List of supported Boot-methodes for PE projects

Posted 02 May 2010 - 01:09 PM

Made a list of all PE boot methodes, i have ever seen or heared about here, for myself.
Maybe it is also useful for somebody else.

- PE plain on CD - Create ISO script
- PE ramboot ISO-Image on CD - only still used by me, i think
- PE ramboot HDD-Image on CD - Boot SDI script(LiveXP, NaughtyPE), Boot from RAM script(nativeEx)
- PE ramboot WIM-Image on CD - WimBoot script(LiveXP), All Vista, Win7 based projects
- PE plain on USB-Stick - create USB stick script(nativeEx)
- PE plain ISO-Image on USB-Stick - non scripted
- PE ramboot ISO-Image on USB-Stick
- PE ramboot HDD-Image on USB-Stick - non scripted
- PE ramboot HDD-Image in ISO on USB-Stick - non scripted
- PE ramboot WIM-Image on USB-Stick - VistaPE Leopard, other?
- PE ramboot WIM-Image in ISO on USB-Stick - non scripted

And then the whole shebang over PXE, i guess. But this is not supported in any project, as far as i know.

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Posted 02 May 2010 - 03:21 PM

title LiveXP-load into memory if available

map (hd0) (hd20)

map --hook

map --mem (hd20,8)+819252 (hd0,0) || map (hd20) (hd0)

map --hook

find --set-root /LIVEXP.TAG

chainloader /NTLDR

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Posted 02 May 2010 - 05:32 PM

Had to read your post a few times and think, i still don't quite get it.

You create a PE plain ISO. Copy the the iso to a HDD and then load the HDD(partition) into RAM.
Then you ...

Here i completely loose you.

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Posted 03 May 2010 - 01:23 AM

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Posted 03 May 2010 - 12:01 PM

I'm still confused.
If you have the PE in an ISO, why would you need to change i386 folder to minint?

Can you possibly tell in more detail what exactly you do?

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Posted 03 May 2010 - 04:55 PM

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Posted 03 May 2010 - 05:44 PM

Ahh, i see! Now things make sense.

So you have a clever hybrid PE, which switches automaticly between:

- PE in a HDD image on a USB-Stick
- PE ramboot HDD-Image on USB-Stick

depending on the available RAM.

Very clever! Sounds like something that deserves to get integrated into a PE.

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Posted 04 May 2010 - 03:51 AM

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