1 Topic by clsmith

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Topic: Lost my menu.lst entry for GParted Live.

Hello;

I had a Multiboot USB drive which I used as a recovery tool.  Sadly a co-worker formatted said drive and I've lost my Grub4DOS menu.lst that was booting the GParted Live ISO directly.  I've mostly re-created the entry but have run into an issue.  GParted starts to boot but get's stuck at "Probing EDD (edd=off to disable)".

I remember running into this issue before and I believe I solved it with a live-media-path= parameter.  Problem is I can't remember what the path should be set to.   sad

I'm using gparted-live-0.10.0-3.iso (renamed to gparted-live.iso) kept in the /ISO dir on the USB drive.

menu.lst:

title GParted Live ToRAM
find --set-root --ignore-floppies /ISO/gparted-live.iso
map --heads=0 --sectors-per-track=0 /ISO/gparted-live.iso (0xff) || map --mem --heads=0 --sectors-per-track=0 /ISO/gparted-live.iso (0xff)
map --hook
root (0xff)
kernel /live/vmlinuz boot=live config union=aufs noswap noprompt vga=791 findiso=/ISO/gparted-live.iso toram=filesystem.squashfs keyb="us" gl_kbd="us" gl_lang="en_US" gl_batch
initrd /live/initrd.img

Appending edd=off to the kernel line DOES allow me to boot but I know I had this working without disabling the check.

I've tried a few 'live-media-path=' paths but can't seem to get past the EDD check.  Is there something obvious that I'm missing?

Any help is appreciated.

2 Reply by stevenshiau

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Re: Lost my menu.lst entry for GParted Live.

You can refer to the  file /syslinux/syslinux.cfg in the iso. For the boot parameters, it looks like:
initrd=/live/initrd.img boot=live config  noswap noprompt  ip=frommedia nosplash

As for grub2 or grub1 conf, you can check this:
http://gparted.org/livehd.php

Steven.

3 Reply by cmdr

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Re: Lost my menu.lst entry for GParted Live.

Hello clsmith,

your Grub4DOS "menu.lst" entry seems to be correct. You only need "live-media-path" parameter for locating file "filesystem.squashfs" in a folder other than the default "live". If you did not modify the ISO file, it surely is there at the right place, when you "map" it with Grub4DOS resp. when GParted "findiso"-mounts it later in the boot process. If  "edd=off" now works, you might perhaps have changed the structure of your USB drive accidentally, when trying to get back the former functionality (Master Boot Record, partitioning, partition sizes, filesystem, absolute file location on a big volume ?). "edd=off" disables BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive calls.

Regards
cmdr