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[triplexxx]

@Wonko the Sane: Thank again you for you feedback!

I solved my challenge with your help booting one DOS, one WIN PE (based on ntldr), one WIN PE (based on bootmgr) and one Linux-Distribution from an UFD with bootmgr ...

My next challenge is to boot more than one (same) os from the UFD using bootmgr (e.g. two different DOS versions, two different ntldr-based WIN PE or two different Linux-Distributions). I think, that it is NOT possible with DOS, ntldr-based WIN PE and Linux-Distributions, because they all use similar files in the root of the UFD. But I think, that it must be possible with bootmgr-based WIN PEs. mmh ...

First they also use files in root of the UFD, e.g \sources\boot.wim. First I changed the path to sources\1\boot.wim and adopted the entries in the BCD --> it worked!
Then I created another subfolder: \sources\2\boot.wim (this boot.wim comes from another bootmgr-based WIN PE). I created another Windows Boot Loader section in the BCD-file and adopted the paths ... but when I want to boot now from the UFD, it does NOT show the boot-menu, it reboots and reboots ...

Any ideas?

Edited by triplexxx, 16 October 2010 - 10:26 AM.

[triplexxx]

Any ideas?

Solved! I used "Bcdtool", copied the Windows Boot Loader entry and adopted the path to \source\2\boot.wim ... and it worked

Now I am going to test Grub, because I also want to boot different versions of DOS, ntldr-based WIN PEs, and Linux-Distris ...

Edited by triplexxx, 16 October 2010 - 10:44 AM.

[Wonko the Sane]

Now I am going to test Grub, because I also want to boot different versions of DOS, ntldr-based WIN PEs, and Linux-Distris ...

Then you are advised to test grub4dos AND NOT Grub (GNU GRUB or Grub 1, or Grub Legacy) AND NOT Grub2:
http://www.boot-land...hp?showforum=66


Wonko

[triplexxx]

Another challange:

I want to get to work a ntldr-based Win PE working with bootmgr (that works fine) and WIM-technology.

See:
http://www.911cd.net...php/t14301.html
or here:
http://www.msfn.org/...sta-bootloader/

I followed the instruction, but didn't get the WIM to work. That means, that I made the WIM-file sucessfully, but when bootmgr is loading thw WIM-file, I get the error can't find "I386\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM" ...

Any ideas?

Edited by triplexxx, 17 October 2010 - 08:07 PM.

[m041633n]

How do i boot Windows Xp Pro & bartpe from my UFD. When i try to boot Bart pe
with these entries

title BartPEfind --set-root /minint/setupldr.binchainloader /minint/setupldr.bin

it loads the NTLDR which is in the root of my UFD & then boots into Windows Xp text based setup and i can't get into my BARTPE
can someone help me???