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[rocketero]

I haven't seen many posts on adding images (ISO)'s to already built USB fash drives or USB HDD.

 

In my case I have a 1TB USB HDD, I created a partition of 30 GB to use with Xboot and placed around 15 Images of different Linux Distros, Utilities and Antivirus ISO's, and the total size was around 10.5 GB.

 

But I forgot to place a Windows 8 PE or to better say it I still didn't have the Win8PE image at the time I created this USB Xboot, so once I created the Win8PEx64 ISO I was with the question on how to place it in the already build USB XBoot HDD.

 

To my surprise it was very easy,

 

I edited the menu.lst at the root and added this:

### MENU END
title Windows
configfile /boot/grub4dos/windows.lst
### MENU END 

created a file called windows.lst and placed it in /boot/grub4dos folder.

the content of this file is:

color magenta/white white/magenta black/white black/white 

### MENU END
title MAIN MENU 
configfile /menu.lst
### MENU END


### MENU START
title Windows8_PE x64\nWIN8PEx64_2013_07_12.ISO  (600 MB)\n
ls /images/Win8PE_x64.ISO || find --set-root /images/Win8PE_x64.ISO
map --heads=0 --sectors-per-track=0 /images/Win8PE_x64.ISO (0xff) || map --heads=0 --sectors-per-track=0 --mem /images/Win8PE_x64.ISO (0xff)
map --hook
chainloader (0xff)
### MENU END

that entry was similar at the ones in boot/grub4dos/linux.lst, I just copied one of the linux entries there and edited accordingly to the name of the ISO. ..

 

And now I can boot with Windows 8 PE from the grub4dos menu.

 

I'm sorry to read about the original creator of XBoot has passed away, R.I.P, and thanks to the people who took this great project and keep it alve.

 

Regards.

 

EDITED:

if you use syslinx, edit file: /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg   and add:

### MENU START
LABEL -
MENU LABEL Windows
KERNEL /boot/syslinux/vesamenu.c32
APPEND /boot/syslinux/windows.cfg
TEXT HELP
ENDTEXT
### MENU END

create the file: /boot/syslinux/windows.cfg  and type this:

MENU TITLE Windows
INCLUDE /boot/syslinux/theme.cfg
INCLUDE /boot/syslinux/mainmenu.cfg


### MENU START
LABEL -
MENU LABEL Windows8_PE x64
LINUX /boot/syslinux/grub.exe
APPEND --config-file="ls /images/Win8PE_x64.ISO || find --set-root /images/Win8PE_x64.ISO;map --heads=0 --sectors-per-track=0 /images/Win8PE_x64.ISO (0xff) || map --heads=0 --sectors-per-track=0 --mem /images/Windows8_PE x64 (0xff);map --hook;chainloader (0xff)"
TEXT HELP
WIN8PEx64_2013_07_12.ISO  (668 MB)

ENDTEXT
### MENU END 

should give you a Windows Menu and the entry to boot with Win8PE. The size 668 MB was the size of my Win8PE ISO, And the label / title could be anything you want to name it.

Edited by rocketero, 13 July 2013 - 07:12 AM.