[syslinux] question

Prof S W Damle swdamle at bsnl.in
Fri Jan 11 04:47:27 PST 2013


>on 08Jan2013 Bernd Blaauw  and H.Peter Anwin wrote,
 
>The following installers are present in 5.00 :
* syslinux.com (DOS, possibly win9x)
 
>Syslinux.com/exe have always been present.
 
Win9x/ME should use the DOS installer.
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I am working fine with  Dos installer from Win98se in Syslinux-4.06.
 
However feel sorry to say that Dos installer from Win98se in
Syslinux-5.00  FAILS.
 
 (i) My Transcend 4GB USB is detected as O:, 
 
(ii)I have WinXP installed on F: and Win98se installed on C:
 
(iii) in order to Upgrade from "Syslinux-4.06" to "Syslinux-5.00"
 
The batch file used is as follows:
 
:: use Installed "4gb406"
 
 cd c:\unzipped\syslinux-5.00\COM32\MENU
copy Menu.c32 O:
copy Vesamenu.c32 O:
 
cd C:\Unzipped\syslinux-5.00\COM32\CMENU\LIBMENU 
copy libmenu.c32 O:
 
cd C:\Unzipped\syslinux-5.00\COM32\CHAIN
copy Chain.c32 O:
 
cd C:\Unzipped\syslinux-5.00\COM32\LIB
copy LIBCOM32.C32 O:
 
cd C:\Unzipped\syslinux-5.00\COM32\LUA\SRC
copy LIBLUA.C32 O:
 
cd C:\Unzipped\syslinux-5.00\COM32\LIBUTIL
copy libutil_com.c32 O:
 
cd C:\Unzipped\syslinux-5.00\MEMDISK
copy memdisk O:
copy memdisk O:\DiskImages
copy memdisk O:\FloppyImages
copy memdisk O:\test
copy memdisk O:\ISOimages
::copy Syslinux.cfg O:
pause
:: DELETE O:\syslinux MANUALLY
 
mkdir o:\syslinux
cd C:\Unzipped\syslinux-5.00\DOS
syslinux -d syslinux o:
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Passes remark >illegal operation and will be terminated.
 
On Restsrt, >boot error.
 
(iv)contents of my "syslinux.cfg are as follows:
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 default vesamenu.c32 
 
MENU TITLE Bootable Menu
 
#MENU COLOR element ansi foreground background shadow
# see chart below
 
#"foreground" and "background" are color codes in #AARRGGBB
#          notation, where AA RR GG BB are hexadecimal digits for alpha
#          (opacity), red, green and blue, respectively.  #00000000
#          represents fully transparent, and #ffffffff represents opaque
#          white.
#
#If any field is set to "*" or omitted (at the end of the line)
#          then that field is left unchanged.
            
#          element      ANSI        foreground background shadow 
#                                   #AARRGGBB #AARRGGBB none, std, all,
or rev
menu color screen               37;40       #ffffffff #00000000 none
#menu color border              30;40       #00000000 #00000000 none  
menu color border                30;40       #50ff8000  #00000000 none
##ffff8000  #20ff8000
menu color title        1;36;40     #c0ff00f0 #00000000 none # Original
>(black),Magenta (SWD) ##blue ori
 
#menu color title         1;36;44    #ff0000ff   #00000000   std
##  (black),    nu blue
# menu color title                 1;36;40     #c000ffff #00000000  none
# Modified >(black), cyan
 
menu color unsel                 37;40       #90ffffff #00000000 none
#letters white
 
#MENU COLOR unsel   37;44       #ff0000ff #00000000 none  # letters nu
blue >NOT useful !!
 
menu color hotkey               1;37;40     #ffffffff #00000000 none
 menu color sel        30;47       #ff00ff00 #00000000 none  # NO bar,
(black), letters green
 
# menu color sel                  30;47       #90ffffff #20ff8000 none
# brown bar(#20ff8000), letters white
# menu color sel                  30;47       #ffff0000  #00000000 none
# NO bar, (black), letters red
 
menu color hotsel                1;7;30;47   # ffffffff #20ff8000 none
menu color scrollbar    30;40       #40000000 #00000000 none
menu color tabmsg              31;40       #90ffff00 #00000000 none
menu color cmdmark      1;36;40     #c000ffff #00000000 none
menu color cmdline            37;40       #c0ffffff #00000000 none
menu color pwdborder      30;47       #80ffffff #20ffffff none
menu color pwdheader      31;47       #80ff8080 #20ffffff none
menu color pwdentry          30;47       #80ffffff #20ffffff none
menu color timeout_msg            37;40       #80ffffff #00000000 none
menu color timeout            1;37;40     #c0ffffff #00000000 none
menu color help       36;40     #c000ffff #00000000 none  # Modified
>(black), cyan
 
