Ultimate Boot CD

Booting from a Smart Boot Manager floppy, I've been able to work around Boot Error failures with UBCD 3.3. This might apply to people experiencing 808xxxxx or other boot errors. I've yet to see any progress on this issue at the CDShell forum. Until / unless this problem is solved, it's quick and pai...

Booting from a Smart Boot Manager floppy, I've been able to work around Boot Error failures with UBCD 3.3. This might apply to people experiencing 808xxxxx (or other) errors, described in several threads on this forum. Until / unless this problem is solved for Ultimate Boot CD, it's quick and painle...

Booting from a Smart Boot Manager (SBM) floppy, I confirmed the ability to boot and run UBCD 3.3. Anyone reporting 808xxxxx (or other) boot errors might also succeed in booting first from a Smart Boot Manager floppy: http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/download.html My boot failure is due to an early BIOS,...

Sorry, bldrdash, please let me clarify: The missing file is named "cdshell.iso", in contrast to "loader.bin", which -is- present. That's consistent with my report that this CD boots OK on other PCs. My point was that on UBCD, the filename of "cdshell.iso" is hard-coded ...

Ian - Your specifc error code is being discussed in other threads on this forum, and it's been referred to the CD Shell forum: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?s=663dfeb3a14d3bea3ccc4ab53bf142b4&showtopic=12249 So far the author of CD Shell (the boot component of UBCD) says that your error...

The string "cdshell.iso" is configured in /boot/loader.bin at offset 7D0, but that file appears to be missing from UBCD 3.3, at least when viewed under Linux and Windows XP. The CD Shell User Manual description for this string is "Name of virtual file system image (ISO)", per: ht...

Thanks again, bldrdash, for your on-target answers. I've posted the issue as a new topic on the CD Shell forum: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=12322 The only related post there, by Victor, was diagnosed as a hardware error (bad CD drive) for both reported issues. CD Shell appears t...

Yes, thanks, bldrdash. I use an old motherboard as a testbed for embedded systems development. Since the boot failure may be "not about RAM" (jeez...), I've posted another topic with full details on the hardware and the error message: http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15...

A UBCD 3.3 CD boots fine on several PCs, but fails on an old motherboard which has a Pentium 133, 32 MB RAM, and an EGA-compatible video card (not VGA). Is it possible that a VGA card is required to boot UBCD 3.3? The code 81400219 appears at the lower right-hand corner of the screen, following a pa...

My question is, (regardless of individual apps,) how much RAM is required to -boot- the CD itself, and to get to the main menu.

Does anyone know how much memory is required to boot UBCD 3.3? I'd like to check whether 32 MB might be inadequate, before digging into the boot error messages. If so, can the configuration be modified to allow booting on PCs with low memory -- setting a smaller ramdisk size, or loading from the CD ...