> might be able to use this tool from inside the Linux kernel that's
> booted as a start to this other imaging process; does anyone here know
> of a way to do this with either memdisk or diskemu?
>
> Is there a way I could combine the functionality of CD Shell or
> Bootscriptor to work with a PXE startup, preferably after the initial
> Linux image is loaded?
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions on either issue.
>
> Jim
>
>
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