# menu color help                37;40       #c0ffffff #00000000 none #
Original >(black), white
#menu color help         30;47       #80ffffff #20ffffff none  #Modified
>(brown), white
menu color msg07               37;40       #90ffffff #00000000 none
 
#
# Size of stuff
#
MENU WIDTH 80
MENU MARGIN 10
MENU PASSWORDMARGIN 3
MENU ROWS 15
MENU TABMSGROW 18
MENU CMDLINEROW 18
MENU ENDROW 24
MENU PASSWORDROW 11
MENU TIMEOUTROW 20
MENU HELPMSGROW 22
MENU HELPMSGENDROW -1
MENU HIDDENROW -2
MENU HSHIFT 0
MENU VSHIFT 0
 
#
# main entries
#
 
 label ^1. Boot WinXP/Win98
 MENU DEFAULT
 com32 chain.c32
 append hd1,1 swap
TEXT HELP
Boots WinXP
You can NOT Boot Win98 in "USB-HDD" mode
ENDTEXT
# verified  boots WinXP/Win98/
 
 
 LABEL ^2.grub4dos
  kernel /DiskImages/memdisk
append initrd=/DiskImages/grub4dos.img
TEXT HELP
Universal Boot Loader
ENDTEXT 
# verified boots grub4dos in GUI
 
LABEL ^3.Hardware Detection Tool
  LINUX memdisk
 INITRD /DiskImages/hdt-050.img
TEXT HELP
Boots Hardware Detection Tool 0.5.0
ENDTEXT 
 
 
# 
label  PROGRAMS (Exe/Com type)
#
 
 LABEL ^1. GHOST 
kernel /DiskImages/memdisk
append initrd=/DiskImages/WnimGho.img  
TEXT HELP
Tool to get Windows partition images
ENDTEXT  
 
 LABEL ^2. INSERT\partimage    
 kernel /DiskImages/memdisk
  append initrd=/DiskImages/BtInsUSB.img                
TEXT HELP
Tool to get LinuxPartition_UsbDrv Img                
ENDTEXT  
 
  LABEL ^3.Volkov Commander
 kernel /DiskImages/memdisk
  append initrd=/DiskImages/WnimVc.img
TEXT HELP
A perfect shell - the Command interpreter
ENDTEXT 
 
 LABEL ^4. Duse49  
kernel /DiskImages/memdisk
 append initrd=/DiskImages/duse49.img
TEXT HELP
Enables Ghost 11.5 to Save/Restore ".GHO" images to/from PenDrives !!
Scaning USB Devices takes @1Min
ENDTEXT
 
  LABEL  ^5. Boot USB Ghost
  LINUX memdisk
 INITRD /DiskImages/usbghost.img
TEXT HELP
Enables Ghost 8.00 to Save/Restore ".GHO" images to/from PenDrives !!
Scaning USB Devices takes @1Min
ENDTEXT 
 
#
label Boot .iso images:
#
    LABEL ^1. Plpbt
  KERNEL /ISOimages/memdisk
  INITRD /ISOimages/Plpbt.iso
  APPEND iso      
 # [if not use iso raw] #
 
 
  LABEL ^2. PNG-3.01
  KERNEL /ISOimages/memdisk
  INITRD  /ISOimages/PING-3.01.iso
  APPEND iso      
 #  [if not use iso raw]  #
  TEXT HELP
 31.2MB be patient, takes 1min10sec to load.
  ENDTEXT
 
 
 #  [if not use iso raw]  #
# 
# memdisk operates on/with ".img/.ima/.iso" files
#
 
 LABEL ** ^TEST IMG/ISO File.
  kernel /test/memdisk 
 initrd  test/filename.iso                            
 append  iso    
 #  [if not use iso raw] 
TEXT HELP
[Tab] >Use (i) iso  initrd=test/filename.iso OR (ii)
initrd=test/filename.extn
ENDTEXT  
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Your guidance please,
 
Thanks in advance.
 
Prof S W Damle
 
 
 
 


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