[syslinux] Re: Memdisk & tomsrtbt

[Christopher Buckley]

Hmmm, well that's interesting because for some reason
I've got it working. I know that sounds like a newbie
response, but the only thing I changed on the new CD I
burned was the write speed. Everything else was the
same.

I'm not sure, but I believe isolinux by peter is lilo
based. Certainly the config file statements are the
same, and so is the functionality.

I am using the 2.88 image for the CD. The point of
using isolinux is to make a multi-boot cd for (older)
machines which may not support the eltorito standard).
Adding your image to it makes it that much more
diverse. In effect, I get all of my rescue systems
onto one CD.

Thankx for getting back to me. If I ever figure out
why it's working now, I'll let you know.

Christopher.





--- Tom Oehser <tom at toms.net> wrote:
> 
> Tomsrtbt is a floppy distribution.
> 
> The CD boot image is a 2.88MB floppy image.
> 
> It is unsupported by me to boot in other than
> from its own LILO, by anything but an ElTorito
> BIOS, directly.
> 
> -Tom
> 
> On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Christopher Buckley wrote:
> 
> > Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 10:03:46 -0800 (PST)
> > From: Christopher Buckley
> <mallardproductions at yahoo.com>
> > To: tom at toms.net, syslinux at zytor.com
> > Subject: Memdisk & tomsrtbt
> >
> > tom & peter
> >
> > Hi Guys, I have a little problem I'm hoping you
> can
> > help me with.
> >
> > When I try to boot toms image, memdisk states a
> > "fractional end sector" while loading the image.
> It
> > continues with the process until I get a
> "Booting..."
> > prompt and then freezes.
> >
> >
> > Here's the whole story:
> >
> > A while back I acquired version tomsrtbt 2.0.103,
> to
> > make a multi-image boot cd as described at:
> >
> > http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/#multimemdisk
> >
> > I was able to create the CD and it works for my
> > dos-6.22, win95, win98 images, but not toms.
> >
> > I have done as instructed:
> >
> > 1) download tomsrtbt 2.88 bz
> >
> > 2) unzip it and place it in \isolinux folder
> >
> > 3) create isolinux.cfg as:
> >
> >
> > # ISOLINUX.CFG
> > display boot_msg.txt
> >
> > # Keep your options above option labels
> > default 1
> > prompt 1
> > timeout 200
> >
> > # List your boot choice instructions here
> > label 1
> >     kernel memdisk
> >     append initrd=tomsrtbt.img
> > label 2
> >     kernel memdisk
> >     append initrd=win_98.img
> > label 3
> >     kernel memdisk
> >     append initrd=win_95.img
> > label 4
> >     kernel memdisk
> >     append initrd=dos_6_22.img
> > label a
> > 	localboot 0x00
> > label h
> > 	localboot 0x80
> > label q
> > 	localboot -1
> >
> > 4) Create the file system using mkisofs -b
> > isolinux/isolinux.bin (etc as spec by peter)
> >
> > 5) burn the cd as data
> >
> >
> > Got any suggestions/ideas? Is this my problem, or
> some
> > thing between you two?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Christopher
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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