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  1. It doesn't appear in grub4dos, but it appears once you load the ISO into memory, and text setup begins. And I know the drive shown is not the USB drive, as the drive shown at text setup is much bigger than my USB drive. I'll see if I can contact the author and see if there is a problem with this type of laptop. Is the ISO loaded after the first reboot? Before the Windows XP loading screen appears? I waited 11 minutes while the USB drive light flashed, but no Windows XP loading screen... Done. Saw no difference. Where would I be able to see an effect of what I uncommented?
  2. I use 5.0.10, and it works. Version 5.0.11 doesn't load at all. The USB drive light just flashes, and the screen says Starting PloP Boot Manager, and Linux z-image and such, but nothing else. 0.4.4, dated 03-31-2009. Normal, without PloP Possible disks are: fd0 hd0 hd1 rd hd0 - USB drive hd1 - internal hard drive With PloP Possible disks are: fd0 hd0 rd hd0 - USB drive hd1 - does not appear Yes. It appears to be generated by nLite. No. Yes. Depends: Turns out, I have an oddball laptop here. Out of 19 laptops, 18 of them are HP Compaq nx6325, while the other one is a HP Compaq 6715. With the USB drive removed, the 6715 boots into GUI setup (after 45 seconds), but displays the error below: "The file 'asms' on Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 CD is needed. Type the path where the file is located, and then click OK." The path that is already in the box is: "GLOBALROOT\DEVICE\CDROM1\I386". It does the same thing if you choose the internal hard drive as the boot device, with the USB drive plugged in. However, if you leave the USB drive in during the reboot, it flashes constantly, and shows only a blank screen. Now, on the other 18 laptops (HP Compaq nx6325), I get nothing. No hard drive activity indicator light, no USB light flashing, just a blank screen, even after 5-7 minutes. Thanks for all the help.
  3. No. I am using this one: title XP setup from iso find --set-root /Inst/XP_RAM.iso map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) map --mem /Inst/XP_INST.ima (fd1) map --mem (md)0x6000+800 (fd0) map --mem /Inst/XP_RAM.iso (0xff) map --hook dd if=(fd1) of=(fd0) count=1 chainloader (0xff) The text setup loads too slow without Plop, but when I use Plop, i have to comment out the map entries (below) for it to enter text setup. Otherwise, it doesnt, it tells me the selected disk does not exist. I comment out these lines (because thats what the error 21 appears to refer to): #map (hd0) (hd1) #map (hd1) (hd0) And the text setup went through without a hitch. Here is where things just changed: Upon reboot, the laptop boots into the hard drive (the hard drive is before the USB, when I access the USB drive, I just press F9, and select to boot from USB), and I leave the USB plugged in, the USB light flashes, but after 15 minutes, nothing happens, it just sits at a blank screen. If I pull the USB out after the text setup completes,and before the computer reboots, and wait long enough, the computer boots into GUI setup. But, it says it cant find a file, has an option to type in where it is, but it wont continue. So then I tried the menu.lst option that you gave me. Same thing as if I would have left the USB drive in. I suppose the lines I commented out had some kind of affect on the install, but if I dont comment them out, it doesnt boot into text mode quickly. Sorry if I'm being dense or difficult.
  4. When I use the menu.lst that you gave me, using the RAMDISK method with the ISO that I made (renamed to XP_RAM.iso), I get the following results: Tried booting into text setup without plop - too slow Tried booting into text setup with plop - Error 21: Selected disk does not exist EDIT: I did notice that my ISO and IMA arent in the "inst" folder like in the example. Trying that now. EDIT 2: Same error. What can I do?
  5. Ah. I misunderstood you then. It booted into grub4dos, but when I selected to boot to continue the setup, I got nothing more than a blank screen. Thats where the blank screen came from.
  6. Would it not be easier just to rename the iso to the internal default, and change the menu.lst to reflect the default as well? And if I already completed the text portion of the setup, would I need to re-install to reflect the name changes? Nope. Nothing.
  7. My xp installation iso is named xpsp3.iso, and its in the root of the drive. I tried the menu.lst you posted, and did not get anything more than a black screen, and the USB drive light flashed constantly.
  8. Sorry it took me so long to get back, Thanksgiving and holiday stuff... Here is the menu.lst I was using: color black/cyan yellow/cyan timeout 10 default /default title Start PLoP boot manager find --set-root --ignore-cd /plpbt.bin kernel /plpbt.bin title XP setup from iso find --set-root /xpsp3.iso #map (hd0) (hd1) #map (hd1) (hd0) map --mem /XP_INST.ima (fd1) map --mem (md)0x6000+800 (fd0) map --mem /xpsp3.iso (0xff) map --hook dd if=(fd1) of=(fd0) count=1 chainloader (0xff) title Continue XP setup find --set-root /xpsp3.iso map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) map --mem /xpsp3.iso (0xff) map --hook chainloader (hd0)+1
  9. It's a HP nx6325 laptop. I just tried the firadisk method with PloP, because otherwise, it was too slow, and I had much success in the text mode portion of the setup. However, after the first reboot, I loaded PloP, and then I chose to "Continue XP Setup", and the screen showed: map (hd1), (hd0) The selected drive does not exist. Press any key..etc etc... So, I deleted the two map entries, using the grub4dos editor and it gave me a hal.dll error. My guess would be that the loader is checking the USB drive, and not finding hal.dll because I removed those map commands. So, I tried a straight "Continue XP Setup" (without PloP), and it takes forever to load the ISO into memory, and then it shows nothing but a black screen, and the USB drive light flashes constantly. Is it possible to map the drives, boot into PloP, and then choose setup like normal, with the map commands under that entry removed? Is this completely incorrect? Or is there an easier solution?
  10. The plpbt.bin that you attached will not load. When selected from grub4dos, it loads nothing. Screen says at the top: Booting Start PLoP boot manager (hd0,0) [Linux-zImage, setup=0x800, size=0x9f9e] and the USB drive light flashes constantly. The manual install and upgrade option is not checked, as I had seen that on the forums before I created my my nLite installation.
  11. Thanks for the tip on multiple versions, as the 5.0.10 works, but it only goes about 2 steps further. At the bottom, the text mode now shows "Setup is starting Windows", where it waits a long time, before showing BSOD PROCESS1_INITIALIZATION_FAILED, with a STOP of 0x0000006B. I'll see about trying a stock SP3, maybe it has something to do with my nLite version.... Update: Doesn't work with stock SP3 either.
  12. I'll take a look at the PloP and firadisk method. I didnt have a PloP in the grub4dos menu with 0.2.3. How do I add it?
  13. Hm. No, I was using 1.0beta6...I must have missed the big red letters that say *STABLE*...lol...I'll try using 0.2.3, and see if I yield any results. I read somewhere that the text mode setup goes into a "protected mode" right before asking for which partition to install from. Is this true? and is it related to the cause of the BSOD? I've tried USB_MultiBoot. but it always told me that the drive wasn't formatted correctly, even when I let PEtoUSB or the HP tool format the drive for me. Sticky solutions? Can you point me in the right direction? UPDATE: I just tried the 0.2.3 version, and I couldn't even get into the text portion of the setup. Without Plop, the USB drive either loads ridiculously slow, or not at all. The light on the USB drive flashes constantly, but nothing happens, and I let it sit for 10-15 minutes.
  14. I have tried all of the above solutions. I burnt a CD with the nLited ISO image on it, and it works perfectly, but very slow. Still looking for method via USB. Any ideas?
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