HP utilities
HP USB Key Utility
I noticed HP USB Key Utility included into <CDroot>\usb\hpusbkey install outdated SYSLINUX 3.75 2009-04-16
syslinux.exe -fma %DEST%
I have updated to SYSLINUX 3.82 2009-06-09 to get WinPE 3 boot:
Booting BOOTMGR from syslinux/UBCD?
I have added grub4dos to boot WinPE 1.6
current syslinux.cfg:
DEFAULT /syslinux/vesamenu.c32 MENU TITLE HP USB BOOT Menu MENU BACKGROUND hpusb.jpg INCLUDE common.cfg ALLOWOPTIONS 0 LABEL HPSS860_32 MENU LABEL HP SmartStart 8.60 x86 KERNEL /HPSS860_32/vesamenu.c32 APPEND HPSS860_32/usbmenu.cfg mainmenu.cfg LABEL HPSS860_64 MENU LABEL HP SmartStart 8.60 x64 KERNEL /syslinux/vesamenu.c32 APPEND HPSS860_64/usbmenu.cfg mainmenu.cfg LABEL HPFWUP920B MENU LABEL HP Smart Update Firmware DVD 9.20B KERNEL vesamenu.c32 APPEND HPFWUP920B/usbmenu.cfg mainmenu.cfg LABEL WINPE3 MENU LABEL WINPE3 COM32 /syslinux/chain.c32 APPEND boot ntldr=/BOOTMGR LABEL grub4dos MENU LABEL Boot grub4dos (grldr) BOOT /grldr TIMEOUT 0 ONTIMEOUT GRUB4DOS
After updating SYSLINUX from 3.75 to 3.82, i can't no longer boot HPSS860_32 or HPSS860_64
totallly noob at (sys)linux, i just noticed submenu is loaded and probably 1st part initrd is run but after i only get a boot: prompt
usbmenu.cfg
#CHECK_SERVER blacklist DEFAULT HPSS860_64/vesamenu.c32 PROMPT 0 MENU TITLE SmartStart Boot Menu MENU BACKGROUND HPSS860_64/back.jpg TIMEOUT 50 label vsos MENU LABEL SmartStart 8.60 x64 kernel HPSS860_64/hpboot_v.c32 append HPSS860_64/vmlinuz initrd=HPSS860_64/initrd.img media=usb:HPSS860_64 rw root=/dev/ram0 ramdisk_size=396332 init=/bin/init loglevel=3 ide=nodma ide=noraid nopat pnpbios=off vga=791 noexec32=off nox2apic splash=silent showopts label sos MENU HIDE kernel HPSS860_64/hpboot.c32 append HPSS860_64/vmlinuz initrd=HPSS860_64/initrd.img media=usb:HPSS860_64 rw root=/dev/ram0 ramdisk_size=396332 init=/bin/init loglevel=3 ide=nodma ide=noraid nopat pnpbios=off splash=silent noexec32=off nox2apic showopts label harddisk MENU HIDE LOCALBOOT 1 MENU COLOR sel 7;37;44 #ff0030a5 #ff94c3f7 none MENU COLOR unsel 34;47 #ff0030a5 #ffffffff none MENU COLOR border 37;47 #ffd3d6e7 #ffd3d6e7 none MENU COLOR title 37;47 #ff0030a5 #ffd3d6e7 none MENU COLOR timeout 1;37;44 #ffffffff #00000000 none MENU TABMSG MENU AUTOBOOT # MENU WIDTH 50 MENU MARGIN 1 MENU ROWS 4 MENU TABMSGROW 23 MENU CMDLINEROW 23 MENU ENDROW 24 MENU TIMEOUTROW 16 MENU HSHIFT 16 MENU VSHIFT 8 ONTIMEOUT vsos ALLOWOPTIONS 1
if i revert to SYSLINUX 3.75 2009-04-16, i can load HPSS860_64 but no longer boot WINPE3
I have tried updating to SYSLINUX 3.86 but no success.
Need expert advice to get all options working.