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Live XP SDI USB BOOT with RAM Image
#1
Posted 27 February 2011 - 10:53 AM
I try to create a booting USB key since my DVD is out...
I have a solution with firadisk and SDI, that works in QEmu from ISO, but is very slow to boot form USB...
Basically, at boot, it says
Try hd(0,0): Fat32: --> This is USB stick
Then Grub with LiveXP virtual SCSI
Then 14 Minutes to create the drive !!!
GRUB Loader is:
Map HD(0) HD(20) && map hook
map --mem /I386/BOOTSDI.IMG (HD0)
map --hook
Chainloader (hd0,0)/NTLDR
And
then it says probed C/H/S = 26/255/63, probed total sectors = 417690
during 14 minutes !!
Then XP loads, and it works...
Is there something wrong ?
Tnaks for your help
#2
Posted 27 February 2011 - 03:50 PM
#3
Posted 27 February 2011 - 04:16 PM
- some motherboards have USB 1.1 chips <- they WON'T benefit from ANYTHING
- some motherboards have USB 2.0 chips AND boot at 2.0 speed <- they WON'T benefit from ANYTHING
(and your setup has some OTHER problem)
- some motherboards have USB 2.0 chips BUT boot at 1.1 speed <- you'll have a GREAT enhancement using PLoP, if it works on your motherboard
Typical (completely faked
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http://www.msfn.org/.../page__st__1326
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Wonko
#4
Posted 28 February 2011 - 11:15 PM
I think i'll be patient... it's personal computer, not for my company, so i have time.
Or i give up with the image, and use PE2USB which is fine for what i do...
i tried on 2 computers. One very old, the other one is a 2 years old desktop with a Core 2 Duo E5200
I still have a question: What is Plop ? (i know all my computers have PXE Load option)
And what does "Try hd(0,0): Fat32: " refers to? -> Is that GRUB of USB stick?
If USB stick is HD0, should i map it?
Because Fat32 is USB Key (It changed when i tried FAT16), but USB is HD(2,0) (like HD0 is SATA Hard Drive, HD(1)should be SD card reader and HD(2) the USB stick...
Thanks for your all website.
#5
Posted 01 March 2011 - 12:03 AM
The Plop boot manager actually has nothing to do with PXE load option. It is a program that you can run very early in your computer's boot process and gives you choices about what you want to boot. It also includes a "boot from USB" feature, that sometimes yields better performance than the BIOS' "boot from USB" feature, as Wonko the Sane detailed.I still have a question: What is Plop ? (i know all my computers have PXE Load option)
(hd0,0) means: First BIOS hard disk drive, first partition. So it is a partition, not "GRUB of USB stick". You might have GRUB installed to that partition, maybe not.And what does "Try hd(0,0): Fat32: " refers to? -> Is that GRUB of USB stick?
If USB stick is HD0, should i map it?
When using a "boot from USB" feature, it is common that if the USB storage is emulated as a hard disk drive, then it will be the "first BIOS hard disk drive", and any internal hard disk drive(s) will become the "second BIOS hard disk drive," the "third BIOS hard disk drive," and so on.
How do you know that "USB is (hd2,0)"? Here is a common scenario:Because Fat32 is USB Key (It changed when i tried FAT16), but USB is HD(2,0) (like HD0 is SATA Hard Drive, HD(1)should be SD card reader and HD(2) the USB stick...
Boot from HDD, CD/DVD, PXE: First physical, internal HDD == (hd0) == INT 0x13 drive 0x80 == First BIOS hard disk drive Second physical, internal HDD == (hd1) == INT 0x13 drive 0x81 == Second BIOS hard disk drive Boot from USB: USB storage device == (hd0) == INT 0x13 drive 0x80 == First BIOS hard disk drive First physical, internal HDD == (hd1) == INT 0x13 drive 0x81 == Second BIOS hard disk drive Second physical, internal HDD == (hd2) == INT 0x13 drive 0x82 == Third BIOS hard disk drive
#6
Posted 01 March 2011 - 12:18 PM
I still have a question: What is Plop ? (i know all my computers have PXE Load option)
Here:
http://tinyurl.com/5uml2aq
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Wonko
#7
Posted 02 November 2011 - 03:59 PM
"The Plop boot manager actually has nothing to do with PXE load option."
Speak for yourself, I have plop as the default choice on my PXE server.
I would have it on my hard drive, but it seems to install over the GPT part of my hybrid GPT/MBR drive. It's a pity he's never released source. It also can't boot (or chainload) an MBR, which is a pity.
However, it can boot a logical partition, so in theory you could have a heap of tiny logical partitions that loaded other boot loaders if you needed.
I think one day I will attempt to burn plop into my bios.
#9
Posted 27 November 2011 - 02:42 PM
LABEL plp LINUX plpbt.bin MENU LABEL The Plop Boot Manager MENU DEFAULT TEXT HELP The Plop Boot Manager is a small program to boot different operating systems. ENDTEXT
"PLOP: The only way to boot a USB drive in VMware Fusion"
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