need help for grub4dos

[LopoTRI]

hello,

first sorry for my english cause i come from germany.

After 4 days of reading topics in forums i have made my stick so how i dream it (Multiboot with extras). But now i have some little problems to start a program that i init in menu.lst

I trying the second day, but it will not work cause i am not a linux freak......

I put some isos and the lines for menu.lst that works great, but i have a dos program that i need permanently and i downt know how i can start it.

I tried it with making a iso, but after it boots to dos come an error cause the autoexec search a cd in x:.

The Dos-prog isnt large (1MB) but I cant pack it to a floppy image, cause out of space by 1,44MB when i make a bootable dos image.

I have tried with virtual floppy to make a 1,72MB or 2,88MB floppy image, but i cant format it in xp, it hangs and do nothing.

So my questions are.....

Can anybody tell me what entry i need in menu.lst to start a Dos-prog that i have in the folder "images" in the root of USB?

Or can anybody tell me what i must write in the AUTOEXEC.BAT to start the dos-prog from the "image"-folder after the Floppy-image boots to Dos?

Or what entry i need in the AUTOEXEC.BAT for X: that the iso can boot the Prog?

The orig AUTOEXEC.BAT from the Prog that is on a cd has this entries....

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@echo off

echo. Dos-Prog 8.05

PATH A:\

SET DIRCMD=/O:GN /L

LH A:\MSCDEX.EXE /D:OEMCD001 /L:X

a:\my\mouse.com

x:\my\Dos-prog.exe

------------------------------------------------

I hope for some answers.....

[jaclaz]

You can make a 2.88 Mb floppy image allright.

Maybe there is some error in the procedure you are following.

You can use IMDISK allright:

http://www.ltr-data.se/opencode.html#ImDisk

Maybe easier would be if you create your 2.88 Mb image with this:

http://www.nu2.nu/mkbt/

http://www.nu2.nu/mkbt/#buildimage

http://www.nu2.nu/bfi/

Or with the Shareware WinImage:

http://www.winimage.com/

Which actual type/release of DOS would the image use?

What is the "dos-prog" ? Can you name it and possibly provide a link to it's home site?

jaclaz

[LopoTRI]

i dont know what release of dos its use. It boots on every pc. where can i see it?

Its partitions magic 8 in DOS-format. I need it cause private i repair and reinstall pc´s.

And i dont want other partitions prog. i have some, but PM8 in DOS-mode is for me the easiest and fastest mode for me.

I become it from a all in one dvd for years. There was a option to make a iso image separately for PM8 and ERD-Commander 1+2.

From there i have the cd. I dont need ERD-Commander just PM8

I have just tried the ImDisk what you wrote. But there is the same problem. In GUI-mode when i mount a new floppy 2,88MB and klick "FORMAT" the windows format-manager opens. The fields "Filesize" and "File-system" are empty and its nothing i can select. Then i klick "make DOS-bootable" and when i klick start its do nothing. Have i a problem on my XP-installation?

This problem i have with virtual floppy too. And WinImage brings always an error (by 1,44MB too)

Edited February 13, 2010 by LopoTRI

[jaclaz]

Problem is that XP will only be able to create a 1.44 floppy with "Bootable MS-DOS" in it's "Format" dialog.

In Winimage:

Options->Settings->Image->Uncheck all check boxes and set compression to None

File->New->Format 2.88

File->Save As->288.ima

Image->Bootsector Properties->Windows 95/98 ->OK

Image->Inject-> (Inject FIRST, and in this order: IO.SYS MSDOS.SYS COMMAND.COM CONFIG.SYS AUTOEXEC.BAT) theln all other files

File->Save

OR, open a copy of your floppy image, then:

Image->Chnage Format->2.88

Save as

Otherwise get these:

http://www.nu2.nu/mkbt/

http://www.nu2.nu/bfi/

In IMdisk:

Mount New

Input 1474560 Bytes in "Size of Virtual Disk" set "device type" Floppy Input Letter "B"

Select drive

Format->Check "Create bootable MS-DOS"

Select drive -> Save Image->C:\bootfiles\144.img

Open a Command prompt:

mkbt -c B: C:\bootfiles\bootsect.bin

bfi -v -t=288 -b=C:\bootfiles\bootsect.bin -f=C:\bootfiles\288.img

In IMdisk:

Mount New

Select C:\bootfiles\288.img set "device type" Floppy

Open the mounted drive and copy files to it

Unmount both drives

This way you will have the 288.img with the "XP MS-DOS" bootsector (please read as "DOS 8.0/Windows Me").

You can use mkbt on "another" floppy image (like the one you already have in your hands) to get it's bootsector.

jaclaz

P.S.: However you are right, there is something that looks like "not right" when you try to format/extend a floppy image in IMDISK, I'll submit the issue to Olof.

Edited February 13, 2010 by jaclaz

[jaclaz]

Just checked, VFD:

http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html

can create/mount AND format 2.88 images allright (but of course they'll have NT bootsector, so you need anyway an utility to change the bootsector).

Let's see what's comes out of this:

http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=10410

jaclaz

[LopoTRI]

Thanks for help, but yesterday i found a topic in the web, where i read how to make 2 floppy images with winimage to one and make a bootable cd.

Thats not what i want, but i follow the steps to mount the image then to make it to a 2,88MB and with Ultra-iso copy the Bootsector from the orig image.

I tried again with winimage and errors comes on saving, till i found that the errors comes when i klick in the GUI at the "save"-Button or at the "write to Disk and save"-Button. Then i try the "save as" and woalla it saves. Then i copied the PM8 and components to the 2,88MB image and with "save as" its saves too. At last i edit the AUTOEXEC.BAT.

After finishing the image i try it and i made a breakdance when my monitor show me the GUI of PM8

It Works now on a 2,88MB Image ! ! !

Thx again.......

Edited February 13, 2010 by LopoTRI

[jaclaz]

It Works now on a 2,88MB Image ! ! !

Thx again.......

Good.

jaclaz