[syslinux] Windows Recovery console FAILS to boot with Syslinux-4.02

Andrew Stuart andrew at shopcusa.com
Thu Aug 19 11:09:05 PDT 2010


On 8/19/2010 10:48 AM, Prof S W Damle wrote:
> Hello Sir,
>
> Copid cmdcons and cmldr to O:(my usb drive) as follows
>
> (1)
>   Microsoft(R) Windows 98
>     (C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1981-1999.
>
> C:\WINDOWS>format o: /s
>
> C:\WINDOWS>format o: /s
>
> WARNING, ALL DATA ON DISK
> DRIVE O: WILL BE LOST!
> Proceed with Format (Y/N)?y
>
>
> Checking existing disk format.
> Formatting 967.98M
> Format complete.
> System transferred
>
> Volume label (11 characters, ENTER for none)?
>
> 1,014,726,656 bytes total disk space
>        425,984 bytes used by system
> 1,014,300,672 bytes available on disk
>
>         16,384 bytes in each allocation unit.
>         61,908 allocation units available on disk.
>
> Volume Serial Number is 404E-16F4
>
>
> C:\WINDOWS>
>
> C:\WINDOWS>  mkdir o:\syslinux
>
> C:\WINDOWS>  cd c:\unzipped\syslinux-4.02\dos
>
> C:\Unzipped\syslinux-4.02\DOS>  syslinux -d syslinux o:
>
> C:\Unzipped\syslinux-4.02\DOS>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> (2)
> Microsoft(R) Windows 98
> (C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1981-1999.
>
> C:\WINDOWS>cd c:\
>
> C:\>xcopy /e /h cmdcons o:\cmdcons\
> ...
>
>
> TFFSPORT.SY_
> TOSIDE.SY_
> TXTSETUP.SIF
> ULTRA.SY_
> USBCCGP.SY_
> USBD.SY_
> USBHUB.SY_
> USBOHCI.SY_
> USBPORT.SY_
> USBSTOR.SY_
> USBUHCI.SY_
> VGA.SY_
> VGAOEM.FO_
> VIAIDE.SY_
> VIDEOPRT.SY_
> WINNT.SIF
> WMILIB.SY_
> SYSTEM32\NTDLL.DLL
> SYSTEM32\SMSS.EXE
> 179 File(s) copied
>
> C:\>copy cmldr o:\
>
> 1 file(s) copied
>
> C:\>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> (3)
> However sorry to say Windows Recovery console does NOT boot with the
> following entries in syslinux.cfg
>
> LABEL cmdcons  =>Windows Recovery Console
> MENU LABEL ^2.cmdcons  =>Windows Recovery Console
> COM32 chain.c32  fs cmldr=cmldr
>    APPEND hd0 1 cmldr=cmldr
>
> What next?
>
> Thanks in advance
> with regards,
>
> Prof S W Damle

You don't specifically mention that you copied chain.c32 to your 
syslinux install, and from my understanding (which may well be wrong) it 
isn't copied during the installation of the syslinux mbr.

You need to report more then 'it doesn't boot'. Thank you for specifying 
the procedure you used to get it installed, that is very helpful, Now we 
need to know what doesn't work?

What's the last output you see? does it look like its attempting to boot 
cmdcons? Does it show an error message? if so, what does it say?
does it just hang? does it reboot? Does syslinux even boot?

-Andrew




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