AOSS Will Not Boot on HP Pavilion 710

[ianellison]

I downloaded and burnt the image and ran the scanner successfully on my own PC.
I then tried to run the AOSS on a friends PC who has a back door trojan he cannot eliminate using Norton in Windows XP. The BIOS was set to boot from the CD drive, but did not. A message 'Cannot find emulation' or very similar came up. The PC is about 5 years old and is running the original BIOS.
Any suggestions as to how to get the AOSS to boot very welcome. Thanks... Ian

[c_edge]

hi ianellison,

Each computer has its own bios set-up, the CD should be working fine as it worked with your pc. If the bios has been set to boot off the cd rom drive, try a test boot disk, to see if this reads.

[fireman sam]

To be even more technical the CD is a ISO 9660/El Torito CD-ROM in "no emulation" mode.

Therefore the CD will not boot on machines whos BIOS does not support no emulation mode booting.

[fireman sam]

And found a floppy disk image that can allow machines that do not support "no emulation mode" El Torito CD roms to boot.

The software is called "Smart BootManager". It is an open source project hosted on sourceforge.net (http://sourceforge.net/projects/btmgr). A precombiled disk image can be found at http://linux.simple.be/tools/sbm. The disk image is called bootmgr.dsk.

I've tested this image in VMware (I do not have any older machines) and it could boot AOSS from the boot menu.

To write the disk image in Windows, there is a utility called rawrite.exe. If you search the net for it, you should find instructions on how to write to image to a floppy.

I hope this helps some of you.

[fireman sam]

I've found a Windows installer to create a Smart Bootmanger floppy. It is at http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/3.7/sbminst.exe. To create a bootable floppy in drive A: use the following at the cmd.exe prompt:

sbminst.exe -d 0 -theme us

to get a list of available options run sbminst.exe without any options.