Hey All

I Made A Custom Boot Menu (With Easy Boot 5) I Think Some People Would Be Interested In, Its For Windows XP (But Could Work For 2000 / 2003 with modification)
It Has A Standard Install And An Automated Install Menu Button Which Launches An Automated Install From the I386
directory right where the standard setup is too (no need for 2 directories anymore ), ive included the hacked setup1dr.bin in the archive which calls AUTOI.SIF instead of winnt.sif (to make your setupldr.bin load AUTOI.SIF simply open up a hexor editor search and replace text string WINNT.SIF with AUTOI.SIF and also replace winnt.sif lower case strings too)
It Has A Progress Bar At The Bottom And A Ten Second Timer Which Automatically Boot From Hard Disk

Here It Is



Download Link (459516 bytes)

To Get It To Work You Need To Set The loader.bin in the ezboot folder as the boot file

Jus curious is that a progress bar at bottom
any way i'll go through
I hav made amenu with easyboot which can install
win xp pro.win 98 and win2k pro.it also has some rescue tools
incase the hard disk fails.Also with ability to boot from HDD and
reboot.I htink u dint need that much features so u dint put them
But I definitly need them

Yup it is and i forgot to mention its got a 10 second timer once its up it will automatically boot from hdd




Me 2. i just made this basic one for anyone who wanted it

i can easily make one for all but that would specifically require the user to put all the required oses in a certian directory (unless they modified the bootfile)

Hey,

I've created a graphical boot menu with the program CD SHell.
All Layer info is included so all files are fully editable.

These files and other modded multiboot-files of 5128 can be found at http://bhs.gwmfiles.com/index.php?page=downloads

I am using cdshell for this bootmenu
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greetzz

EDIT:

note: only for use in combination with cdshell :
direct download
homepage

boot menu download link:
Boot-menu-by5128

here yu go

Excellent !!!

please post link....

links added

dam can't download it

yeah rapidshare servers are under maintance or something like that until 1-1-2006

5128 please man....tutorial the is software...

not convert is my code:
convert.exe -bmp2csi about.bmp -o about.csi

no convert ??

yeah sure,,

when you download my bootmenu:
you got to do this:

1) edit the .PNG graphic files and save them as 24-bit BMP
or just save them as 24-bit BMP
2) run 'BMP2csi.cmd'
3) place the output files in the cdshell folder in your AIODVD.

AIODVD
>Boot\
>>loader.bin (set a bootimage)
>>Cdshell.ini
>>graphics\ (put .csi here)
>Setup\
>OEM\

man sorry,,friend I do not mean that to that file BMP2csi.cmd me this not to turn imagenes that??

Thats Rather A Exellent Boot Menu Welldone sir

thank yu

the two boot menu is so great and nice
thanks guys for sharing

Excellent shares.. Thanks.

@5128

Apon opening your .png files in fireworks it says im missing two fonts and two filters could you please post these?

very exelnte work btw

just a quick Q (probably dumb one lol)

this is for a grafical dos bot menu right????
will it in that case also support a 2.1gb mutiboot CD (not dvd),
like for example MS uses for 'is cdroms

*note: you can fit virtual 2gb of installers in an 800mb cdrom, if you normalie would have 3 win2k3 versions and burn a single file only to 1 location if it normal would have been added 3times).

so now i ask if this boot manu also works on those kinds of cd's / dvd's

@-I-

The best way is to find it out by yourself Though I've never had issues with my CDShell boot menu, what kind of iso format i was using...

@Gen.Alexander

Which two fonts and which 2 plugins? For the Fonts you might wanna take a look here www.1001freefonts.com, that;s the place where I always search for new ones, so they might come from this site. For the plugins, I think you mean my AlienSkin Plugin, you have to buy you own, or search on the internet for yourself.

gr

I 've edited my bootmenu and uploaded, see page1

i want to create a new boot menu for the community that can be used by everyone
but it need some ideas for what to put into it
also i need some ideas for the backgrounds im going to be using... im going to make the menu with submenus too

here goes mine..

Easy Boot 5

screenshot 1 (based on Vista )


screenshot 2 (based on XP MCE)

these are great menus with wise thoughts when making them

of course,
these menu and toolz will come on handy in any operation.
Especially recovery console on a automated XP,,
partition magic, windows 98 bootable, ghost, antivirus tools, are the tools to talk abt few..

How difficult is it to put 2 different OSes requiring I386 folders in the root under EZBoot? Do you think it is worth the effort?

for dual boot,, it is not concerned with ezboot,, ezboot is just for multiboot,,
for multiboot requiring same i386, u need to go through multiboot CD/ DVD guide by gosh. u need to hack some files to change the folder structure. some of them are boot.bin(boot sector), txtsetup.sif, setupldr.bin

I have seen a dvd image of 4.3 gb with ezboot menu system containing close to 30 different distros. Each distro is in a folder which is not necessrily a 4 character name. Each folder contains its own i386 folder and other files which you would find within each individual individual setup cd. Not a single file is hacked. I have checked quite a few of them by binary compare.

If I simply copy the contents of such a folder & add a appropriate boot.bin to create a cd they work absolutely perfectly.

So there must be something in EZBOOT menu system that allows it.

