Ultimate Boot CD

I did get this to work, but had to copy all the files from the iso to a folder on usb stick, much like the HP usb key util does. LABEL HPSS830_32 MENU LABEL HP SmartStart 8.30 x86 KERNEL vesamenu.c32 APPEND HPSS830_32/usbmenu.cfg mainmenu.cfg THIS is the USBmenu.cfg theat the boot key util creates C...

title HP Firmware 8.60
map /FW860.ISO (hd32)
map --hook
root (hd32)
chainloader (hd32)
boot

this gets it to load, but it hangs.

anybody any ideas? or how to get it to load in syslinux menu? there it never loads just fills the screen with dots, like it cant allocate memory to it.

Has anyone been able to get the HP utilities smart start or firmware upgrade disks to work with ver 50rc1? I got the firmware disk to load / boot in grub for dos menu, but it locks up before it completely loads the program.

I know that is there. However that is a cnd line interface and you you have to manually enter the drive letters. eg ubcd2usb d: e: and you have to navigate in cmd window to the tools folder. What I'm suggesting is a way via script or .exe from web page that will automatically do it for you. or a MEN...

I recently used some software that loaded a HTML page when you booted the disk. On that HTML page was a link to run a .exe that transfered the util to usb thumb drive. I'm not a programer, but I know it's complicated because of the variables of knowing the source drive letter and destination letters...

Never mind, i think i figured it out.

thanks, that got the menu to load. Any idea why it creates it in blue box, instead of full screen like the other menus?

I'm using ver. 50b4 - trying to add a submenu to the custom/ to add a choice of bios updates. (this did work on ver 4.) However i must be doing something wrong, the custom menu loads, but cannot select the choice. ie -you select it, hit enter and it doesnt go anywhere. Can you guys see what i have m...

I previously had a customized version of UBCD v 3.1. Working well. recently the need came to try to get UBCD to work from a USB key (thumbdrive). I happened to notice the new util to do that in the newest version. I have it downloaded and is working. heres the thing. In the old version I had several...