TheKid72 Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 Ok, after two days I am exhausted. I have been using Barts Network Boot disk successfully for a while, THANK YOU BART!. It works great. I use the network boot disk to boot the computer and then from there I launch Ghost 8 from the network and use an image that is stored on the network. (I know a PXE boot would be more efficient and easier, but it was not my decision, otherwise I would be usings a sysprep image and PXE boot) Now two days ago I got a laptop that has no floppy disk drive, no surpise there, and I have been trying to create a boot disk that will do the same thing. I followed the instructions for creating Barts BootCD and Corporate Modboot but neither worked. My last ditch effort was to create a floppy disk image and use Roxio Easy CD and DVD Creator to create a boot CD from floppy. I used BFI to create a floppy disk image and then used Roxio's boot cd creator to create a boot CD using that image. When I try to boot from the CD, it flashes a quick message across the screen and then goes ahead and boots the OS on the machine.Please help me out here guys, where am I going wrong. Additonal Info: I was able to slow down the boot up and the message that I receive that "flashes" is that it does not find the image file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobby100 Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 There is a issue with floppy emulation if BIOS don't support floppy (in most cases if computer don't have floppy - floppy handling code isn't included in BIOS).Try some other tools that uses floppy images and if the situation is the same - it's the BIOS thing and there is no solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strangefruit Posted August 5, 2004 Share Posted August 5, 2004 cd works in cdfs while f;oppy work in fat12 that drives the computer crazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheKid72 Posted August 5, 2004 Author Share Posted August 5, 2004 I created the boot cd using 1.44 floppy emulation, Hard Disk emulation and no emulation at all and none have worked. I should have mentioned that I am creating the boot cd on a desktop computer that has a floppy drive installed.I was able to create a bootable cd using a Windows 98 boot floppy, but that does not give me any network support so that I can run Ghost and get a good image of the laptop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobby100 Posted August 5, 2004 Share Posted August 5, 2004 Did you use CD-RW media?They seems to be too slow to read, and BIOS don't wait so long. Try using other more standard media, and burn it at less speed (CD-R 640mb at <12x).I don't have expirience with Roxio, maybe there is a problem.Also try to boot ISO image of your CD in some Virtual Machine (VMware, Bochs, QEMU...). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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