Parted magic grub4dos iso

More info on GFXmenu can be found here. This is how to change it and have your own picture:. The colours are specified in hexadecimal and are in three groups of two hexadecimal numbers — 0xrrggbb — 0x means that we are specifying a hex number, then we have rrggbb the first two numbers specify the red brightness, the second the green brightness and the third the blue brightness. Hexadecimal numbers can thus range from 00 which means 0 in decimal and thus off to ff which means in decimal and thus maximum brightness — here are some colours and their hexadecimal equivalents:.

Tip: You may have noticed that any error will make grub4dos go back to its default menu list when using a GFXMenu. Use the following lines at the top of the menu. Alternatively, omit the title line but not the other 4 lines of text and the grub4dos text-based menu will never be displayed — it will always load the GFXMenu, even after an error.

Now you can try some of the other tutorials on this website and add an extra menu entry into your menu. Just pick any tutorial that takes your fancy and add the menu entries into your existing menu. See the reference section at the top of this page. Note that some of these options are not available when using the GFXMenu menu system — i.

I suggest that once you have your GFXMenu background working, you comment out the line for it in your menu. The instructions above should allow you to make a nice user menu, but what do the commands in the menu.

Lets look at what we have, now that you have added Ylmf to the USB drive:. What do these commands mean? The first line in each section begins with title xxxxx, and is fairly obvious! It is the text that is presented to the user as a menu item. The second line in all these examples is a find —set-root command.

Note that this command can cause problems if you happen to have the file it is looking for on both your hard disk and your USB pen. It is often better to create a file with a unique name e. When grub4dos finds the file, it sets the current search path to that path — for instance if you had. Possible devices are u,p,n,h,f,c. If no floppy drive or cd drive is present, then using the —devices switch to force grub4dos to search those devices may cause long timeouts of several minutes!

See the bottom of this page for how to avoid this. The next line is a map command. BIOS devices are numbered where are floppy disks fd0-fd3,0xx9F are hd0-hd31, cd0 is 0xA0, etc. Here are the grub4dos device references and numbers:. A detailed explanation of these map ped virtual device names and lots more can be found here. The map command takes effect when grub4dos comes to the end of a menu entry or executes the boot command.

It will also take effect immediately within grub4dos if a map —hook command is executed. It is important to understand how grub4dos maps your image. If this code tries to access a floppy disk drive, it will be accessing your image file instead. So you can map a 1. However, if you try to map memtest. Similarly, if you try to map a binary program instead of a floppy disk image as fd0 it will fail to load. The map command will cause the file specified or device to be treated as a virtual device — any access to the device will cause a block seek to the correct place in the file — for this reason the file must be contiguous i.

The best way to fix this is run WinContig. Another way to get around this, is to use the map —mem command — If you use this command the ISO file does not need to be contiguous but the whole ISO will be loaded into memory by grub4dos which will be much slower and also requires the system to have more memory.

For instance, the line. Note that if you map an ISO file or any file and the media is writable, it is possible to modify the contents of the ISO file, for instance. If you then run the same line again then it will produce. Using ;; in a line is the equivalent of splitting the line into separate command lines, i. The grub4dos map command also supports. Only works if cd device is present. If they do not boot correctly e. Here is the menu. Next line checks to see if we booted as a hard disk 80 and if so maps the boot device as a floppy disk.

Note that this also maps your internal hard disk hd1 to hd0 and so when it boots from the new floppy device fd0 , DOS will see only one hard disk your internal hard disk and one floppy disk your USB drive. The next line is map —hook.

This is where any previous map commands actually become activated and hooked into the BIOS. The map —hook command changes the BIOS interrupt pointers so that an access to the virtual device will actually access the file or device specified by the map device commands. If no map —hook command is specified in the menu, it will be automatically executed when grub4dos boots, so there is no need to use map —hook unless you need to access the mapped device first.

When setting a directory path, you must always include a device in the full path when using the root command e. It is good practice to always use root before you use chainloader , because root can establish some parameters when the device is mounted which is then used by the chainloader command.

If root fails then use rootnoverify instead, e. The kernel command is an instruction to load a linux kernel which expects to be loaded into memory in a certain way; also we can pass parameters and values to the kernel by using a command line type syntax on the same menu line which will get passed to the linux kernel.

