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[tumor]

I have a multiboot (XP and LiveXP) project, that boots with BCDW. I would like to use CDShell, due to its more graphical nature. The problem i have, is cdshell has a folder named boot, and livexp (created with UXP) has a file called boot. Any suggestions on a way around this, or maybe a different graphical boot option i havent found yet?
thanks in advance....

[Brito]

"boot" is a tag reference that you find inside the txtsetup.sif from LiveXP.

After creating a liveXP - find it's txtsetup.sif and look for this reference - you can change to whatever else you prefer.

BCDW is good because it allows to use several XP PE boot disks without need for hex edits for I wouldn't mind adding support for other boot managers if you show me how they work.

[tumor]

thanx nuno, i'll give that a shot and let you know....

[MedEvil]

BCDW is good because it allows to use several XP PE boot disks without need for hex edits

How does it do that? Does it load the boot discs as images?

[was_jaclaz]

How does it do that? Does it load the boot discs as images?

If I remember correctly it patches setupldr.bin on the fly, while loading them in memory.
May fail with recent ones with checksum.

Ah, yes, here it is:
http://www.msfn.org/...-20-t31844.html

jaclaz

[Brito]

I don't know how it works for sure - it might very well be exactly as jaclaz mentions.

One other option would be that bcdw contains another exe file that interfaces directly with windows NT API (not win32 API) and intercepts all requests to files on the I386 folder running as a sort of driver.

http://en.wikipedia....wiki/Native_API
http://66.102.9.104/...h...t=clnk&cd=1

[tumor]

got it running with cdshell. had to create the .dat files, hex the myxp.dat and setupldr.bin in myxp, and change a few call references. looks much better now....
thanks for the help with the boot file...