Using F6 disk images with grub4dos, Another angle for scsi/raid drivers Options

[d4vr0s]

I haven't extensively tested this, but it's worked on the few systems I've needed it on.
I got weary of wrestling with scsi/raid drivers on my disk.
The plus to having these drivers already on the disk is you can boot it (in theory) and always see the drives.
The negatives are:
If you have a newer driver on a floppy then the disk might refuse to use it saying it already has one.
It takes longer to boot.
You can run into 'out of memory' issues sometimes.
My new method is creating disk images of the f6 disks and using grub to mount them before starting setupldr.bin.
This way you can decide whether or not to use a driver, and you still can use a normal f6 disk.
I've heavily editted the txtsetup.oem files here, combining several controllers from one manufacturer into one image.
One drawback is that you can't access the real floppy drive (if there is one) or the image from your Live CD Windows.
Basically here's what you need to do:
1) Create a grub menu for the images
2) You need to have a way to start grldr, you can use bcdw or use grldr as your boot sector.
I actually use a separate menu for this and start it by doing

CODE

title F6
configfile /BOOT/GRUB/F6.LST

3) While your live cd is booting hit f6 and you should find your mounted floppy driver available.
The entries need to be formatted as such:

CODE

title Intel
find --set-root /WIN51IP
map --mem /BOOT/F6/INTEL.GZ (fd0)
map --hook
chainloader --force /BCDW/LOADER.BIN

The last line can be changed to whatever you need, I simply restart bcdw and can use the mounted floppy image with both pebuilder and recovery console boots.
I figured my 2900th post ought to be something interesting.
Reason for edit: removing the <br> tags that found their way into the code
Edit 11-10-2007
Just noticed the map command on the same line as the find command
The forum and I are having a private battle keeping the code blocks from doing wierd stuff like indenting on every crlf

This post has been edited by d4vr0s: Nov 10 2007, 08:25 AM