[syslinux] multi OS bootable CD, ISOLinux, ERD Commander problem

[G. Murali Krishnan]

On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, LAM Chi-fung wrote:

> Hello Murali, seems that we have different objective but work on same
> things. Did you try the Win ME boot floppy ? (forWin ME and other boot
> floppy, can try http://www.bootdisk.com, even has driver for boot from
> SCSI CD-ROM) for the crashrecovery.org, even the ISO image is provided,
> still not able to include it in isolinux.cfg.....

Since our systems use only Win2K/XP, I dont need WinME. But I use Win98
DOS mode, to start the WinXP installation, and I have had no problems with
that.

My Win98 based DOS bootdisk used to hang. The problem was with IFSHLP.SYS.
Try removing the "DEVICE=IFSHLP.SYS" in the config.sys in WinME image, to
see if it works. If it does and if you need network support, then you have
to get another copy of IFSHLP.SYS.

In case of 6 and 7, they are the only linux images you are trying to boot
using memdisk. I presume that the images themselves are using syslinux,
to boot into linux. If that is the case, you can remove the extra syslinux
layer. Just get the kernel and initial ramdisk out of your .img file
and change the config lines to be similar to the other linux kernels.

> since my objective is a multi-OS rescue CD, so I think NTFSDOS Pro, Disk
> Commander and ERD Commander are more suitable, hey hey, any one has idea on
> how to incorporate them in ISOLinux ?

I dont have copies of them to test. However, I use Windows XP recovery
console image to recover windows stuff. It may not be as powerful as the
other utilities. But if things are done right, you would never need to use
them. If the recovery systems become very complicated, they might need
recovering themselves.

- Murali

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