Isolinux For Booting? Options

[Former_Xanatos_post]

Hello,

I like to use isolinux for booting.
But it didn't work, i get direct after BIOS:
CDBOOT: Memory overflow error

This is my isolinux.inf

CODE

[Version]
Signature= "$Windows NT$"

[PEBuilder]
Name="Add Isolinux"
Enable=1
Help=""

[WinntDirectories]
a="ISOLINUX",2

[SourceDisksFiles]
isolinux.bin=1,bootfix.bin
isolinux.cfg=1
memdisk=1

I'm using files from multi_memdisk_addon.zip

Greetings
Xanatos

[Former_Doug_post]

Hi Xanatos,

You could try to update isolinux.bin and memdisk ( http://syslinux.zytor.com/ ), but I think that won't solve your problem. Isolinux requires the ISO image to be built in a special way. Compare: PEBuilder uses this command line ...

CODE

mkisofs.exe -iso-level 4 -volid "BartPE" -A PEBUILDER/MKISOFS -sysid "Win32" -b bootsect.bin -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -hide bootsect.bin -hide boot.catalog -o t:\pebuilder.iso t:\pebldr\

... whereas an ISO image, that is supposed to boot with isolinux, has to be created like this:

CODE

mkisofs.exe -iso-level 4 -volid "BOOTCD_ISOLINUX" -A MKISOFS -sysid "DOS/Win32" -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -hide boot.catalog -o t:\image.iso t:\data\multiboot-cd\

So the difference is the "-boot-info-table" option. You could try to add this option to pebuilder.inf (search for [BuildISO]). If it doesn't work (which will happen, if Windows' bootloader (this 2048 large bin file) is not able to handle isolinux.bin), you have to build the ISO image completely based on isolinux. For this, you should try the command line for isolinux mentioned above. Copy the content of your "pebldr" folder (but not the folder itself) to "t:\data\multiboot-cd\". Isolinux.bin has to be located in "t:\data\multiboot-cd\isolinux\isolinux.bin".

I haven't tested it, but I think it should work. Alternatively, you should try the Bootable CD Wizard ( http://bootcd.narod.ru ).

Regards,
Doug

BTW: Is Xanatos (The CD-Forum) = Xanatos (CCB) true?

[paraglider]

The other alternative is CD Shell at http://www.cdshell.org/ . I use it. It comes with an excellent menu system by DrXP.

[Former_Xanatos_post]

Thx. I will try.

PS: Email notification don't work.

[bembel]

Downloaded all the Isolinux and CDShell stuff, but those guys really don't seem to speak my language.

Finally, Easyboot did the job: http://www.911cd.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=4340