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by pica
Tue Aug 12, 2014 3:22 pm
Forum: UBCD V5 Announcements & Discussion
Topic: Suggestions for replacement of Parted Magic
Replies: 109
Views: 948298

Re: Suggestions for replacement of Parted Magic

well Parted Magic just broke for me for one use. Flash. I don't have flash on my browser normally because of security issues, so when I need it I just boot something light like Parted Magic. The script that downloads flash broke today. I dug into it and it has to pull something from http://beefdrape...
by pica
Wed May 15, 2013 9:58 am
Forum: UBCD V5 Bug Reports & Known Issues
Topic: UBCD 5.2.1 & 5.2.2 - Firefox in Parted Magic is a real dog
Replies: 7
Views: 71461

Re: UBCD 5.2.1 & 5.2.2 - Firefox in Parted Magic is a real d

I would suggest trying latest UBCD (v5.2.3) which uses 2013_2_28_i586 or manually updating to the latest version of Parted Magic which was just released: Parted Magic 2013_05_01 Download: http://partedmagic.com/doku.php?id=downloads This may fix your problem. Same issue after upgrading my USB stick...
by pica
Wed May 15, 2013 9:45 am
Forum: Chit Chat
Topic: How to fdisk /mbr?
Replies: 7
Views: 47517

Re: How to fdisk /mbr?

Ah, this page says that FDISK /MBR is a secret or undocumented feature to overwrite and recreate the Master Boot Record * FreeDOS probably implements this * Gparted can totally overwrite and recreate this (this would be my first choice as I'm use to it and it has a nice GUI, but it may be too much f...
by pica
Thu May 09, 2013 4:24 pm
Forum: Chit Chat
Topic: How to fdisk /mbr?
Replies: 7
Views: 47517

Re: How to fdisk /mbr?

What I exactly want to achieve is easy: Delete/Overwrite as much as possible on a hard disk with a bootable CD. The aim of deleting your hard disk most closely matches: 1. I want to do a clean install on this drive. The existing data must not interfere with the new software. Then what I gave you ab...
by pica
Thu May 09, 2013 5:41 am
Forum: Chit Chat
Topic: How to fdisk /mbr?
Replies: 7
Views: 47517

Re: How to fdisk /mbr?

I'm not real familiar with DOS commands, I moved to linux over a decade ago. I think you want to format a disk or something and put FAT32 or NTFS. There are a bunch of ways to do this, but I'll try to talk you through using Parted Magic. 1. Boot UBCD 2. Select Parted Magic. If the first menu option ...
by pica
Mon May 06, 2013 9:15 am
Forum: Chit Chat
Topic: (Testing thread)Super Grub2 Disk 2.00 beta 4
Replies: 7
Views: 76126

Re: (Testing thread)Super Grub2 Disk 2.00 beta 4

adrian15,

I found the mailing list, will subscribe shortly after I configure a new email address.

I also found the github repository at git://git.berlios.de/supergrub but the last version avaiable with anonymous Git access is dated 2009. Could you do an "expermental" release for beta5?
by pica
Sat May 04, 2013 12:24 am
Forum: Chit Chat
Topic: (Testing thread)Super Grub2 Disk 2.00 beta 4
Replies: 7
Views: 76126

Re: (Testing thread)Super Grub2 Disk 2.00 beta 4

adrian15sgd, Since you understand loop booting in grub2 far better than myself, I'll ask you. Would it be possible to create a loopback.cfg file for UBCD ? Adding such a file to UBCD should not interfere with the normal usage. it would also make testing new versions of the UBCD much easier. Example:...
by pica
Sat May 04, 2013 12:12 am
Forum: Chit Chat
Topic: (Testing thread)Super Grub2 Disk 2.00 beta 4
Replies: 7
Views: 76126

Re: (Testing thread)Super Grub2 Disk 2.00 beta 4

On first glance, the issues regarding the jitter I saw in SG2D 2.00 beta 1-3 appear to be gone. The specific types of jitter were different on different machines. On my Dad's PC the were only "speckles". The usibiltiy was much better. I will be giving beta 4 some more testing in the next f...
by pica
Sat May 04, 2013 12:07 am
Forum: Chit Chat
Topic: (Testing thread)Super Grub2 Disk 2.00 beta 4
Replies: 7
Views: 76126

Re: (Testing thread)Super Grub2 Disk 2.00 beta 4

adrian15sgd, I'm comparing your autoiso.cgf to the one I found here . While you left the original copyright notice intact, I think you ought to seriously consider adding your own notes: # Modified on 04may2013 by adrian15sgd for Super Grub2 Disk 2.00 Not only in the header, but next to, or inside th...
by pica
Fri May 03, 2013 10:04 pm
Forum: Chit Chat
Topic: (Testing thread)Super Grub2 Disk 2.00 beta 4
Replies: 7
Views: 76126

(Testing thread)Super Grub2 Disk 2.00 beta 4

available here 1c408984ee310814a2ec7bf5f37b8735 MD5 0574140e79d00787191ca8feafe8078cce2006a7 sha1 4d239b1a4bee16598d6660f42e1e78c45d600840953460ef7d804350000053c0 sha256 I always repost hashes because while it may be possible to crack a webpage and change the hash values, it becomes very difficult t...
by pica
Fri May 03, 2013 9:50 pm
Forum: UBCD V5 Requests & Suggestions
Topic: consider adding or updating Super Grub2 Disk 2.00 beta 1+
Replies: 14
Views: 83926

