EasyBoot

Frequently Asked Questions

Q. How to make bootable compact disc? 

Please refer to user guide of making Windows 98/NT/2000/XP bootable CDs.

Q. About run sequence of boot images

1) puts loader.bin and cdmenu.ezb and other image documents under the 'ezboot' directory.
2) the start order as follows: CD-ROM acts according to El Torito standard, loads loader.bin, loader.bin searches cdmenu.ezb under the 'ezboot' directory of CD, and processes the keyboard and display by cdmenu.ezb.
3) when user choice menu item, directly processes the display by cdmenu.ezb.
4) according to the carriage return or SpaceBar, cdmenu.ezb can executive the command corresponds to menu bar.

Q. About 'ezboot' directory

The whole piece compact disc only needs one 'ezboot' directory, puts all boot file image including the sub-menu xxx.ezb document under this directory.
Note: EasyBoot automatically search boot image file under 'ezboot' directory, so you must put all boot image under this directory.

Q. Run command with menu

The command is divided to 2 types:

a) PC start class

boot 80 -- starts from the hard disk
reboot   -- restarts PC

b) boot image class

run dos98.img    -- starts DOS emulation mode
run w2ksect.bin -- starts the Windows NT/2000/XP installments procedures

Note: The boot image file and the bin file may be downloaded from several website. EasyBoot included Windows 98SE/NT/2000/XP boot image file.

Q. Run multiple command within one menu

If the menu run multiple commands, separate each command with one ';'.

Q. Main menu and sub-menu

The main menu and sub-menu file itself does not have the difference, but load order is different, all of them are stored on 'ezboot' directory on the compact disc file directory:
a) main menu is loaded by loader.bin at initial start
b) the sub-menu is loaded by main menu or other sub-menu with run command
c) menu chains by 'run xxx.ezb' command

disk1 directory contents all files to create a compact disc, includes CD menu file under the 'ezboot' directory. If you want to make many compact discs, create different directory , such as disk2, disk3.

Q. About local language menu

EasyBoot can make startup menu in more than 40 languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Irish, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Slovak, Slovenian, Romanian, Croatian, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Greek, Turkish, Hebrew, Arabic, Latvian, Estonian and Lithuanian.