Adding Paraon Drive Backup 7 to MultiDVD

[Techie30]

Greetings,

I'm working on my Multi build DVD using cdshell. So far everything is working great. I'm wondering if anyone knows how to or what is needed to also include the paragon drive image 7 bootable CD? I've created my dat file, put the cd files in the root of my dvd but only boots to a blank screen. I have a feeling the bootable CD is using Linux and that may be the problem. Anyone out there try this and have it working?

I extracted just the dos version and it loads to some extent then tells me it cannot find the recovery cd.

Thanks in advance.

[Techie30]

Nevermind, found my solution.

http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=12811

[amd64lover]

how did you add the cdrom drivers and modify the variables in the autoexec.bat file & menu.bat file?

[Techie30]

Here is what I did for DOS...

I opened the DOS.IMG file and injected mscdex.exe along with cd1.sys, cd2.sys, cd3.sys, cd4.sys into the img file. I edited the autoexec.bat as follows...

AUTOEXEC.BAT

@echo off

echo Welcome to PTS-DOS (PARAGON Recovery CD)

rem SHSUCDX /D:CD001 /D:USBCD001

rem SHSUCDX /D:USBCD001

rem SHSUCDX /D:CD001

a:

cd \

mouse.com

mscdex.exe /d:CDDRIVE /L:R

dos_lang

doslfn.com

SET CDDRIVE = R

if "%CDDRIVE%"=="" goto cdnfound

set LETTER=R:

cd \ntfs4dos

if "%LANG%"=="" goto nmnt

call nd.bat 8192 -lfn -mountall -cd:%CDDRIVE%:%LETTER%

goto cont

:nmnt

call nd.bat 8192 -lfn -cd:%CDDRIVE%:%LETTER%

set LANG=en

:cont

if "%LETTER%"=="" goto cdnfound

SET PATH=a:\;%LETTER%\dos;%LETTER%\dos\dn;%LETTER%\dos\english\links

SET LINKS=%LETTER%\dos\english\links

a:

cd \menu

menu.bat

goto out

:cdnfound

echo Recovery cd not found!

:out

CONFIG.SYS

files=20

buffers=10

stacks=0,0

break=on

lastdrive=z

switches=/F

DEVICE=HIMEM64.EXE

dos=low

rem device=vide-cdd.sys /D:CD001

rem device=usbaspi.sys /v

rem device=di1000dd.sys /v /w

rem device=usbcd.sys /d:USBCD001

DEVICE=cd1.SYS /D:CDDRIVE

shell=command.com /E:256 /P

break = ON

MENU.BAT

@echo off

if %LANG%.==DE. set LANG=GE

goto %LANG%LCL

:ENLCL

set LOCAL=english

goto menu

:menu

a:

cd a:\menu

dos_menu.exe menu_%LANG%.txt

if errorlevel 9 goto do_job9

if errorlevel 8 goto do_job8

if errorlevel 6 goto do_job6

if errorlevel 5 goto do_job5

if errorlevel 2 goto do_job2

if errorlevel 1 goto do_job1

:do_job2

%LETTER%

cd \pgon\dos\%LOCAL%\psidb\personal (changed the path of where my paragon files are)

cwsdpr0.exe -s-

psi.exe -o none --input "mountlist(-1,-1)"

pause

goto menu

:do_job1

%LETTER%

set LINKS=%LETTER%\dos\%LOCAL%\links

cd \pgon\dos\%LOCAL%\db\personal

cwsdpr0.exe -s-

pm.exe SRW_OPTS

goto menu

:do_job6

dn.com

goto menu

:do_job8

goto end

:do_job9

reboot.com

goto menu

:do_job5

%LETTER%

set LINKS=%LETTER%\dos\%LOCAL%\links

cd \pgon\dos\%LOCAL%\db\personal

cwsdpr0.exe -s-

pm.exe SRW_OPTS

goto menu

:end

Did you get the Linux portion to work? I tried per those instructions and keep getting an error when using ISOLinux and cdshell....

VFS: Cannot open root device "" or 03:03

Please append a correct "root=" boot option

Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root FS on 03:03

My isolinux.cfg looks like this and all my files are in /PGON/..

isolinux /PGON/BZIMAGE

append initrd=/PGON/INITRD.GZ splash=silent quiet root=/dev/ram/0 eng_ver vga=0x314

Thanks

[amd64lover]

where did you get the cd.sys files from?

[Jotnar]

@amd64lover

You can get the generic cdrom driver file from pretty much any windows boot floppy. Its called oakcdrom.sys or something similar.

@Techie30

It looks like you have an extra slash in your ISOLinux config:

root=/dev/ram/0

should be

root=/dev/ram0

I'd also like to note that the search funtion is a wonderful tool

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=39218

Cheers