Bart's El-Torito CD-Rom Boot Disk

Uses eltorito.sys, the hardware independent Dos CD-Rom driver (can only be used on bootable CD-Rom's)

Version 1.0
Created on Apr 16, 2002
Last updated on Jul 9, 2002

Important notice: the development and maintenance for this page has stopped. Please don't contact me about this page! I'm leaving the page as it is, for reference...

Notice!
The CD-Rom boot disk now also supports eltorito.sys! You should consider using that instead of elboot!

Introduction - Create the boot disk - Revision history

 Introduction

The elboot boot disk is unique, it uses a special Dos CD-Rom driver (eltorito.sys) that will work on all CD-Rom drives out there, regardless the interface. The only catch is that you must boot from that drive, using a bootable CD-Rom.

See also: the eltorito.sys page (not finished yet).
Note: This bootdisk requires isolinux and memdisk.

 Create the boot disk

The steps are:

1. Follow the instructions in the MODBOOT page to create the basic MODBOOT diskette.
   
   
2. Download and copy the following files (don't unpack them) into the correct location on the floppy disk.
   
   The following files are required (you must copy these...):
   
   

   File	Description	Copy to...	Ver	Updated
   elboot.cab (3KB)	CD-Rom loader module	\level3	1.2	Jun 27, 2002
   	v1.1: Now using a new version of eltorito.sys (v1.2) v1.2: New version of eltorito.sys (v1.3)
   mscdex.cab (14KB)	Microsoft CD-Rom Extensions	\lib	1.0	Mar 26, 2001
   utils.cab (34KB)	Batch utilities	\level0	1.8	Aug 29, 2002
   	v1.7: lmod.com updated to v1.2. v1.8: pciscan.exe updated to v1.5a.

   
   
3. Optional you can add some of these (cdautrun.cab is recommended):
   
   

   File	Description	Copy to...	Ver	Updated
   cdautrun.cab (2KB)	CD-Rom autorun module	\lib	1.1	Mar 26, 2002
   	Set's %cddrv% environment variable to point to the first CD-Rom. Also runs \autorun.bat when it is on any CD-Rom.
   - none -	Dos module (fdisk, format, xcopy...)	\level1	1.0	Mar 26, 2002
   	There is no file for download, you have to build this one yourself, just look here: More info!
   help.cab (1KB)	Help module	\level1	1.0	Mar 26, 2002
   mouse.cab (5KB)	Mouse support	\level1	1.1	Mar 26, 2002

   
   
4. You can create a short text file that holds a description for your bootdisk in "\diskid.txt".
   

Done!

 Revision history

• Apr 16, 2002 - v1.0

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