UBCD and Novell ZENworks Imaging CD
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 2:57 am
Hi, firstly good job with UBCD, liking it alot.
Hopefully there will be a solution for my problem.
I've been trying to customise the CD for work, and am trying to add theN ovell ZENworks Imaging CD as a bootable option (ZEN uses isolinux). There was a post on the UBCD4Win website (http://www.ubcd4win.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=710) which had some information regarding integrating Novell Zen CD with UBCD and UBCD4win (which I've left out as I don't really need it) but I've not had any luck.
Basically UBCD boots without any problems, but when I try booting Zen I get various problems, but it seems to be with the new PCs we have, I've been able to get it to boot on older PCs.
I have tried the following types of commands
- booting the actual image for the zen cd
command: then diskemu /images/bootcd.iso
result: screen breiefly flashes but stays at menu and can choose another option (this method boots on older PCs).
- copying contents of zen cd to root of UBCD
command: then isolinux /kernel.zen 5 initrd=/initrd.gz rw reboot=w
result: starts saying loading kernel.zen and then it goes to a blank screen.
- copying contents of zen cd to root of UBCD
command: then bcdw boot /ISOLINUX.BIN
result: takes me to the INSERT boot menu.
If I type "/ISOLINUX.BIN" at the INSERT boot menu it says "invalid or corrupt kernel image"
- extracting boot information from ZEN cd using UltraISO and copying contents of cd to root of UBCD
command: bcdw boot /zenboot.bif
result: takes me to the INSERT boot menu.
If I type "/zenboot.bif" at the INSERT boot menu it says "invalid or corrupt kernel image"
None of them seem to work on the new PCs. By new i mean between 3-12months.
The closest I've managed to come so far is, I followed some instructions to make a 2.88 floppy disk image, and I that way I got it to boot to the ZEN menu, but it could not go any further after that as I was not able to fit INITRD.GZ into the floppy image (6MB file) which is needed after that point.
The structure of the zen CD is as follows:
/ADDFILES/BIN/ contains a few scripts but usually its empty in the default zen cd
/ADDFILES/ETC/ Empty folder
/DRIVERS/ Empty folder
BOOT.MSG 1KB
BOOT~1.CAT 2KB
INITRD.GZ 5,963KB
ISOLINUX.BIN 8KB
ISOLINUX.CFG 1KB
KERNEL.ZEN 763KB
KERNELS.ZEN 1,293KB
SETTINGS.TXT 2KB
TOOLS.TGZ 231KB
Has anyone got any ideas of what I can do, anything that I haven't tried yet?
Thanks in advance for any help and keep up the good work.
Hopefully there will be a solution for my problem.
I've been trying to customise the CD for work, and am trying to add theN ovell ZENworks Imaging CD as a bootable option (ZEN uses isolinux). There was a post on the UBCD4Win website (http://www.ubcd4win.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=710) which had some information regarding integrating Novell Zen CD with UBCD and UBCD4win (which I've left out as I don't really need it) but I've not had any luck.
Basically UBCD boots without any problems, but when I try booting Zen I get various problems, but it seems to be with the new PCs we have, I've been able to get it to boot on older PCs.
I have tried the following types of commands
- booting the actual image for the zen cd
command: then diskemu /images/bootcd.iso
result: screen breiefly flashes but stays at menu and can choose another option (this method boots on older PCs).
- copying contents of zen cd to root of UBCD
command: then isolinux /kernel.zen 5 initrd=/initrd.gz rw reboot=w
result: starts saying loading kernel.zen and then it goes to a blank screen.
- copying contents of zen cd to root of UBCD
command: then bcdw boot /ISOLINUX.BIN
result: takes me to the INSERT boot menu.
If I type "/ISOLINUX.BIN" at the INSERT boot menu it says "invalid or corrupt kernel image"
- extracting boot information from ZEN cd using UltraISO and copying contents of cd to root of UBCD
command: bcdw boot /zenboot.bif
result: takes me to the INSERT boot menu.
If I type "/zenboot.bif" at the INSERT boot menu it says "invalid or corrupt kernel image"
None of them seem to work on the new PCs. By new i mean between 3-12months.
The closest I've managed to come so far is, I followed some instructions to make a 2.88 floppy disk image, and I that way I got it to boot to the ZEN menu, but it could not go any further after that as I was not able to fit INITRD.GZ into the floppy image (6MB file) which is needed after that point.
The structure of the zen CD is as follows:
/ADDFILES/BIN/ contains a few scripts but usually its empty in the default zen cd
/ADDFILES/ETC/ Empty folder
/DRIVERS/ Empty folder
BOOT.MSG 1KB
BOOT~1.CAT 2KB
INITRD.GZ 5,963KB
ISOLINUX.BIN 8KB
ISOLINUX.CFG 1KB
KERNEL.ZEN 763KB
KERNELS.ZEN 1,293KB
SETTINGS.TXT 2KB
TOOLS.TGZ 231KB
Has anyone got any ideas of what I can do, anything that I haven't tried yet?
Thanks in advance for any help and keep up the good work.