custom images not booting properly

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Geomax · #1 Post by **Geomax** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 8:44 am

When i run a custom image It loads memdisk then loads the img.
But then instead of using the memory it trys to access the physcial A: to load it's normal files from. This has been the case with the win98boot image partmagic and norton ghost 7.5.

I am testing the boot iso using virtual cd since I was having trouble with the paths working in the custom file

LABEL NTFS FILE READER
MENU LABEL NTFS FILE READER
KERNEL memdisk
APPEND initrd=/custom/ntfs.img
this one for some odd reason does not work.

Anyway they are trying to access the Physcial A:\ to load files from instead of the image.

Geomax · #2 Post by **Geomax** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 12:43 pm

I determined that most of the file names where to long so after i shortened them they all work.

I Edited the ISO using ultra Iso since I could not get the ubcd2iso to function correctly I kept getting.

C:\ubcd\TOOLS\UBCD2ISO>ubcd2iso c:\ubcd c:\ubcd4
UBCD2ISO: Creating bootable UBCD ISO image ...
Warning: creating filesystem that does not conform to ISO-9660.
Warning: creating filesystem with (nonstandard) Joliet extensions
but without (standard) Rock Ridge extensions.
It is highly recommended to add Rock Ridge
Using BOOT000.CAT for /BOOT.CAT (boot.catalog)
mkisofs: Uh oh, I cant find the boot image 'isolinux/isolinux.bin' !

(ERROR) 'mkisofs.exe' failed

Press any key to continue . . .

C:\ubcd\TOOLS\UBCD2ISO>

The path appears correct and all the files are there so not sure why the problem.

So I used ultra iso to make the image bunred it. Then say I run win98 boot disk It attempts to run from the physcial A:\ of the computer not the image on the ubcd.
What is the problem?

#3 Post by **Victor Chew** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 3:30 am

The ISO extraction tool you used didn't preserve the case of the files on UBCD, so you ended up with all uppercase letter filenames.

mkisofs.exe, on the other hand, is case-sensitive, so it needs lower-case filenames.

forkart · #4 Post by **forkart** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 10:09 pm

Geomax wrote:I determined that most of the file names where to long so after i shortened them they all work.

I Edited the ISO using ultra Iso since I could not get the ubcd2iso to function correctly I kept getting.

C:\ubcd\TOOLS\UBCD2ISO>ubcd2iso c:\ubcd c:\ubcd4
UBCD2ISO: Creating bootable UBCD ISO image ...
Warning: creating filesystem that does not conform to ISO-9660.
Warning: creating filesystem with (nonstandard) Joliet extensions
but without (standard) Rock Ridge extensions.
It is highly recommended to add Rock Ridge
Using BOOT000.CAT for /BOOT.CAT (boot.catalog)
mkisofs: Uh oh, I cant find the boot image 'isolinux/isolinux.bin' !

(ERROR) 'mkisofs.exe' failed

Press any key to continue . . .

C:\ubcd\TOOLS\UBCD2ISO>

The path appears correct and all the files are there so not sure why the problem.

So I used ultra iso to make the image bunred it. Then say I run win98 boot disk It attempts to run from the physcial A:\ of the computer not the image on the ubcd.
What is the problem?

Try using magiciso to edit this iso file. It used it and it works fine for me.
http://www.magiciso.com/