Thursday, September 4, 2008

Dual Booting On USB Flash Disk (2 operating system on UFD?)

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Base on recent tutorials about Slax and BartPE......How to gather them in one UFD?

lets start...
1. First, make your USB Flash Disk bootable with BartPE loaded on it. as in recent tutorial "BartPE on USB Flas Disk"
2. Then, make your USB Flash Disk bootable with Slax Linux loaded on it. as in recent tutorial "Operating System SLAX LINUX on USB Flash Disk (UFD)"
3. After step 1 and step 2 applied, then You should do some following actions:
- edit slax.cfg.....something like this...



PROMPT 0
TIMEOUT 90
DEFAULT /boot/vesamenu.c32
MENU BACKGROUND /boot/slax.png

MENU WIDTH 36
MENU MARGIN 0
MENU ROWS 7
MENU HELPMSGROW 14
MENU TIMEOUTROW 22
MENU TABMSGROW 24
MENU CMDLINEROW 24
MENU HSHIFT 40
MENU VSHIFT 2

menu color screen 37;40 #00000000 #00000000 none
menu color border 30;44 #00000000 #00000000 none
menu color title 1;36;44 #00000000 #00000000 none
menu color unsel 37;44 #ff60CA00 #00000000 none
menu color hotkey 1;37;44 #ff60CA00 #00000000 none
menu color sel 7;37;40 #ffffffff #ff60CA00 none
menu color hotsel 1;7;37;40 #ff808080 #ff60CA00 none
menu color scrollbar 30;44 #00000000 #00000000 none

menu color tabmsg 31;40 #aaaaaaaa #00000000 none
menu color cmdmark 1;36;40 #ffff0000 #00000000 none
menu color cmdline 37;40 #aaaaaaaa #00000000 none
menu color pwdborder 30;47 #ffff0000 #00000000 std
menu color pwdheader 31;47 #ffff0000 #00000000 std
menu color pwdentry 30;47 #ffff0000 #00000000 std
menu color timeout_msg 37;40 #aaaaaaaa #00000000 none
menu color timeout 1;37;40 #ffaaaaff #00000000 none
menu color help 37;40 #aaaaaa00 #00000000 none
menu color msg07 37;40 #90ffffff #00000000 std


LABEL xconf
MENU LABEL Slax Graphics mode (KDE)
KERNEL /boot/vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=/boot/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=6666 root=/dev/ram0 rw autoexec=xconf;telinit~4 changes=/slax/
TEXT HELP
More about currently selected:

Run Slax the best way we can.
Try to autoconfigure graphics
card and use the maximum
allowed resolution
ENDTEXT

LABEL bartpe
MENU LABEL Bart's PE
KERNEL /pe2usb.bss

- Copy pe2usb.bin from the root of your PEBuilder installation directory to the root of your UFD, then rename it to pe2usb.bss
- Finish, reboot, enjoy.......

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