The kernel and initrd commands should always be the last two commands. If you wish to suppress the loading messages produced by kernel and initrd then precede the kernel and initrd lines with. The final line in the Ylmf menu is initrd , this is an initial ramdrive which is a temporary filesystem used in the boot process of the linux kernel — initrd and initramfs are both commonly used to make preparations before the real root filesystem can be mounted.

In this case it is set to the first partition of the virtual floppy disk drive which is the memtest As the memtest As we have mapped the whole file as a virtual floppy disk, when that boot sector code executes, it will try to access floppy disk sectors, but grub4dos has just mapped the floppy disk to the memtest Add —force if grub4dos gives an error due to a bad signature or incorrect format.

In this example, this line is actually not needed and the USB drive will boot to memtest without this line. Using root fd0 would fail though Error cannot mount selected partition. When grub4dos finishes a sequence of commands in a menu. To check if a file is contiguous from within grub4dos, use the blocklist command.

In the grub4dos menu, type C to get to the grub4dos command prompt and then use the blocklist command as shown below:. With grub4dos, you can have multiple menus. The menu shown below will allow the user to load one of three sub-menus. TAG which you should place on the grub4dos boot drive. TAG anywhere, then it looks for menu. System memory locations can be read and obtained as a grub4dos variable like this:.

The value obtained and placed in the variable m will be a bit 8 byte value. Often you may wish to read the value of a single byte, word or dword 4 bytes , you can do this as follows. The md memory drive is directly mapped to system memory also. Note : The physical memory address range from 1M to 32M is reserved for grub4dos internal code and data. The default drive number for rd is 0x7F which is a floppy device. Note that the ram drive base address will be set to the top of available memory by the map command regardless of what rd-base has been set.

In and later versions of grub4dos, you can precede dd with the raw command which will prevent auto-decompression. Normally rd-size is set to 0x 4GB by grub4dos. You do not need to change rd-size it in normal use. If you do change it, set it back to 0x afterwards. Recent versions of grub4dos see near end of the grub4dos readme file for more details also have the ability to set and use variables.

Variable names can be a maximum of 8 characters. If a 9-character name is used it will be shortened to 8 characters, e. Note:This example only works if you are using a version of grub4dos that treats ;; as a comment delimiter. Note : The version of grldr treats ;; the same as if there was a carriage return in the menu.

The debug off stops the result of the set calculation from being displayed on the screen. You could instead redirect to nul — e. Later versions of grub4dos have enhanced cat parameters which allow you to replace strings. Use doublequotes if you need a space or tab character, e. Strings can be enclosed in double-quotes if they contain spaces, e. Note: If md 0x contains a compressed file e. Note: If using cat —hex, it may not always work if the first few bytes appear to resemble a compressed file header to grub4dos.

In this case cat —hex will not output anything at all in pre-September versions of grub4dos!!! The boot sector is not accessible when viewing the CD in a file manager such as Windows Explorer and might appear to be a blank disk if no files are contained on the disc root.

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The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". It does not store any personal data. Functional Functional. Peter Doesn't work for me on UFD CD not tested - it may depend on the system used, the previous version had problems with the vmalloc setting - one setting worked for some but not for others.

Posted 01 April - PM Doesn't work for me on UFD CD not tested - it may depend on the system used, the previous version had problems with the vmalloc setting - one setting worked for some but not for others. Posted 01 April - PM sorry, I mean previous versions of pmagic. Did you read the thread I linked to? Yes, I did. But I did not find a logical relation to the actual issue. Maybe it depends on my low Grub4Dos knowledge.

I tried older pmagic versions: title pmagic Maybe it depends on my hardware. Also the name of the iso must not be changed. I then added the iso file named pmagic So I tried with no pmagic iso's at all except the single one which I renamed as follows So it is definitely path and name dependent!

Posted 01 April - PM Linux can only work with information passed on the kernel command-line, through an initramfs, or hard-coded in startup scripts. Looking for the SquashFS is post-kernel. Pre-kernel drives do not persist into post-kernel time. Good luck! Don't subscribe All Replies to my comments Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. You can also subscribe without commenting.

Parted Magic should now appear in the menu and boot. There is no boot menu in the PXE version, the version is automatically chosen. After I used the AIO to integrate parted-magic into my pan-driver, I selected memtest in the parted magic menu, it can not be used. In the legacy mode, there is only x86 version of memtest.