Ultimate Boot CD

Hello,

I have tried to run UBCD but when I get the initial message asking me to press Enter to confirm booting with UBCD I am not able to do this because the keyboard (and also the mouse) will not respond.

The PC is a Sony Laptop and none of the keys respond at any time during booting. Without the confirmation it goes on to attempt a normal boot from the hard drive and then crashes.

Does anyone know a way to get it to boot from the PC without using the keyboard or any other bootable CD I can download off the net that will initially start without the keyboard?

Thanks,
Mick.

If you have also a normal keyboard from another pc, you can try to hang it on your laptop.

Can you get into the bios with your keyboard?
See if there is an option about your keyboard.

This is what I found for some USB keyboards, which solves the problem.
Maybe something similar exists for your case.

You can try to update isolinux on the cd.
Download syslinux from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/.

Extract the UBCD ISO image to the harddisk with 7zip or winrar (assume "c:\ubcd")

To update isolinux for the CD version
- Copy isolinux.bin to "c:\ubcd\isolinux\"

To update syslinux for the bootable USB key
- Copy ldlinux.sys to "c:\ubcd\syslinux\"
- Copy mbr.bin (/mbr/mbr.bin) and ldloader.bss to "c:\ubcd\tools\ubcd2usb\"

You can update the other programs which are available in the syslinux archive also. (Copy chain.c32 menu.c32 and memdisk to c:\ubcd\isolinux\ and c:\ubcd\syslinux\)

Remaster the cd
Go to start ==> Run... ==> type "cmd" (without quotes).
Change the directory to "C:\ubcd\tools\ubcd2iso\"
Type the following in the console window.

UBCD2ISO c:\ubcd c:\ubcd40.iso

(UBCD extracted in dir 'c:\ubcd', ISO image written to 'c:\ubcd40.iso')

Sometimes this seems to solve the problem.