Symantec Ghost v11 USB Boot Error

[swordphsh]

Hi all,
I'm using a Symantec Ghost v11 USB-bootable flash drive to load PC-DOS and Ghost v11 with network drivers. The device works fine on computers that can boot USB natively, but when used in conjunction with the PLoP boot manager, I receive the error "Error closing file." This error occurs just after the program loads the network drivers.

Thanks in advance.

[Elmar]

hi,
maybe ghost is trying to write something to the usb device, but the boot manager does not allow writing to the usb device.

i don't have ghost to test/check this.

regards
elmar

[swordphsh]

Actually, it does. I did not think of that. Is it possible to enable write support on the usb device?

[Elmar]

its possible to load another usb driver from dos to enable usb writing. but you have to work with a ram disk and disable the plop usb driver before you load the other usb driver.

or you copy the ghost program to the ram disk and start it from there

[swordphsh]

Could you help me out on how I might accomplish that?
The Ghost usb drive works like this:
It scans for which network adapter is present, then writes to a file on the drive in order to load the correct drive later in the process. It then loads pc-dos and the proper network driver, followed by Ghost, itself.

[Elmar]

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Device=c:\dos\ramdrive.sys 32767 /E 


this creates a 32mb ramdisk using the extended ram (himem.sys)
change your scripts that you make all write operations on the ramdisk.