Forum: EasyBoot
Topic: how to add Insert CD and 2xUbuntu to EasyBoot
started by: bozon42
Posted by bozon42 on Jul. 13 2009,04:27
Hello,

I have been reading lot of interesting and useful info on this forum for which I thank to everyone for the contribution.
I have tried a multiboot with EasyBoot and some things worked, other part not.

1.
I gradually added to EasyBoot the following distros:
a)
Paragon Drive Backup 8.5
b)
Hirens BootCD v9.8
c)
Ghost2003
d)
WinXP_SP2_SATA_drivers_integrated
e)
Ubuntu 9.04

To be frank I had a small problem with including Ubuntu 9.04
into my distro.
When I copied all iso content of Ubuntu 9.04 to \disk1,
\disk1 already contained boot.images\no_emul.00 and autorun.inf file from integrating Hirens BootCD .
I simply overwritten these files. I thought it can cause problems but so far distro is ok.

Q1:
Now how can I add another ubuntu (f.e. 8.04)?
The first mail from billonious is not 100% clear since he writes:

"1) Extract each ISO to its own folder and start the hard job."

But where "own folder" should be ? In \disk1 like \disk1ubuntu8.04?
If so in this case path in bcdw command has to be changed.
For insert boot cd it look likes:

bcdw/inslinux/isolinux.bin /inslinux/vmlinuz initrd=/inslinux/miniroot.gz init=/etc/init nomce noapic dma boot_image=/insert/insert

Q2:
But neither for Insert is mentioned where to copy all content of its own iso?
If I follow this command - it seems that all iso is copied to \disk1.
Somehow for 2-3 ubuntu distros there are similar files and dirs that can owerwrite the previous ones if copied to \disk1.

Can somebody clarify it for me?
Thanks and regards,

bozon42
Posted by bozon42 on Jul. 13 2009,08:09

(bozon42 @ Jul. 13 2009,09:27)
QUOTE
Hello,

I have been reading lot of interesting and useful info on this forum for which I thank to everyone for the contribution.
I have tried a multiboot with EasyBoot and some things worked, other part not.

1.
I gradually added to EasyBoot the following distros:
a)
Paragon Drive Backup 8.5
b)
Hirens BootCD v9.8
c)
Ghost2003
d)
WinXP_SP2_SATA_drivers_integrated
e)
Ubuntu 9.04

To be frank I had a small problem with including Ubuntu 9.04
into my distro.
When I copied all iso content of Ubuntu 9.04 to \disk1,
\disk1 already contained boot.images\no_emul.00 and autorun.inf file from integrating Hirens BootCD .
I simply overwritten these files. I thought it can cause problems but so far distro is ok.

Q1:
Now how can I add another ubuntu (f.e. 8.04)?
The first mail from billonious is not 100% clear since he writes:

"1) Extract each ISO to its own folder and start the hard job."

But where "own folder" should be ? In \disk1 like \disk1ubuntu8.04?
If so in this case path in bcdw command has to be changed.
For insert boot cd it look likes:

bcdw/inslinux/isolinux.bin /inslinux/vmlinuz initrd=/inslinux/miniroot.gz init=/etc/init nomce noapic dma boot_image=/insert/insert

Q2:
But neither for Insert is mentioned where to copy all content of its own iso?
If I follow this command - it seems that all iso is copied to \disk1.
Somehow for 2-3 ubuntu distros there are similar files and dirs that can owerwrite the previous ones if copied to \disk1.

Can somebody clarify it for me?
Thanks and regards,

bozon42

Hello all,

somehow I found out that
bcdw/inslinux/isolinux.bin /inslinux/vmlinuz initrd=/inslinux/miniroot.gz init=/etc/init nomce noapic dma boot_image=/insert/insert

is wrong.
Instead of  miniroot.gz  /miniroot.lz is to be used.

But the problem is that even if Insert linux is loaded INSERT filesystem cannot be found.

When I copy the whole content of insert.iso to \disk1,
i removed Tools dir and renamed isolinux dir to inslinux dir.
No other changes.

For command I have tried:

bcdw/inslinux/isolinux.bin /inslinux/vmlinuz initrd=/inslinux/miniroot.lz init=/etc/init dma boot_image=/insert/insert

since I cannot insert longer command.

Can somebody give me a hint?

Thanks and regards,

bozon42
Posted by bozon42 on Jul. 20 2009,07:11
Hello all,

I have found the solution:

check Joliet if wants to burn.

Regards,

bozon42

PS: I still wonder why everybody except me gets questions answered...