Monday, 27 May 2013

Beta30 v5 now available - full release soon - please try this version!

Only minor changes in this version:

  • XP Step 1 install now loads the ISO into memory - this may prevent BSOD on some systems.
  • Updated grub4dos version
  • Updated some readme and help htm files.
  • Added E2B stamp to the background.

Please let me know of anything that is wrong or could be improved in this version. I will release it as the official full release after 1 week of no bug reports or changes.

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28 comments:

  1. Weidass29 May 2013 at 00:02:00 BST

    Regarding xp, what if my xp iso is larger than the system ram?

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  2. Steve Si29 May 2013 at 09:46:00 BST

    If XP is larger then system ram it will map it without loading it into ram for step 1 automatically. For Step 2 you will need to use the second Step 2 for Low Ram option.
    If it is not loaded into ram it may not work on some systems, which is why I try to load it into ram first.
    Also, an alternative is to use the Install XP using WinPE option. This should work on systems with 256MB of ram or more.

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  3. ABC30 May 2013 at 11:19:00 BST

    I'm install Windows 8 Pro ISO error with autounattend.xml. I'm use build 28v2 is OK

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  4. Alan30 May 2013 at 16:32:00 BST

    Can you please check the capitalization of your files to make sure that they match what's in the config files? That way your code could work on a USB stick that's formatted ext2/ext3 (or any other CaSe SeNsItIvE file system).

    Two examples I found in 10 minutes of debugging (I don't have it working yet):

    - Directory named _ISO/e2b is referenced in /menu.lst as _ISO/E2B

    - _ISO/e2b/grub/MENU.LST is referenced as menu.lst in /menu.lst

    Thanks, and I am looking forward to what appears to be a very useful utility!

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  5. Steve Si30 May 2013 at 17:27:00 BST

    Hi Alan
    E2B has not been tested on ext2/ext3 filesystems and nowhere do I say it is supported (I am a Windows-type guy!). I will go through it all to check but I didn't realise grub4dos was case sensitive on ext2/3 - only linux???

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  6. Alan30 May 2013 at 18:20:00 BST

    Understood that it's not supported now. I was hopeful that you might be willing to make it work for those of us who don't use Windows in our everyday life, since the tool is so useful.

    I don't think that grub4dos is case-sensitve - I think it's because the underlying file system (ext2/ext3/ext4) is - on those filesystems you can have a menu.lst and a MENU.LST and they'll be 2 different files.

    BTW, with the 2 changes mentioned above, I was able to get the main menu up, but Easy2Boot didn't automatically build the menu of options from files in the MAINMENU subdirectory.

    I can understand if you don't want to try to support under Linux filesystems, but I can tell you that it'd gain you some more fans... ;-)

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  7. Steve Si30 May 2013 at 19:08:00 BST

    Hi Alan
    I almost have it working but there is a bug in grub4dos!

    This is what I did to test it.
    1. Install Ext2Fsd on my Win7 64-bit system
    2. Format USB flash drive as ext2 using Easeus Home Partition Mgr
    3. Install Wee
    4. Add E2B files

    I then fixed some 'case' issues until I got a nice populated menu. The problem is it was too populated!

    grub4dos seems to have a bug!
    ls /mydir/ on an empty folder returns 'True' whereas on a FAT or NTFS volume it does not. So all the empty folders (e.g. AUTO, ANTIVIRUS, ect.) are listed in the main menu too!

    I have reported the bug and will carry on testing to check that everything else is working and then upload a new version...




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  8. Steve Si30 May 2013 at 19:18:00 BST

    P.S. Of course, you realise Windows installs won't work...

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  9. Steve Si30 May 2013 at 19:41:00 BST

    Hi Alan
    please try BETA30 v6 (bottom of Tutorial 72a page).
    Best to reformat in case of any case issues as I have changed the case of a few files as well as changing the text in some files!

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  10. Reece Darragh1 June 2013 at 17:56:00 BST

    I am having an issue with Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8. Whenever I select the ISO I want and the .xml file I get an if not exist CD dd if=(bd)/_ISO/e2b/firadisk/spaces.txt of=()/AutoUnattend.xml >nul Error 16: Inconsistent Filesystem Structure

    I use a 32GB Lexar Jumpdrive with NTFS formatting and boot as HDD enabled. I am using version Beta30 v6. I tested it with Windows XP and it works great so I don't know what the problem is.

    Thanks for this tool it is awesome!

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  11. Steve Si1 June 2013 at 18:38:00 BST

    is this on a real system?

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  12. Reece Darragh1 June 2013 at 19:12:00 BST

    Yes it is. The machine is an hp desktop from 2005. I will see if I can test it on a Toshiba laptop

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  13. Reece Darragh1 June 2013 at 19:19:00 BST

    Yep same error with Toshiba laptop

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  14. Reece Darragh1 June 2013 at 19:48:00 BST

    It is actually so annoying. I think it might be something to do with the .xml files I am using. I might have made an error somewhere. Can you possibly make me one for having no keys for windows vista, 7 and 8 as they are all in one isos

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  15. Steve Si1 June 2013 at 19:59:00 BST

    Vista and 7 don't require a user xml, but there must be an AutoUnattend.xml in the root of the flash drive as it has a special command which causes the ISO to be loaded as a virtual CD before Windows Setup runs.
    I just tried a fresh USB stick and it works fine for me using Win7 and choosing 0 = Use E2B XML file.
    Can you
    1. Boot to E2B
    2. Press P and enter the password of 'easy2boot'
    3. Press C to get to command console
    4. type three lines...
    ls (bd)/_ISO/e2b/firadisk/spaces.txt
    ls ()/AutoUnattend.xml
    dd if=(bd)/_ISO/e2b/firadisk/spaces.txt of=()/AutoUnattend.xml

    and see what happens

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  16. Reece Darragh1 June 2013 at 20:12:00 BST

    That did the trick. Thanks so much.

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  17. Steve Si1 June 2013 at 20:13:00 BST

    What did the trick???

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  18. Reece Darragh1 June 2013 at 20:17:00 BST

    The commands that you had me put in!

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  19. Reece Darragh1 June 2013 at 20:22:00 BST

    I also worked out that plop bootloader does not like booting windows very much using easytoboot

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  20. Steve Si1 June 2013 at 20:24:00 BST

    Those commands were diagnostics - they shouldn't have fixed anything...?

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  21. Reece Darargh1 June 2013 at 20:27:00 BST

    must have been me using plop then oops

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  22. Steve Si1 June 2013 at 21:23:00 BST

    The plop USB driver is read-only - it does not support writes!

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  23. Reece Darragh1 June 2013 at 21:59:00 BST

    That is so annoying. What do I do if the computer doesn't have USB BIOS Support. :(

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  24. ameyerpro2 June 2013 at 13:36:00 BST

    For step 1, can you leave the choice to not load the ISO into memory?

    It is very slow for me!

    I'm back to the old version : Easy2Bootv1 BETA29v7

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  25. Steve Si2 June 2013 at 16:12:00 BST

    OK - please try BETA30v7!

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  26. ameyerpro3 June 2013 at 18:12:00 BST

    The new version works very well for me.
    Thank you very much.

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  27. rashaka11 August 2013 at 01:56:00 BST

    buf_size=0x10000, loops=0x2. in_pos=0x0, out_pos=0x0
    00000000
    Bytes read / written = 0x10000 / 0x0

    Error 16: Inconsistent filesystem structure

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    1. Steve Si12 August 2013 at 00:28:00 BST

      Need more details. Are you booting directly from USB on a real system? What menu entry are you running? etc.

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