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If we know where we came from, we can better predict where we're going. We might also learn about why we do some of the things we do or why we're susceptible to some diseases or viruses more than others. If we can study our ancestors, we can better understand ourselves. Why not study a simpler model of ourselves? It could only help us move forward. This is hardly about religion at all and I don't see anybody forcing anything upon anybody. If the theories of evolution offend you, don't click the damn link and don't reply to the damn thread. It's that simple.

Yeah, I think I meant "boot" and not "active" lol

That's what I said. Except I tried that before without removing and reinserting the flash drive while loaded into PLoP and it didn't find a USB device to boot from, which I think is because it saw the flash drive as a HDD. I'll test it and post what happens.

Are you wanting to boot PLoP from USB and then reboot the USB from PLoP with USB 2.0 support? I attempted this once without success and then got rid of it. I think the problem was that PLoP didn't recognize my flash drive since it was already plugged in and booted from, making PLoP think it's a HDD. If you loaded the ISO or floppy image into RAM using "map --mem", disconnect your flash drive, and reconnect it it may very well work. And yes, there is a way to customize it here, although I haven't tried any of it.

I've discovered that you can name your menu whatever you'd like as well as place it in any directory you'd like. It helps reduce clutter and the amount of files on the root of your drive. I also keep my menu and all submenus in "/.multiboot/menus/" which helps keep everything neat and contained. To do this you must edit the "grldr" file's integrated menu which GRUB defaults to when it doesn't find "/menu.lst" You can even eliminate having a seperate menu altogether by putting it all in "grldr" if you'd like. Editing "grldr" Open "grldr" in a text editor (Notepad doesn't recognize the line terminators, making things difficult. Wordpad does though) Scroll to the bottom Find the lines: configfile default 0 timeout 1 title find /menu.lst, /boot/grub/menu.lst, /grub/menu.lst errorcheck off configfile /menu.lst configfile /boot/grub/menu.lst configfile /grub/menu.lst find --set-root --ignore-floppies --ignore-cd /menu.lst && configfile /menu.lst find --set-root --ignore-floppies --ignore-cd /boot/grub/menu.lst && configfile /boot/grub/menu.lst find --set-root --ignore-floppies --ignore-cd /grub/menu.lst && configfile /grub/menu.lst errorcheck on commandline title commandline commandline title reboot reboot title halt halt This is the integrated menu, you can make it instantly load another menu by replacing everything above with something like: configfile /whateverfolder/yourmenu Or, you can replace everything from "default 0" to "halt" with your current menu, keeping the line "configfile" before your custom list because that's what tells GRUB where that what precedes is your list. Keep the NULL terminator as well which might appear as a box in most text editors (hex value: 00). I recommend using Notepad++ for all your text editing needs.

Try GParted and check the "active" option on the partition flags menu.

chainloader (hd1)+1 Assuming that you only have one HDD (hd0), therefor making your flash drive show up as (hd1).

Didn't we already go over this? I'm quite certain you can modify the init script(s) to look for whatever device your SD card is.

You might be able to chainload it from GRUB

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What does the file system have to do with security, dealing with viruses/malware/trojans/etc., unless it's encrypted? I guess you could say that a file system unsupported to said compromised system couldn't be (easily?) infected, but I don't think that's your reasoning behind why you think ext3 is somehow more secure than FAT32.

Unplug the 8P8C (RJ45 is the incorrect, common name. Betcha didn't know that.)

So, I've realized that Memtest86 and Memtest86+ are two different things. I boot memtest86+.bin file that is in Back|Track 4 Pre-final and most Linux distros. To boot this all you need is: kernel /whateverfolder/memtest86+.bin For mapping ISO files you can use something like: map /whateverfolder/youriso.iso (hd32) map --hook chainloader (hd32) And if that doesn't work correctly you may have to use "chainloader (hd32)+1" You can also boot floppy images: map /whateverfolder/yourimage.img (fd1) map --hook chainloader (fd1) Same as with the ISO, you may have to use "chainloader (fd1)+1" You can also map ISOs and images into RAM which means MUCH faster performance. This is useful with small ISOs and images ( I'd say < 50Mb, although as long as you have enough RAM, you can load much larger files) or when the BIOS is booting USB 1.1 which is much slower than USB 2.0. To map an ISO or image into RAM, add "--mem" between the "map" command and the file, like "map --mem /whatever/yourimage.img (fd1)"

Looks like Darwin wasn't quite correct. http://www.ted.com/talks/elaine_morgan_say...uatic_apes.html

You're welcome... I'm glad you like it... And BTW, VMWare player is free, open source, cross-platform, and awesome. I was already attempting to make one with VirtualBox... Not sure if I will now though because you're so grateful of my work

The MBR installed on the SD card does boot the same drive... The init scripts probably just needed a little tweaking. How can you expect everything to work perfectly ever single time? If that were the case, there'd be almost no drive for innovation and improvement, therefor, crippling society and mankind as a whole.

It's the Internet... Chill. And that is how to fix the "problem," if you consider some noob trying to crack a Windows box that's pretty damn well locked down and trying to play World of Warcraft on it, which most likely wouldn't even be able to play any modern game in the first place, a problem.

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Yeah, sounds like Ubuntu can't find the file system. You're wanting to use the LiveCD from your SD card, right? You might want to check out this subform. Also, there's no need to do anything to your HDD if you're wanting to use Grub2, just install it to your SD card's MBR.

Found this accidentally while googling and figured you guys might be interested in it. http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/USB-Devi...-Crack-Windows/

Why don't you make a video and upload it to blip.tv or YouTube.com. Show the root of your drive, your menu.lst, and then try to boot it in my USB-TestVM so we can verify the information your giving us and see actually see everything. You've got to help us help you, so far you haven't been so great at this but we're trying to stick with you on this one... If you don't have any screen recording software you can use CamStudio which is free and open source.

Copy Contig.exe to C:\WINDOWS\system32\ Go to Start and then Run... Type in "cmd" In the black box, type "X:" where 'X' is your flash drives drive letter in windows explorer Type "contig -s" and wait for it to complete. It may take a while depending on how many files, how big they are, how fragmented they are, your USB's transfer rate, and the performance of your computer in general. Don't unplug your drive while it's still running.

I've successfully gotten BartPE to boot!! :D Now I'll work on installing Windows from BartPE. When everything's done (if I'm successful) I'll post a guide.

Reinstall Grub4DOS.