[Howto] Running BT4beta on the same usb key as BT3

[omarara]

I'm about to upgrade the post with picture by picture steps. I completed the steps as i made the screenshots so its guaranteed to work (thus fully tested). Will be posted once I get home

P.S. you don't have to use the bootinst.bat if BT3 was already installed on the key in question.

waiting your Pics

[thunderwing]

waiting your Pics

Up now, had to get back home from College. Its a long bus ride

[kenl92]

i also cant get this to work. (yes i did everything EXACTLY as you showed it pic by pic). Any ideas?

Here are the contents of my syslinux.cfg file ( i put them 4th and 5th so i could get to them quicker, and yes i tried at the end to)

PROMPT 0
TIMEOUT 40
DEFAULT /boot/vesamenu.c32

LABEL cubez
MENU LABEL BT3 Graphics mode (Compiz) - Experimental
KERNEL /boot/vmlinuz
APPEND vga=0x317 initrd=/boot/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=6666 root=/dev/ram0 rw chexpand=256 load=cubez autoexec=xconf;cubez;startx

LABEL cubez
MENU LABEL BT3 Graphics mode (Compiz Nvidia) - Experimental
KERNEL /boot/vmlinuz
APPEND vga=0x317 initrd=/boot/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=6666 root=/dev/ram0 rw chexpand=256 load=cubez,nvidiadriver autoexec=xconf;startnvidia.sh;startx


LABEL xconf1
MENU LABEL BT3 Graphics mode (KDE)
KERNEL /boot/vmlinuz
APPEND vga=0x317  initrd=/boot/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=6666 root=/dev/ram0 rw autoexec=xconf;kdm

LABEL BT4
MENU LABEL BT4 Beta - Console
KERNEL /boot/beta.vmlinuz
APPEND vga=0x317 initrd=/boot/beta.initrd.gz ramdisk_size=6666 root=/dev/ram0 rw quiet

LABEL BT4
MENU LABEL BT4 Beta - Console no FB
KERNEL /boot/beta.vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=/boot/beta.initrd.gz ramdisk_size=6666 root=/dev/ram0 rw quiet

LABEL xconf2
MENU LABEL BT3 Graphics mode (Flux)
KERNEL /boot/vmlinuz
APPEND vga=0x317  initrd=/boot/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=6666 root=/dev/ram0 rw autoexec=xconf;flux

LABEL startx
MENU LABEL BT3 Graphics mode (VESA KDE)
KERNEL /boot/vmlinuz
APPEND vga=0x317 initrd=/boot/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=6666 root=/dev/ram0 rw autoexec=kdm

LABEL BT3
MENU LABEL BT3 Text mode Frame Buffer
KERNEL /boot/vmlinuz
APPEND vga=0x317 initrd=/boot/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=6666 root=/dev/ram0 rw

LABEL BT3_no_DHCP
MENU LABEL Run BT3 no DHCP
KERNEL /boot/vmlinuz
APPEND vga=0x317 initrd=/boot/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=6666 root=/dev/ram0 rw nodhcp

LABEL BT3_no_HD
MENU LABEL Run BT3 no Hard Disk
KERNEL /boot/vmlinuz
APPEND vga=0x317 initrd=/boot/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=6666 root=/dev/ram0 rw nohd

LABEL BT3_Safe
MENU LABEL Run BT3 Safe Mode
KERNEL /boot/vmlinuz
APPEND vga=normal initrd=/boot/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=6666 
root=/dev/ram0 rw

LABEL pchanges
MENU LABEL BT3 Graphics mode with Persistent Changes
KERNEL /boot/vmlinuz
APPEND vga=0x317 initrd=/boot/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=6666 root=/dev/ram0 rw changes=/changes/slaxsave.dat autoexec=xconf;kdm

LABEL copy2ram
MENU LABEL BT3 Graphics mode, Copy To RAM
KERNEL /boot/vmlinuz
APPEND vga=0x317 initrd=/boot/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=6666 root=/dev/ram0 rw copy2ram autoexec=xconf;kdm

LABEL msramdmp
MENU LABEL msramdmp
 com32 /boot/msramdmp.c32

LABEL memtest86
MENU LABEL Run Memtest utility
KERNEL /boot/mt86p

[omarara]

The same here i did all these steps several times , i am using USB Hard Disk i dont think that the method will change !
i even see that when i try to rename vmlinuz to beta.vmlinuz windows change it's extension to *.vmlinuz i tried to change the name to betavmlinuz but it still didnt work

[thunderwing]

After you all complete the steps, are you seeing the bootmenu when you try to boot? If not, then i suggest you run the bootinst.bat. I'm finding it really hard to find the step i've missed, those pictures I posted are me doing it to my friends BT3 usbkey. I screenshotted every step I took, and when i was done, the key booted fine.

Theres obviously something missing, somehow, somewhere. This will launch me deeper into insanity.

[thunderwing]

The same here i did all these steps several times , i am using USB Hard Disk i dont think that the method will change !
i even see that when i try to rename vmlinuz to beta.vmlinuz windows change it's extension to *.vmlinuz i tried to change the name to betavmlinuz but it still didnt work

if you change the file name to betavmlinuz you have to also change it in the syslinux.cfg (just making sure, trying to cover all the bases)

edit: just realized i double posted, feeling kind of dumb

[kenl92]

Yes i get to the boot menu with all the options of what to boot into, but when i click on one of the BT4 ones, it just reloads the boot menu, and starts the auto timer unless you hit a key.

[omarara]

After you all complete the steps, are you seeing the bootmenu when you try to boot? If not, then i suggest you run the bootinst.bat. I'm finding it really hard to find the step i've missed, those pictures I posted are me doing it to my friends BT3 usbkey. I screenshotted every step I took, and when i was done, the key booted fine.

Theres obviously something missing, somehow, somewhere. This will launch me deeper into insanity.

Look , sure we can see the boot menu this is not our problem cause we changed the *.cfg file .our problem is when we choose BT4 option from boot menu it just do nothing the boot menu stand still nothing happens
is there anyone could help !

[kenl92]

if you change the file name to betavmlinuz you have to also change it in the syslinux.cfg (just making sure, trying to cover all the bases)

edit: just realized i double posted, feeling kind of dumb

i also tried changing the name of the file and in the syslinux file that didnt work either

edit: just realized i double posted, feeling kind of dumb

Dont worry about it, and thanks sooooo much for tring to help us out!

[omarara]

i also tried to copy all folders or files from BT4's boot folder which is not included in BT3' Boot folder , but it is a dead end