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#1 erwan.l

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Posted 21 February 2021 - 02:23 PM

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wimboot is a boot loader for Windows Imaging Format (.wim) files.
It enables you to boot into a Windows PE (WinPE) deployment or recovery environment.
You can use wimboot with iPXE to boot Windows PE via HTTP.
With a Gigabit Ethernet network, a typical WinPE image should download in just a few seconds.

Changelog:

  • Extract BCD, boot.sdi, and standard boot font files automatically from the .wim image.

  • Use paging and Physical Address Extensions (PAE) to place the initrd above 4GB if possible, thereby allowing larger .wim images to be used on BIOS systems (sponsored by Digital Intelligence).

  • Enable stack protection for both BIOS and UEFI builds.

  • Tidy up debug output that typically disrupts the loading screen progress bar.

  • Add quiet command-line option to inhibit all debug output (sponsored by 2Pint Software).

  • Create fully automated tests of an HTTP boot via iPXE and wimboot into multiple versions of Windows.

  • Migrate from Travis CI to GitHub actions.

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#2 antonino61

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Posted 21 February 2021 - 07:19 PM

is it only for winpe's?



#3 erwan.l

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Posted 22 February 2021 - 08:06 PM

is it only for winpe's?

 

Yes it is.

Probably the best solution to quickly load a winpe.


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#4 Tokener

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Posted 23 February 2021 - 07:37 PM

Dear Erwan

Thank you very much for continuing to work on the program. :thumbsup:

 

wimboot 2.6.0 was able to boot WinPE from grub4dos-0.4.6a-2017-05-15 menu.lst

In this case MistyPE(Win10)

 

iftitle [find /MistyPE5_x64/210223185908] - MistyPE5_x64 \n 210223185908 - wimboot - Index:1
find --set-root /MistyPE5_x64/210223185908
kernel /wimboot index=1
initrd @bcd=/MistyPE5_x64/boot/bcd @boot.sdi=/MistyPE5_x64/boot/boot.sdi @bootmgr=/MistyPE5_x64/BOOTMGR @boot.wim=/MistyPE5_x64/SOURCES/boot.wim
 

Unfortunately this doesn't work with later versions of G4D.

On the other hand: grub4dos-0.4.6a-2017-05-15 cannot handle wimboot 2.7.1.

Is it an issue of wimboot or GRUB4DOS?

Here are two films to provide further information. 

Attached File  GRUBTEMP.7z   744.07KB   234 downloads

 

I remembered Wonko's commandment: "Thou shalt always try commandline first",

and found in this case: Running commandline ends up the same way.

Attached File  10x64 UEFI wimboot 2.7.1-2021-02-23T19-13-57-490044400Z.webm.7z   7.64MB   248 downloads

 

The filename in the WEBMs might be misleading: UEFI was disabled in all boot ops.

 

Best regards   T.



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Posted 23 February 2021 - 08:10 PM

I wish I could take any credits for wimboot but far (very far) from it.

The ipxe team is a great dev team with absolute hard core skills : all credits goes to them.

 

At very best can I take very little credits for Tiny PXE Server using wimboot (amongst other credit open source softwares).

 

Note that wimboot 2.7.2 is out today but i dont believe it will solve your issues.

 

I remember a thread on reboot.pro where we found out that you needed an older version of wimboot to use some functions.

2.5.2 (out of memory) was the one version giving good results if I am correct.

 

Cheers,

Erwan


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#6 Biatu

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Posted 05 November 2021 - 10:03 PM

@erwan.l, is there a way that we can implement LZMS decompression for winpe? As in, an LZMS decompressor be ported to wimboot, and a filter driver for WinPE to access.

Thanks, Biatu






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