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Boot straight to the menu.
Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 1:20 pm
by ErrorF002
What do I need to do in order to get UBCD to boot into the menu automatically. Right now I boot to the CD and if i don't hit enter the moment I am prompted... it hangs. The screen looks like this:
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Press [Enter] to boot the Ultimate Boot CD...
boot:
Booting...
There is no other choice other than to reboot the system again. And considering I am using this disk on a server it really slows me down.
TIA
Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 12:52 am
by Constance
Hi there ^^
Looks like there must be some hardware incompatibility with the loader or something ... for you shouldn't need to do anything more than press enter and wait like half a second to get to the menu.
Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 4:39 am
by ErrorF002
Just wondering if there is a way to not have to hit enter and go straight to the menu.
Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 7:31 am
by Constance
Oh, sorry I had not understood that.
Well I suppose the answer may be found somewhere in the syslinux documentation (if that's syslinux which is used to make the CD bootable, which I'm not 100% sure of ).
Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 5:06 pm
by ErrorF002
Yeah I figured that.
I'm trying all sorts of stuff with this disk. So far I am booting it on a Dell PE2650, and if I don't hit enter, it freezes up. I get the identical behaviour when I boot it in a Microsoft Virtual PC.
I guess this begs the question.... What "is" supposed to happen when you boot to UBCD and you don't hit enter?
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 6:32 am
by Victor Chew
I guess this begs the question.... What "is" supposed to happen when you boot to UBCD and you don't hit enter?
It will try to boot from the first HDD. This behaviour is codified in isolinux\isolinux.cfg:
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ONTIMEOUT boot
LABEL boot
KERNEL chain.c32
APPEND hd0
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 6:34 am
by Victor Chew
Just wondering if there is a way to not have to hit enter and go straight to the menu.
Yes, change isolinux\isolinux.cfg from:
to:
and build a customized UBCD.