[boot scriptor] Re: few questions on bscript

Hi all,

1) DiskEmu is a good enough solution, I've been using it (in the DiskEm1x 
project) for more than a year before using MemDisk in the 911 CD project.
But if you want to use ISOLinux "this will initilize the BIOS built-in floppy 
emulation" try using the full path name  "isolinux /bscript/winme.img".

2) You don't need the demo ISO file, here is the way:
   1- Put your Linux loader in the /bscript/modules/isolinux directory (I've 
tried the zimage and vmlinuz loaders and they both work).
   2- Put your initrd.gz/initrd.img.bz in the bscript directory.
   3- Use the command : isolinux vmlinuz initrd=/bscript/initrd.gz 
ramdisk_size=128000 (maybe you need to add also " root=/dev/cd0" in the end of 
the line, I'm not sure).
      for the zimage loader use : isolinux zimage initrd=/bscript/initrd.img.bz 
mem=8m
   4- If you don't have the Linux files, you can download them from 
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html, it contains a 
downloadable .bin file, rename it to .img and extract the vmlinuz - initrd.gz 
files using WinImage, for the zimage - initrd.img.bz check 
http://www.toms.net/rb/.

3) Bootable MacOS CDs needs a special arrangement, and simply the PowerPC 
processors doesn't handle the BootScriptor code (it is x86 instructions), for 
the BeOS/Solaris idea, if you have the time, you can search google.com about 
bootable CDs on these platforms, this will provide you with enough info on how 
to adapt their methods for BootScriptor.

Regards,
Happy new year *<:o)
Doctor xp

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: LAM Chi-fung 
  To: bscript@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2002 10:38 AM
  Subject: [boot scriptor] few questions on bscript



  Hello all, I am new comer to the list. Just working on bscript boot CD
  and have few problems
  1) from the web, I know that Windows ME floppy can't be loaded by
  memdisk, but can be loaded by diskemu and isolinux,
  Problem: Windows ME boot disk hangs when booted using memdisk.
  Cause: I suspect Windows ME is incompatible with memdisk.
  Expected fix date: Not fixable, but a workaround may be made at some
  point.
  Workaround: You can try the command "isolinux floppy.img" (where
  floppy.img is the
  name of your disk image). This tells isolinux to use your BIOS's
  built-in emulator to
  boot the disk, but may not work on all BIOSes. Also, you can use Diskemu
  to boot
  Windows ME boot floppy images without this problem.

  I can do it with diskemu, but when I test it with isolinux
  i.e. onkey 6 isolinux winme.img

  I got boot> prompt.

  I follow the directory structure of bscript web
   / (root)
   |
   + BSCRIPT
   | |
   | - LOADER.BIN
   | |
   | - BSCRIPT.BIN
   | |
   | - BSCRIPT.INI (startup script, optional)
   | |
   | - BSCRIPT.BMP (splash image, optional)
   | |
   | - BSCRIPT.BSI (splash image, optional)
   | |
   | + MODULES
   |   |
   |   + ISOLINUX
   |   | |
   |   | - MEMDISK (if you want to use the memdisk command)
   |   | |
   |   | - *.* (Linux kernels, or other isolinux-related files)
   |   |
   |   - *.BSM (all module files)
   |   |
   |   - PART.EXE (if you want to use Ranish Partition Manager)
   |
   + *.* (the rest of the files you want on the disk)

  and I place winme.img under bscript folder. I do anything wrong ????

  2) from the web, I find there is a "Linux booting demonstration" disc,
  I was helping a user get Boot Scriptor to boot a Linux kernel and
  created a test disc. If you'd like to see how an example of how to get
  Boot Scriptor to boot a Linux kernel by passing a command to Isolinux,
  then feel free to download the iso and play around with it. It won't be
  there forever though, since it's rather large (~5Mb) and is counting
  against my disk space.

  but not availiable anymore, can anyone point me where to download it ?

  3) apart from Linux, DOS and Windows series, anyone try put other OS
  boot disk in one? eg SUN Solaris on PC, Mac, BeOS etc etc.

  Thanks a lot.

  Regds
  LAM Chi-fung


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