These do not boot to dos & run winnt.exe. These are all standard installations.

i can't believe this is possible without editing some files,
First thing it is build with optimize option, (crosslinking identical files) therefore it can hold as many distros.
second thing there must be each relavent folder that points to the dedicated folder, for that, open the ISO with ultraISO(it will show the hidden content of the ISO)
inside the ezboot folder check all the boot.bin (or just like same) in notepad. It must show some thing like this at the end of the file SETUPLDR.BINBOOTFIX.BINHOME . Here boot.bin is pointing HOME directory. Now go to home directory(Approx 8 - 10 MB only) open the txtsetup.sif in notepad. Search for SetupSourcePath = "\SETUP\XP\XPhome\" , again it is pointing the main root folder, i.e inside setup\xp\xphome. here nothing is changed. the folder name is also i386. (this is just a simple idea, this may vary with ur iso but the idea is same) Simillarly check other boot sectors inside ezboot folder open that with notepad, find out the folder name, go to that folder open txtsetup.sif with notepad and search for SetupSourcePath = "XXX\XXXX\XXXX".

As mentioned earlier I have already done that. I also know how optimisation works. I have also seen ERD commander & OOBE boot disks with doctored setuplder.bin If I were to copy the contents of the DVD to a hard disk in conventional manner using say Total Commander it would take up close to 45 GB of space.

Just to check it out I simply copied the folder under w2kpro to my hard disk. Found the relevant boot.bin on the net, it is available from a hundred different places. Used it as a boot loader pointing to \i386\setupldr.bin & burnt a cd. The I386 folder was in the root of the CD. In such a scenariomany changes to setupldr.bin on txtsetup.sif should render it invalid.

It booted & installed in full unattended mode. It dis not go the winnt.exe route either.

So I am assuming that it must be doing something different.

Even BCDW can boot BartPE with a simple change of the I386 folder to say WNPE & pointing to \WNPE\setupldr.bin to run live CD.

I have looked up a lot of material on putting 2 different OSes requiring I386 folders in the root of the CD. I have never seen any reference to editing txtsetup.sif, only to changing setupldr.bin in 3 - 4 locations & renaming from \I386 to say \W2KP or the like. I have tried this approach but it did not work It asked for the service pack disk. Same compilation with the I386 folder name unchanged & undoctored setupldr.bin file installed without a single hitch or prompt.

if it is asking the service pack DISK then the problem is something else,,
the CD root contents are not complete
u must keep relevent files intact

eg
WIN51IP
WIN51IP.SP2
WIN51.. (depends upon the version of windows XP, 2K, 2K3.........)


if u miss these files, the CD is worthless to boot from CD and run unattended

Note:
the process i explained was for clean install process which will boost up the installation more then 5 minutes.. but doesn't work for upgrade.


for this boot.bin must be pointing to WNPE, i must be sure on this

To make the structure like this
CD
-all version of TAG files (WIN51IP, WIN51IP.SP2, WIN51, WIN51IP.SP1, blah blah blah)
-home
------i386
------files
------folders (all necessary which comes on OEM CD)
-PRO1
------i386
------folders (all necessary which comes on OEM CD)
-MDEA
------i386
------folders (all necessary which comes on OEM CD)

in this case, each boot.bin should be pointing to their respective folder, again setupldr.bin is pointing each respective folder. thats all

I will give it a go over the weekend. So I am assuming I have to hex both the boot.bin & setupldr.bin.

In this case my path increases by more than 4 characters & will change the file size. If I am simply changeing the I386 occurances then that approach has not worked.

Simply for testing purpose I changed the name of the I386 folder. Used the hexed setupldr.bin & booted the cd. It did not work. I restored the I386 name & restored the unhexed setupldr.bin & worked flawlessly. So I am not missing file in my compilation.

If possible could you pm me the output of dir2text file for the directory structure? Will work from there.

Thanks.

Can i have the content of boot utilities

uuphss,,
u cannot get those without purchasing. warez,cracks and piracy are not discussed in this forum
sorry to let u know,,
some of the programs are not free,
better u purchase those

Nepali... i registered on this forum just to prove you wrong, i'm not sure where you got your information, but that is entirely incorrect.

cdshell is free for non-commercial use. presonal use is free.

oh my god....

read the post clearly first ...


Focused : Can i have the content of boot utilities
he is asking the content of boot utilities not the program to build boot menu


if i am posting in this forum, i must know CDSHELL is absolutely free

i would be great ful if u could provide me those stuff for free
including ERD commander, Norton Antivirus, Partition magic, Drive image, Ghost, Recovery Disk.

and thanks for regestering on MSFN
Welcome to MSFN

Thank u both of u:)
it was a nice share!!!!
it solved one of my big problems.but unfortunately it seems, rapidshare has deleted cdshell boot menu.
may someone reupload it somewhere.


Thanks in advance

may someone reupload the boot menu which is made by CD-Shell plz. it seems it`s deleted!

for Godsake plz
there`s nobody here to reupload it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

easy pal

http://regtweakage.professorcpu.com/download/CDSm.rar

only for personal use
PNG files editable with Macromedia Fireworks free trial on the www ( use google)

gr
HJW

I really appreciate you
thanks for your attention

reuploaded the boot menu, ive been offline and ignorant for some time now,,, sorry about that

WOWWWW!!!
great MENU!!!
pls fix the link... so we can enjoy it to (I mean the graphical menu!)

thanks again!

can you fix the link?!
please!!!

added an adrive link the download should work now

sorry.. still not working or we don't talking about the same link..

can u give me the correct one that works? (for the graphical one..)

i was on about my own menu lol
i dont have any of the others... and yeah long time since ive been on here

Please fix links. No one works! Can't download.