[pseudo]

jaclaz, on Sep 17 2009, 07:43 AM, said:

pseudo, on Sep 16 2009, 11:28 PM, said:

Yes, we have invented a way to use grub4dos, called "Programmed Menu", which can be found in pseudo's 0PE and chenall's MicroPE on wuyou forum.

Since you read and write both Chinese and English, you appear not to consider how difficult can be for a "westerner" to access the wuyou Forum.

Through Google translate it is often impossible to navigate Chinese sites, if they use .gif or .jpeg with ideograms which of course the translator cannot see "properly" and translate, and the language is so different that it is very difficult to understand the translated text anyway.

Any chance you can post a few direct links to the relevant pages?

Or create on boot-land an English Topic for those?

jaclaz

Sorry for my poor English, it was the first time I logged into a foreign website and wrote something in English. A friend named fujianabc introduced me to this site.
I would like to create on boot-land an English topic on programed menu of grub4dos after my English skills improved.

The post#15 on the grub4dos Chinese forum is in English. It shares a link of 0PE.ISO.
If you have simplified chinese windows xp/2003 installed on hard disk, it can boot into windows pe desktop and do more things if all goes well. I have not tried on an English version.

Fortunately, the functions of 0PE about installing XP/2003 to a SATA/RAID hard disk via CD or ISO (menuitem [4] User Menu with F6.ZIP and menuitem [A] Setup /WIN$.ISO) are all in English.

0PE first made SATA / RAID driver floppy disk emulation (sometimes also done iso CD-ROM emulation), and then transferred to user-defined grub4dos menu.
Through this menu, users can continue to install the system in the normal way or do otherthing.

In particular, when you have a CD, you do not need an integrated SATA/RAID drivers to it. The installation process do not need to press F6 (this feature does not depend on the firadisk).

The specified file /MYISO.ISO or /WIN$.ISO will be used when you have no CD. /WIN$.ISO can also be placed on pxe server.

If your driver is not included in F6.ZIP, you can simply pack your driver files, as /OEM_SRS.ZIP (txtsetup.oem must be located in the package of the most top-level), it will take precedence over F6.ZIP.

It exists in the way of independent components.
Its advantages were not concerned about the CD/ISO content. Nor modify the CD/ISO or hard disk content.
Therefore, it can be used to start other pe, to provide SATA / RAID driver support, or provide a permanent virtual CD, floppy disk support.

I would like to point out that key consideration here is the SATA/RAID, non-integrated, non-modified, and independent component.

[jaclaz]

First thing let me reassure you: your English, whilst maybe not being "from Oxford", is good enough, and very easy to understand, at least for another not native English speaking guy.

If you need any help in refining the English sentences of your future thread on bootland, or you need anything to start it, just PM me and I'll try my best in order to help you.


Thanks for the link, I will look at the 0PE and see what I can understand of it.


jaclaz

[pseudo]

jaclaz, on Sep 19 2009, 12:00 AM, said:

First thing let me reassure you: your English, whilst maybe not being "from Oxford", is good enough, and very easy to understand, at least for another not native English speaking guy.

If you need any help in refining the English sentences of your future thread on bootland, or you need anything to start it, just PM me and I'll try my best in order to help you.


Thanks for the link, I will look at the 0PE and see what I can understand of it.


jaclaz

Thank you jaclaz.
Climbing in the znpc forum has introduced you, so I heard your name a long time ago. Thank you for your encouragement.

I will try to discuss with you in English, but also want you to guide the forum in China.

Now, let me introduce related research in China wuyou forums (before firadisk).

We have also studied the virtual SATA / RAID driver floppy problem encountered during installation, in wuyou forums. For example, in my topic, the post#1251 to post#1272.
And we get some of the conclusions in the June 4, 2009, in the post#1251 (google translation):

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Significant progress, as long as FD0 load a non-SCSC mirror (I wonder if the empty okay, anyway, can not have TXTSETUP.OEM), FD1 load a SCSI image, you can successfully installed. Thank CHENALL much!
Please PSEUDO changed a bit procedure, by the way change it F6.ISO

I use the following tests, the default SCSI Custom
map - mem / NOSCSI.IMG (fd0)
map - mem / F6.IMG (fd1)
map - hook
chainloader (hd0) 1

Successfully installed!

This important discovery should be attributed to chenall and zhaohj. On that day, I realized this method and gives an independent component in post#5.

At this point, emulation driver floppy problem satisfactorily resolved.

Two months later, I made a topic, gives a detailed graphic tutorial. In the topic post#7, chenall further gives a grub4dos menu, only one image file is needed to be simulation of two floppy disks (google translation):

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After I install the system test several times and found the virtual two disks at the same time the best, 100% can use it. At least I have not come across can not be identified.

I GRUB4DOS main menu
# Whole file to find OEM_SCSI.IMG
find - set-root / oem_scsi.img
# Find and map (fd1)
map - mem / oem_scsi.img (fd1)
# Directly to the virtual one blank (fd0)
map - mem (md) 0x8000 +1440 (fd0)
map - hook
# At this time (fd0) is generally inaccessible to, the following sentence to make it accessible.
# Makes this blank (fd0) can access. (Of course, can also be constructed by hand, I have to make life easier fd1 directly to the first sector of a dd over a), using the root (fd0) / there will be a error but do not ignore it, As long as you can access on it.
dd if = (fd1) of = (fd0) count = 1

[jaclaz]

Thanks for the update/info . I will try studying a bit the given info, but I guess it will take me some time....

WARNING:
@all
Generic problem already found elsewhere:
Google translates REMOVES "double minus signs":

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REPLACING them with "single minus sign [space];
"single minus" are left UNTOUCHED.
Be very aware that the grub4dos menu.lst example "filtered" by Google WON'T work with copy and paste, example, this:

Quote

# Whole file to find OEM_SCSI.IMG
find - set-root / oem_scsi.img
# Find and map (fd1)
map - mem / oem_scsi.img (fd1)
# Directly to the virtual one blank (fd0)
map - mem (md) 0x8000 +1440 (fd0)
map - hook

NEEDS to be written in menu.lst as follows:

# Whole file to find OEM_SCSI.IMG 
find --set-root / oem_scsi.img 
# Find and map (fd1) 
map --mem / oem_scsi.img (fd1) 
# Directly to the virtual one blank (fd0) 
map --mem (md) 0x8000 +1440 (fd0) 
map --hook

jaclaz