Live CD offers choice of booting to XP on the HD (solved)

[VariEze]

I know this sounds silly, since the obvious solution is to just leave the CD out, and let it boot to Windows XP on the Hard drive, but If I can figure out a way to leave the CD in all the time, life would be easier when flip-flopping back and forth.

I know I can use IsoMaster to edit the Isolinux.cfg, and re-burn it, but is there a few lines that can be added to give the choice of opting out of the live CD boot, and going back to Windows, without pulling the cd and restarting?

I'm suspecting that it's not so simple, but maybe somebody has done it.

--Karl

[Béèm]

It's simple on my machine, may be on yours as well.
When I boot/reboot the PC, an IBM Thinkpad R40, I have a button I have to push to stop the boot process.
I can then choose the device to boot from.
I select the CD and Puppy loads.
If I don't push that button, XP loads.

Do you have such a feature?

[VariEze]

One machine has a "boot menu" option brought up by the bios, you hit f12 to get choices, but you've got to be super quick to catch it, there's only a 1 second time-out. I looked at the bios setup, and there is no way to change that. It'd be perfect otherwise.

--Karl

[willhunt]

# hd
label 0
localboot 0x80
you might try this in isolinux.cfg

[VariEze]

i added the suggested code to the isolinux.cfg, and burned a new cd, it didn't change anything. I'll try adding those to the beginning instead of the end later.
--Karl

[VariEze]

That dog Willhunt! right on, that works!

I looked here: http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/#multimemdisk and learned more.

I made my isolinux.cfg look like this:

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default 0
display boot.msg
prompt 1
#hard drive boot
label 0
localboot 0x80
#puppy linux boot
label 1
kernel vmlinuz
append root=/dev/ram0 initrd=initrd.gz pmedia=cd
timeout 20000

and the boot.msg:

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0b
Puppy Linux 2.16
0a
0 is windows
1 is puppy
07

There are some unprintable chars in the boot.msg, but just editing the text worked. (I think they are for color and formatting) I replaced these files in the ISO, and burned, now I have Choices. THANKS.

--Karl