teknojunkie Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 Hi guys, Lets make this look professional by making a little GUI for this and it is Possible but need some help on adding it into the ISOLINUX.CFG file which looks like this CODE 1 PROMPT 0 TIMEOUT 90 DEFAULT /mboot.c32 /boot --- /initrd.img while the ones that I have seen look like this. CODE 2 default install prompt 1 timeout 0 display boot.msg label install kernel vmlinuz append ks=cdrom:/ks.cfg initrd=initrd.img text So if anyone can help me place the files where they belong into CODE 2 would be nice I tried this PROMPT 0 TIMEOUT 90 DEFAULT /mboot.c32 /boot --- /initrd.img DISPLAY boot.msg but never worked and gave me a checksum error here is some more help http://members.chello.at/bobby100/ILpart1.htm Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teknojunkie Posted July 12, 2008 Author Share Posted July 12, 2008 any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DivXBoy Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 What does your boot.msg contain? Try this one. Name your image splash.lss. boot.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teknojunkie Posted July 16, 2008 Author Share Posted July 16, 2008 What does your boot.msg contain? Try this one. Name your image splash.lss. my boot image contain a little welcome text about the file, nothing do with codes, so did you get yours to boot up yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DivXBoy Posted July 16, 2008 Share Posted July 16, 2008 my boot image contain a little welcome text about the file, nothing do with codes, so did you get yours to boot up yet I think it's loading, but I think my lss image is not in the right format or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teknojunkie Posted July 16, 2008 Author Share Posted July 16, 2008 I think it's loading, but I think my lss image is not in the right format or something. try mine see if it boots up with it and how did u get it to load what did you add in the ISOLINUX.CFG file splash.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA_SONG_MAN Posted July 16, 2008 Share Posted July 16, 2008 What would be cool is that boot-132 advances to be made for Linux(Ubuntu pref), Mac OS X and Windows installion, and you could just have a drag and drop options for kexts and bootable from usb and not from CD for first installion and it could work with pcwiz's os x tools. This could be so cool for noobs and occasional lazy-asses like myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DivXBoy Posted July 16, 2008 Share Posted July 16, 2008 try mine see if it boots up with it and how did u get it to load what did you add in the ISOLINUX.CFG file splash.zip Got it. The trick is to set PROMPT to 1 and TIMEOUT to 0 in the .cfg file. Now we have the splash, but we have to press enter to boot and then the splash disappears. So maybe a splash screen during the whole load is not possible with syslunix, because of it's limitations? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teknojunkie Posted July 17, 2008 Author Share Posted July 17, 2008 Thats strange Im thinkin you should be able to. I have read of several threads and articles that they have managed to have the splash full time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbonkers Posted September 7, 2008 Share Posted September 7, 2008 trying to make my splash but i cant find giftoppm file. can someone that have it upload it. thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbonkers Posted September 7, 2008 Share Posted September 7, 2008 vesamenu.c32? is that another file? can you post a screen shot of your boot-132. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GLXOZ Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Screenshot How and where you take this file (vesamenu.c32). Without this your script not work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teknojunkie Posted September 11, 2008 Author Share Posted September 11, 2008 very nice. you can boot with different images Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3Dman Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 I found some Leopard Boot screens they will look good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knowmonger Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 Guys, make it with QT so that it would work natively with Windows, Linux and Mac. That would be awesome. Just a suggestion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GLXOZ Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 Google vesamenu.c32 it will give you plenty of info. Thanx, i found it! All work fine. My screen, maybe poor and ugly, but my work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EGOvoruhk Posted September 21, 2008 Share Posted September 21, 2008 This is what I'm using on my 8G usb thumb.works well. What's the difference between your normal and retail IMG files? Care to share your USB drives contents? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MACinized Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 u guys are really great. how close is this to having a real gui boot splash screen where it's less text-based? is it also possible to have 2 partitions in a single hdd (winxp on 1 partition & retail leopard on the other) as boot options? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EGOvoruhk Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 You can have Vista and Leopard on a single HDD. XP doesn't support GUID partitions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MACinized Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 You can have Vista and Leopard on a single HDD. XP doesn't support GUID partitions my problem is how to automatically boot to a particular partition of the harddisk. w/ the .cfg file in boot-132, how can i specify w/c partition to boot from? [EDIT] my syslinux.cfg contains these: DEFAULT vesamenu.c32 PROMPT 0 TIMEOUT 50 ONTIMEOUT Retail MENU TITLE BOOT-132 LOADER MENU VSHIFT 5 MENU ROWS 3 MENU TABMSGROW 15 MENU TABMSG Press [ENTER] to boot selected menu entry MENU HELPMSGROW 17 MENU HELPMSGENDROW -3 MENU AUTOBOOT BIOS default device boot in # second{,s}... MENU COLOR title * #3366cc * MENU COLOR border * FFFFFFFF #FFFFFFFF * MENU COLOR sel * #ffffffff # FF5255FF * LABEL Windows XP KERNEL mboot.c32 boot LABEL menu MENU HIDE KERNEL vesamenu.c32 LABEL Retail MENU DEFAULT MENU LABEL Mac OS X Leopard KERNEL mboot.c32 boot --- INITRD.IMG boot menu screen is displayed & after ONTIMEOUT, i intend to boot my retail leopard install w/c is in the 3rd partition of my hdd. but all i got is the usual boot/partition selector of boot-132: in my case, i have 3 partitions, winxp is on 1st, boot-132 on 2nd, & leopard on 3rd. hd(0,1) Windows NTFS hd(0,2) hd(0,3) Macintosh what should i do so that ONTIMEOUT, i get to boot the 3rd partition of my hdd? another thing, tried MENU BACKGROUND but i can't seem to have my preferred image. what do i need to do? advice pls. tia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EGOvoruhk Posted September 23, 2008 Share Posted September 23, 2008 I don't know about your ONTIMEOUT problem, but is the PNG file you're using for MENU BACKGROUND 640x480? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MACinized Posted September 23, 2008 Share Posted September 23, 2008 I don't know about your ONTIMEOUT problem, but is the PNG file you're using for MENU BACKGROUND 640x480? yup. image's resolution is 640x480. hmn.. why won't it be displayed as menu's background? i'm more interested though to automatically boot my retail leopard install, which is in the 3rd partition. any advice? [EDIT] didn't expect that image should be named "splash" to be used as menu background. named mine as "background.png" & was not displayed. then i renamed as "splash.png" & voila! a pretty bootloader menu background. hope someone knows how to boot from a particular partition after initrd.img is loaded. not sure but i begin to notice that after initrd.img is loaded, it's already beyond the control of syslinux. if this is so, what can do the trick of automatically booting the retail leopard install after boot-132? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MACinized Posted September 24, 2008 Share Posted September 24, 2008 hope someone can really share his/her knowledge on how to automatically boot from a specific partition via the boot-132-syslinux. else, this simple menu system via vesamenu.c32 is no other than a "pretty"-delay to manually boot a retail leopard install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MACinized Posted September 24, 2008 Share Posted September 24, 2008 If you have a big enough Thumb Drive, Have a leopard installer as one of the partitions and have the boot.plist point to the HD you want to boot. Use rd= ????Haven't tried it but it WILL/SHOULD work. hi there STLVNUB. were u referring to somewhat like this? it no longer makes use of syslinux, right? will u know what are the minimum requirements for com.apple.Boot.plist to be loaded? & will it still be possible via boot-132-syslinux? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MACinized Posted September 24, 2008 Share Posted September 24, 2008 Actually, Disregard what I said. If you could do that, you could get it to boot the HD. i'd like to experiment w/ roisoft's approach using boot-132-syslinux. any advice? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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