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

[LAM Chi-fung]

> 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.

thanks for your advice, my problem is more interesting....the Win ME boot floppy
work perfectly but not in image mode..... even I use dd to build the image file
again and again (on different PC)

> 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.

woo... great.... this may consume 2 weekends for me ^_^

> > 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.

do you have the Recovery Console image or the file list ?? I have difficult to
identify which files belong to Recovery Console.....
great.... recovery system for recovery system........ ^_^

Regds
LAM Chi-fung

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