[syslinux] question
Prof S W Damle
swdamle at bsnl.in
Fri Jan 11 04:47:27 PST 2013
>on 08Jan2013 Bernd Blaauw and H.Peter Anwin wrote,
>The following installers are present in 5.00 :
* syslinux.com (DOS, possibly win9x)
>Syslinux.com/exe have always been present.
Win9x/ME should use the DOS installer.
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I am working fine with Dos installer from Win98se in Syslinux-4.06.
However feel sorry to say that Dos installer from Win98se in
Syslinux-5.00 FAILS.
(i) My Transcend 4GB USB is detected as O:,
(ii)I have WinXP installed on F: and Win98se installed on C:
(iii) in order to Upgrade from "Syslinux-4.06" to "Syslinux-5.00"
The batch file used is as follows:
:: use Installed "4gb406"
cd c:\unzipped\syslinux-5.00\COM32\MENU
copy Menu.c32 O:
copy Vesamenu.c32 O:
cd C:\Unzipped\syslinux-5.00\COM32\CMENU\LIBMENU
copy libmenu.c32 O:
cd C:\Unzipped\syslinux-5.00\COM32\CHAIN
copy Chain.c32 O:
cd C:\Unzipped\syslinux-5.00\COM32\LIB
copy LIBCOM32.C32 O:
cd C:\Unzipped\syslinux-5.00\COM32\LUA\SRC
copy LIBLUA.C32 O:
cd C:\Unzipped\syslinux-5.00\COM32\LIBUTIL
copy libutil_com.c32 O:
cd C:\Unzipped\syslinux-5.00\MEMDISK
copy memdisk O:
copy memdisk O:\DiskImages
copy memdisk O:\FloppyImages
copy memdisk O:\test
copy memdisk O:\ISOimages
::copy Syslinux.cfg O:
pause
:: DELETE O:\syslinux MANUALLY
mkdir o:\syslinux
cd C:\Unzipped\syslinux-5.00\DOS
syslinux -d syslinux o:
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Passes remark >illegal operation and will be terminated.
On Restsrt, >boot error.
(iv)contents of my "syslinux.cfg are as follows:
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default vesamenu.c32
MENU TITLE Bootable Menu
#MENU COLOR element ansi foreground background shadow
# see chart below
#"foreground" and "background" are color codes in #AARRGGBB
# notation, where AA RR GG BB are hexadecimal digits for alpha
# (opacity), red, green and blue, respectively. #00000000
# represents fully transparent, and #ffffffff represents opaque
# white.
#
#If any field is set to "*" or omitted (at the end of the line)
# then that field is left unchanged.
# element ANSI foreground background shadow
# #AARRGGBB #AARRGGBB none, std, all,
or rev
menu color screen 37;40 #ffffffff #00000000 none
#menu color border 30;40 #00000000 #00000000 none
menu color border 30;40 #50ff8000 #00000000 none
##ffff8000 #20ff8000
menu color title 1;36;40 #c0ff00f0 #00000000 none # Original
>(black),Magenta (SWD) ##blue ori
#menu color title 1;36;44 #ff0000ff #00000000 std
## (black), nu blue
# menu color title 1;36;40 #c000ffff #00000000 none
# Modified >(black), cyan
menu color unsel 37;40 #90ffffff #00000000 none
#letters white
#MENU COLOR unsel 37;44 #ff0000ff #00000000 none # letters nu
blue >NOT useful !!
