Re: DVD as El Torito boot media

From: GregG (dummy_at_nospam.com)
Date: 09/16/04 

Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 21:08:27 -0700

Slobodan,

I enjoy reading your responses to others as they are usually very
direct to the point solutions. But must admit I'm baffled by what
you're saying and what I see with Nero 6.

The reason for an alternative to HD2ISO is I want a 2GB boot
partition. Failing that, starting with the ISO from HD2ISO may work
if I can add a 2GB "CD" partition. However, since EWF will see it as
removable, it will have to be read-only.

Wrt the following, if I use my post-ETPREP 625MB disk partition with
HD2ISO and use Nero to simply burn, I end up reliably with bootable
CD's. Not big enough, no 2nd partition, but bootable.

Starting a new bootable CD in Nero 6, I must first either choose a
disk (or floppy) partition or disk image (*.IMA) to use for the
bootable partition. Also I can default to harddrive emultation (or
select no emulation for Linux, etc. file structures.) Afterwards
files & folders can be added to form the second "CD" partition.

Selecting my hard drive (post-ETPREP) results in a CD that fails when
XP/e attempts to write to the registry (EWF fails or doesn't start).
I don't have a method to extract the boot disk image from a HD2ISO so
can't use the disk image option.

Alternatively, if I select to burn an image, I can select the ISO from
HD2ISO but leave if open. Then a second session could be added to
create the second partition. But as was Anthony's experience, that
also fails during boot.

So I'm still looking for an alternative to HD2ISO or a modified HD2ISO
or some way to use Nero (or a competitor) and end up with an image
that's XP/e bootable.

thanks for your attention to my long reply,
GregG

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 12:43:07 +0200, "Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)"
<sbrcin@ptt.yu> wrote:

>Any reason why you don't want to use hd2iso. (Please be aware only that is can work with first partition on disk only)
>
>With hd2iso.exe you will get El-torito ISO file.
>With Nero or some other burning utility you select CD boot project.
>Set ISO file to be placed at the beginning of the disk, and don't use advanced emulation options.
>In next step select files that you want to be recorder on disk.
>Burn it and you will have "two partitions".
>
>Best regards,
>Slobodan

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