Re: Super Grub2 Disk 2.00 beta 3 available

Just check links at http://www.supergrubdisk.org . For developing stuff I prefer mailing list but if you don't feel comfortable subscribing there you can also use the forum. And you can also find me at chat sometimes. adrian15 I found the forum over at grubdisk.org and can move there (English, you ...
by pica
Fri May 03, 2013 8:11 am
Forum: UBCD V5 Requests & Suggestions
Topic: consider adding or updating Super Grub2 Disk 2.00 beta 1+
Replies: 14
Views: 83926

possible inclusion of "Super Grub2 Disk 2.00 beta 3" in UBCD

The inital menu looks ok, but this is what happens when I hit the down arrow once. grubprompt.jpg This is after hitting "c" to get me to the grub> prompt, and typing "reboot". A top-half line of the same text appears above where it should have. grubprompt.jpg Since one of the fea...
by pica
Fri May 03, 2013 6:55 am
Forum: UBCD V5 Requests & Suggestions
Topic: consider adding or updating Super Grub2 Disk 2.00 beta 1+
Replies: 14
Views: 83926

Re: Super Grub2 Disk 2.00 beta 3 available

Super Grub2 Disk 2.00 beta 3 is available I think this release does not fix any of the bugs described here :mrgreen: but you might be interested in testing it and reporting feedback now that I'm subscribed to this thread. :D adrian15 OK I got it. md5sum = e81b06491e706666c48c5d17ba5c6a17 Please con...
by pica
Thu May 02, 2013 3:14 am
Forum: UBCD V5 Requests & Suggestions
Topic: consider adding or updating Super Grub2 Disk 2.00 beta 1+
Replies: 14
Views: 83926

Re: consider adding or updating Super Grub2 Disk 2.00 beta 1

...In fact, recent versions of Parted Magic are supposedly loop bootable, so this is a good way (if it works) to try out the bleeding edge of Parted Magic without going through the effort involved with remastering via the pm2ubcd script (which I haven't tried either) Just tried it. Does not work fo...
by pica
Thu May 02, 2013 2:31 am
Forum: UBCD V5 Requests & Suggestions
Topic: consider adding or updating Super Grub2 Disk 2.00 beta 1+
Replies: 14
Views: 83926

Re: consider adding or updating Super Grub2 Disk 2.00 beta 1

Could you give me an idea of the kinds of bug we are talking about in the current version? Yes, but to verify, you'll need to do some work. The included version of Super Grub2 disk has an earlier version of the "loop booting" code (as an aside, the code was written in lua, while the versi...
by pica
Wed May 01, 2013 7:05 pm
Forum: UBCD V5 Requests & Suggestions
Topic: consider adding or updating Super Grub2 Disk 2.00 beta 1+
Replies: 14
Views: 83926

consider adding or updating Super Grub2 Disk 2.00 beta 1+

I've been doing a lot of "loop booting" of Ubuntu isos. This is done by d/l any of a number of OS iso image files and placing them in a directory called /boot-isos or /boot/boot-isos/ and then having the Suoer Grub2 disk detect them via a menu option. These iso images may then be booted wi...
by pica
Tue Apr 30, 2013 3:56 pm
Forum: UBCD V5 Bug Reports & Known Issues
Topic: UBCD 5.2.1 & 5.2.2 - Firefox in Parted Magic is a real dog
Replies: 7
Views: 71461

Re: UBCD 5.2.1 & 5.2.2 - Firefox in Parted Magic is a real d

Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU 550 @ 3.20GHz (Dell DXPC03)
looks like 6 GB RAM
Sorry, I didn't build this one.
by pica
Tue Apr 30, 2013 11:08 am
Forum: UBCD V5 Requests & Suggestions
Topic: Wake-on-LAN
Replies: 3
Views: 44674

Re: Wake-on-LAN

That's not ideal, mostly because of how long PartedMagic takes to start up, but it's an option. Perhaps someone can find a DOS utility for FreeDOS that'd make things quicker... http://gammadyne.com/cmdline.htm Look at the one on the bottom, WOL.exe . Unknown if they work in Freedos. Gammadyne says ...
by pica
Tue Apr 30, 2013 10:17 am
Forum: UBCD V5 Requests & Suggestions
Topic: Wake-on-LAN
Replies: 3
Views: 44674

Re: Wake-on-LAN

Don't get me wrong, I completely understand the usefulness of WOL itself. It's just the idea of performing the activations from a recovery environment that strikes me as unusual. (At work) send WOL to home PC :: using Clonzilla or Rsync, back up lappy486 :: ssh into home box and shut it down when d...
by pica
Tue Apr 30, 2013 10:01 am
Forum: UBCD V5 Bug Reports & Known Issues
Topic: UBCD 5.2.1 & 5.2.2 - Firefox in Parted Magic is a real dog
Replies: 7
Views: 71461

Re: UBCD 5.2.1 & 5.2.2 - Firefox in Parted Magic is a real d

Do you think you can post your system specs to better determine the issue? I will be testing this to see what's going on. Gigabyte MoBo, ga-ep43-ud3l Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E5400 @ 2.70GHz 2 GiB DDR2 ram Booting off a CD, since I hosed my USB stick with UBCD trying to go from 5.2.1 to 5.2.2 Can't...