[[Guide] Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop from ISO]

If I remember correctly, Mint is derived from Ubuntu. Does it work without persistence?

Sorry for late response.

Mint7 works fine mate i got no issues booting the ISO but having Casper folder on root. I managed to Make persistant but that was with ISO extracted out. I cant get it Running persistant when booting from ISO

title Linux Mint 7
find --set-root /Images/LinuxMint-7.iso
map /Images/LinuxMint-7.iso (0xff)
map --hook
root (0xff)
kernel /casper/vmlinuz boot=casper iso-scan/filename=/Images/LinuxMint-7.iso
initrd /casper/initrd.gz
boot

Works on MOST laptops i use, occasionally get Busybox like above. All depends what machine, if i get busyboox i just bang my disk in.

[[Guide] Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop from ISO]

Thats pretty much how you do Mint7, but however i couldnt get it to run persistent :( have the casper-rw file and itll lock booting up

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Mate it all works fine.

If you ctrl+alt+insert the VM, choose option it works. If you get a error, goto next on list without reboot thats where i got the error. All is ok.

Fanstic work on that VM mate, allowed me to get LinuxMint7 working :)

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H@lo_f00

Nice way to test the USB.

But nothing on my pendrive will boot bah Kon-Boot unfortunatly, yet all my utilites work if im to reboot my machine and boot off the USB.

Here is my menu.lst

timeout 60
default 0

title UK Patched Hirens.BootCD.9.9.iso
map /Images/Hirens.BootCD.9.9.iso (hd32)
map --hook
chainloader (hd32)

title Memtest86
kernel /Images/memtest86/ISOLINUX/MEMTEST 

title Blancco V4.9
map /Images/Blancco49.iso (hd32)
map --hook
chainloader (hd32)

title Kon-Boot (floppy)
map (hd0,0)/Images/FD0-konboot-v1.1-2in1.img (fd0)
map --hook
chainloader (fd0)+1
map (hd1) (hd0)
map --hook
rootnoverify (fd0)
map --floppies=1

title Freedos
map /Images/freedos.iso (hd32)
map --hook
chainloader (hd32)

title Damn Small Linux
kernel /dsl/linux24 ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=789 initrd=minirt24.gz nomce noapic BOOT_IMAGE=dsl
initrd /dsl/minirt24.gz

title --------------------
root

title Boot from CD
cdrom --init
map --hook
chainloader (cd0)
boot

title Boot from Hard Drive
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader (hd0,0)+1

Get Error 5 on everything

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WOW ... odd bios ... you're right, nevermind me. : )

Well, some BIOS have the FDD USB emulation, try lookin for that in the BIOS.

you SHOULD be able to switch it ti USB HDD Instead.

/Acidgen

It does this on every laptop i try. But im sure it works on my sisters laptop, an my friend madeone at work exact same way as mine and his works fine.

I think the USB pendrive is the problem.

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if i understand what you're trying to do, then you need to have "root (hd0,0)" not "root (fd0,0)".

are you trying to boot from usb or a floppy? if a floppy then ignore me. otherwise if /win98/io.sys is on your usb then the hd instead of fd applies. also you might consider using winimg or dd to make a floppy image to boot off your usb drive if you're booting from floppy.

When i boot off USB

It does:

(hdo,0) GLDR Not Found

(hd1,0) ""

(hd2,0) ""

(hd3,0) ""

(fd0,0) GLDR

Or something like that, so its asif it see's my usb as fd0? Or am i wrong somewhere

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Hi

Dont suppose anyone can help. I use USB pen all day and im in the process of making a usb that holds everything i need on 1 drive for my job.

Im a laptop engineer and most days need to Write DMI to HP/Compaq laptops and only way to do this is from DOS. So i have a USB that was formatted with HP Tool and then created it as a startup disk with the win98 files.

Now that works great problem im having is, i cant seem to get to boot do a Dos prompt from GRUB.

Ive tried alsorts, Ive even took a ISO of my USB and tried booting that but got a error, unsure what it was atm.

So, i took all the boot files put them in a folder /win98/

Tried this:

title find and load IO.SYS of Windows 9x/Me/DOS
root (fd0,0)
find --set-root /win98/io.sys
chainloader /win98/io.sys

An then get this error:

Booting find and load IO.SYS

Filesystem type is fat, partition type 0x0C
(fd0)
Will boot MS-Dos 7.x from drive=0x0, partition=0xff(hidden sectors=0x0)
Starting windows 98...

Type the name of the command Interpreter (e.g., C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM)
A>

Can anyone give me any ideas regarding doing this. I just need a command prompt/dos prompt that i can run batch files from.

Also when i tried booting the ISO i made i used:

title Dos
map (fd0,0)/images/dos.iso (hd32)
map --hook
chainloader (hd32)

title Dos
map /images/dos.iso (0xff)
map --hook
chainloader (0xff)

Both of which failed.

Any ideas people?

Thanks