• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

is this possible?

spanky

spanky

Lifer
i want to make a bootable cd. but the catch is, instead of making a solely win98 bootable cd, or a linux boot cd, is there a way i can make a boot menu (or of like lilo) to choose whether i want to boot to dos or linux? it would be sweet if i could. anyone got any ideas? any feedback is welcome. thanx! 🙂
 
make a floppy disk that has the boot loader and cd drivers for each os
use that as the boot image and put all other files on the rest of the cd
 


<< make a floppy disk that has the boot loader and cd drivers for each os
use that as the boot image and put all other files on the rest of the cd >>




flood5: wow, thats a great plan! thanx 🙂 time for some google searchin'....
 
That would definately be interesting... a single boot disk that can rescue multiple systems. Oh, and just a note: when you boot from a cd, as far as I know, the virtual "A:" can be no bigger than a big floppy, or 2 meg. That might make this interesting to try!!
 
The max BOOT_IMAGE size is 1.44meg since all the burning programs available right now only allow that.

I did scrap about 20 CD when we tried to burn a CD with a kickstart install script in Redhat, so no floppy would be required to install a clean and secure IDS... it finally worked!

Maybe you can ckeck the structure from a NortonGhost/DriveImage/PartitionMagic boot disk since its able to read a lot of filesystem. It might help 🙂
 
nypnotic - i'm pretty sure you can use up to 2 meg, but if you know for a fact, thats good to hear (or bad, since its less space 🙁)
 


<< nypnotic - i'm pretty sure you can use up to 2 meg, but if you know for a fact, thats good to hear (or bad, since its less space 🙁) >>



ive tried many times but failed to make a boot image bigger than the size of a floppy disk :-[
good thing is that all yuou ned on there is the boot loader and a cd driver... load that up and you can read the rest of the stuff on teh cd
 
Correction, you can actually use bigger boot images than 1.44 BUT its must be exactly the bood byte count for the emulation. I was never able to complete an bootable CD with "no emulation" or "hard disk emulation"... only with floppy, and i dont know why ?!

just validated that with the latest Nero 5.5.4.0 and it give you the choice of
- no emulation
- flopppy 1.20
- floppy 1.44
- floppy 2.88
- hard disk
 
ah, the floppy 2.88 is what i was referring to. The issue is gettinga 2.88 floppy image. never knew you could make a cd without emulation!
 
All you have to do is make a virtual drive and then use it to access the rest of the information on the rest of the cd. So, you can kinda get around the size limit.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Back
Top