Ghost Solution Suite

Hi all,
Currently I am playing with ghost and I am having trouble with creating a Network boot package ISO image.  When I boot off of the image that I have created I get a message "Boot Failure."  I have tryed makeing the ISO file with PC-DOS or MS-DOS versions.  I can push an image using the agent or pxe boot.  But I would like to give my techs a cd that they can boot off of sometime.

PS  The only way I could get the pxe image to work was to make a network boot package ISO image and extract the OSBOOT.img and config the pxe server to that file.

Any help would be awsome.  Thanks guys

-David
 

Triple Ace

thanks for the reply

I have burned the ISO image using ImgBurn.  I have also use the ISO with VMware/Virtual PC.  I have tried it on 3 physical machines and many Virtual boxes.  I have also tried to recreate the image many times. 

-Dave

Hi Guys,

Am using Ghost Solution Suite 2.0 and dont have the PE option available.  The images created with Ghost Boot Wizard and burned using Nero consistenly fail with the OPs error "Boot Failure". 

Would like to attempt an MSDOS boot CD but have tried pointing it at the files I assumed it was looking for (it is particularly unhelpful as is the help file) but no joy.  If anyone can tell me what files it needs and where they can normally be found you would be saving my life as I have a load of images to take before the end of next week and no way of taking them.

Either that or explain how to get a working PCDOS boot CD made?

Thanks again!

I started out by creating an MSDOS boot floppy with the necessary drivers to allow a CD or DVD to be read in a standard optical drive.
Using WinImage, I then created an IMA image file of the Boot floppy and use this with Nero 6 as the boot image when creating a bootable CD or DVD.
The actual image file and any other files such as the Ghost executable are then added to the main CD/DVD area.

The CD then boots to A: but the main content of the CD is visible typically on the E: or F: drive

This has worked very reliably for me over the past few years, but now with the advent of SATA optical drives, the usual DOS drivers no longer work, and I have moved to a bootable solution based on WinPE - which you can download free from Microsoft and use as per my article "Adventures with WinPE"  This allows you to make WinPE bootable optical media, as well as USB keys and USB hard disks.

Haha you legend I'll give it a look.