menu color hotkey 1;37;40 #ffffffff #00000000 none
menu color sel 30;47 #ff00ff00 #00000000 none # NO bar,
(black), letters green
# menu color sel 30;47 #90ffffff #20ff8000 none
# brown bar(#20ff8000), letters white
# menu color sel 30;47 #ffff0000 #00000000 none
# NO bar, (black), letters red
menu color hotsel 1;7;30;47 # ffffffff #20ff8000 none
menu color scrollbar 30;40 #40000000 #00000000 none
menu color tabmsg 31;40 #90ffff00 #00000000 none
menu color cmdmark 1;36;40 #c000ffff #00000000 none
menu color cmdline 37;40 #c0ffffff #00000000 none
menu color pwdborder 30;47 #80ffffff #20ffffff none
menu color pwdheader 31;47 #80ff8080 #20ffffff none
menu color pwdentry 30;47 #80ffffff #20ffffff none
menu color timeout_msg 37;40 #80ffffff #00000000 none
menu color timeout 1;37;40 #c0ffffff #00000000 none
menu color help 36;40 #c000ffff #00000000 none # Modified
>(black), cyan
# menu color help 37;40 #c0ffffff #00000000 none #
Original >(black), white
#menu color help 30;47 #80ffffff #20ffffff none #Modified
>(brown), white
menu color msg07 37;40 #90ffffff #00000000 none
#
# Size of stuff
#
MENU WIDTH 80
MENU MARGIN 10
MENU PASSWORDMARGIN 3
MENU ROWS 15
MENU TABMSGROW 18
MENU CMDLINEROW 18
MENU ENDROW 24
MENU PASSWORDROW 11
MENU TIMEOUTROW 20
MENU HELPMSGROW 22
MENU HELPMSGENDROW -1
MENU HIDDENROW -2
MENU HSHIFT 0
MENU VSHIFT 0
#
# main entries
#
label ^1. Boot WinXP/Win98
MENU DEFAULT
com32 chain.c32
append hd1,1 swap
TEXT HELP
Boots WinXP
You can NOT Boot Win98 in "USB-HDD" mode
ENDTEXT
# verified boots WinXP/Win98/
LABEL ^2.grub4dos
kernel /DiskImages/memdisk
append initrd=/DiskImages/grub4dos.img
TEXT HELP
Universal Boot Loader
ENDTEXT
# verified boots grub4dos in GUI
LABEL ^3.Hardware Detection Tool
LINUX memdisk
INITRD /DiskImages/hdt-050.img
TEXT HELP
Boots Hardware Detection Tool 0.5.0
ENDTEXT
#
label PROGRAMS (Exe/Com type)
#
LABEL ^1. GHOST
kernel /DiskImages/memdisk
append initrd=/DiskImages/WnimGho.img
TEXT HELP
Tool to get Windows partition images
ENDTEXT
LABEL ^2. INSERT\partimage
kernel /DiskImages/memdisk
append initrd=/DiskImages/BtInsUSB.img
TEXT HELP
Tool to get LinuxPartition_UsbDrv Img
ENDTEXT
LABEL ^3.Volkov Commander
kernel /DiskImages/memdisk
append initrd=/DiskImages/WnimVc.img
TEXT HELP
A perfect shell - the Command interpreter
ENDTEXT
LABEL ^4. Duse49
kernel /DiskImages/memdisk
append initrd=/DiskImages/duse49.img
TEXT HELP
Enables Ghost 11.5 to Save/Restore ".GHO" images to/from PenDrives !!
Scaning USB Devices takes @1Min
ENDTEXT
LABEL ^5. Boot USB Ghost
LINUX memdisk
INITRD /DiskImages/usbghost.img
TEXT HELP
Enables Ghost 8.00 to Save/Restore ".GHO" images to/from PenDrives !!
Scaning USB Devices takes @1Min
ENDTEXT
#
label Boot .iso images:
#
LABEL ^1. Plpbt
KERNEL /ISOimages/memdisk
INITRD /ISOimages/Plpbt.iso
APPEND iso
# [if not use iso raw] #
LABEL ^2. PNG-3.01
KERNEL /ISOimages/memdisk
INITRD /ISOimages/PING-3.01.iso
APPEND iso
# [if not use iso raw] #
TEXT HELP
31.2MB be patient, takes 1min10sec to load.
ENDTEXT
# [if not use iso raw] #
#
# memdisk operates on/with ".img/.ima/.iso" files
#
LABEL ** ^TEST IMG/ISO File.
kernel /test/memdisk
initrd test/filename.iso
append iso
# [if not use iso raw]
TEXT HELP
[Tab] >Use (i) iso initrd=test/filename.iso OR (ii)
initrd=test/filename.extn
ENDTEXT
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Your guidance please,
Thanks in advance.
Prof S W Damle
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