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[jslegers]

Hello I have created an USB Boot stick with BootX

I have inserted HP Firmware DVD iso files and SmartStart CD iso files.
I can boot the iso files it shows the HP logo but jumps to the prompt.

What could be the problem.

Here is the menu i use for the iso files :


MENU TITLE HP Tools
INCLUDE /boot/syslinux/theme.cfg
INCLUDE /boot/syslinux/mainmenu.cfg


### MENU START
LABEL -
MENU LABEL HP Firmware DVD 8.00
LINUX /boot/syslinux/grub.exe
APPEND --config-file="ls /images/fw800.iso || find --set-root /images/fw800.iso;map --heads=0 --sectors-per-track=0 /images/fw800.iso (0xff) || map --heads=0 --sectors-per-track=0 --mem /images/fw800.iso (0xff);map --hook;chainloader (0xff)"
TEXT HELP
HP Firmware DVD 8.00
ENDTEXT
### MENU END

### MENU START
LABEL -
MENU LABEL HP Firmware DVD 9.30 x64
LINUX /boot/syslinux/grub.exe
APPEND --config-file="ls /images/fw930.iso || find --set-root /images/fw930.iso;map --heads=0 --sectors-per-track=0 /images/fw930.iso (0xff) || map --heads=0 --sectors-per-track=0 --mem /images/fw930.iso (0xff);map --hook;chainloader (0xff)"
TEXT HELP
HP Firmware DVD 9.30 x64
ENDTEXT
### MENU END

### MENU START
LABEL -
MENU LABEL HP SmartStart 8.70 x86
LINUX /boot/syslinux/grub.exe
APPEND --config-file="ls /images/ss870x86.iso || find --set-root /images/ss870x86.iso;map --heads=0 --sectors-per-track=0 /images/ss870x86.iso (0xff) || map --heads=0 --sectors-per-track=0 --mem /images/ss870x86.iso (0xff);map --hook;chainloader (0xff)"
TEXT HELP
HP SmartStart 8.70 x86
ENDTEXT
### MENU END

### MENU START
LABEL -
MENU LABEL HP SmartStart 8.70 x64
LINUX /boot/syslinux/grub.exe
APPEND --config-file="ls /images/ss870x64.iso || find --set-root /images/ss870x64.iso;map --heads=0 --sectors-per-track=0 /images/ss870x64.iso (0xff) || map --heads=0 --sectors-per-track=0 --mem /images/ss870x64.iso (0xff);map --hook;chainloader (0xff)"
TEXT HELP
HP SmartStart 8.70 x64
ENDTEXT
### MENU END

What am I doing wrong ?

John

[Icecube]

What am I doing wrong ?

Trying to boot the whole ISO. Once the linux kernel is booted, it can't find the files inside the ISO because it doesn't look for it (assuming that those ISOs use a linux kernel).

You probably need to extract it.

• List all the files inside the ISOs.
• List the content of the isolinux.cfg file of the ISOs.

[jslegers]

Trying to boot the whole ISO. Once the linux kernel is booted, it can't find the files inside the ISO because it doesn't look for it (assuming that those ISOs use a linux kernel).

You probably need to extract it.

• List all the files inside the ISOs.
• List the content of the isolinux.cfg file of the ISOs.

Here is the content of the fw930 iso file:

u:\images\fw930.iso\_autorun\



 

u:\images\fw930.iso\addon\

u:\images\fw930.iso\boot.images\

u:\images\fw930.iso\compaq\

u:\images\fw930.iso\hp\

u:\images\fw930.iso\system\

u:\images\fw930.iso\usb\

u:\images\fw930.iso\xml\

u:\images\fw930.iso\autorun

u:\images\fw930.iso\autorun.cmd

u:\images\fw930.iso\autorun.inf

I have found a syslinux.cfg file in the usb dir:

#CHECK_SERVER blacklist



DEFAULT /vesamenu.c32

PROMPT 0

 

MENU TITLE HP Smart Update Firmware Boot Menu

MENU BACKGROUND /back.jpg

TIMEOUT 300

 

label sos

  MENU LABEL Automatic Firmware Update Version 9.30

  kernel /hpboot_v.c32

  append /vmlinuz initrd=/initrd.img media=usb: rw root=/dev/ram0 ramdisk_size=355492 init=/bin/init loglevel=3 ide=nodma ide=noraid nopat pnpbios=off vga=791 splash=silent hp_memcap=1 hp_fibre showopts TYPE=AUTOMATIC

 

label vsos

  MENU LABEL Interactive Firmware Update Version 9.30

  kernel /hpboot_v.c32

  append /vmlinuz initrd=/initrd.img media=usb: rw root=/dev/ram0 ramdisk_size=355492 init=/bin/init loglevel=3 ide=nodma ide=noraid nopat pnpbios=off vga=791 splash=silent hp_memcap=1 hp_fibre showopts TYPE=MANUAL

 

 

label harddisk

  MENU HIDE Boot from Hard Disk

  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 sos

ALLOWOPTIONS 1

Looks like i can't boot the iso file completely.

[Wonko the Sane]

The HP smartStart cannot be booted as .iso.
See this (AND links in it):
http://reboot.pro/15436/

SEARCH and you shall find......


Wonko

[jslegers]

The HP smartStart cannot be booted as .iso.
See this (AND links in it):
http://reboot.pro/15436/

SEARCH and you shall find......


Wonko

Hi,

I have been testing further with this. I have made the following entry :

### MENU START
label -
MENU LABEL SmartStart 8.70 x86
kernel /images/hpssx86/hpboot_v.c32
append /images/hpssx86/vmlinuz initrd=images/hpssx86/initrd.img media=usb: rw root=/dev/ram0 ramdisk_size=407356 init=/bin/init loglevel=3 ide=nodma ide=noraid nopat pnpbios=off vga=791 noexec32=off nox2apic splash=silent showopts
### MENU END

When I try to start it I get an error that hpboot_v.c32 not a valid com32r image is. How can i resolve this ?

[Icecube]

You didn't read the posted links very well.

Read this topic:
http://reboot.pro/14178/

[jslegers]

Sorry,

Didn't see that. It works now.