[syslinux] [off topic] gpxelinux bartpe

[Jeff Sadowski]

To Anyone curious about how to get bartpe to boot using memdisk
You do indeed need winvblock.
To get winvblock go to memdisk's homepage it has a link to the forum
entry that has it.
There is a link on the forum to go to the latest post wich has it to
download. You will need to get a login to access the driver by
registering to the forum.
Once you have the driver put the following three files in your bartpe
drivers in the following location

C:\pebuilder3110a\drivers\SCSIAdapter\wvblk\win_xp_2k3_32\WinVBlk.INF
C:\pebuilder3110a\drivers\SCSIAdapter\wvblk\win_xp_2k3_32\wvblk32.sys
C:\pebuilder3110a\drivers\SCSIAdapter\wvblk\win_xp_2k3_32\txtsetup.oem

then I rebuilt the iso and put it in my directory and it booted in
memdisk using "iso raw" options

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Jeff Sadowski <jeff.sadowski at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am using windows xp sp3 source for bartpe
> ramdisk.sys is in the drivers folder
> Im using the memdisk that came with syslinux 4.0 I will upgrade
> shortly but unless there where any changes it will be the same.
>
> the error windows throws is
> [quote]
> A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage
> to your computer.
>
> If this the first time you've seen this stop error screen,
> restart your computer. If this screen appears again, follow
> these steps:
>
> Check for viruses on your computer. Remove any newly installed
> hard drives or hard drive controllers. Check your hard drive
> to make sure it is properly configured and terminated.
> Run CHKDSK /F to check for hard drive corruption, and then
> restart your computer.
>
> Technical information:
>
> *** STOP: 0x0000007B (0xFE532528,0xC0000034,0x00000000,0x00000000)
> [/quote]
>
> the same iso boots flawlessly if inserted as a burned iso but I'd like
> to go completely disk-less (including removing all cds).
>
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Jeff Sadowski <jeff.sadowski at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm trying to boot bartpe from gpxelinux
>> I'm using gpxelinux and memdisk.
>>
>> my pxelinux.cfg/default looks as follows
>>
>> LABEL bartpe
>> kernel memdisk
>> initrd http://<path to iso>
>> append iso raw
>>
>>
>> Both of these I think I have working correctly. So my question I guess
>> is for people that may have done this?
>>
>> Anyways I see the bartpe load screen then the xp load screen and then
>> it blue screens. Reading the memdisk homepage I suspect that windows
>> is tramping over memdisk. I read on the memdisk page that there are
>> two things to deal with this and I can't find one. the other looks
>> like it is already installed so I need to figure out what else might
>> be going wrong.
>>
>> The two methods I see listed on memdisk page
>> http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/MEMDISK
>> are WinVBlock and ramdisk
>>
>> WinVBlock driver I could not find I have been looking on the forum
>> pointed too but I can't find any links
>>
>> ramdisk is supposidly enabled in the bartpe modules so this seems not
>> to be working however i will double check for this tomorrow.
>>
>>
>> I tried the tftp method and that will not work since it would take
>> more than 4 hours to load the iso (only 140MB)
>> udp traffic sucks on my network.
>>
>