stevesumner

Hey cheers for that jaclaz, really useful info. I have tried your method and just want to check a couple of things. I should use XP's format to format the USB to FAT, then copy BartPE files to the USB. Then copy ntldr and boot.ini from c: drive and also copy grldr. Then edit boot.ini to have the line C:\GRLDR="Grub4dos" and title PE/BartPE/Winbuilder chainloader /setupldr or similar. Is that right? And that's all? My boot.ini looks like this: [boot loader] timeout=30 [operating systems] C:\GRLDR="Grub4dos" title BartPE chainloader /setupldr

Hmmm, not sure what I did. I found that after booting and getting the blue screen from BartPE, the next time grub wouldn't even work, it would just say try (hd 0,0) fat 16 try (hd 0,1) fat 16 error Or something like that from memory. Then when I plugged my USB back into Windows PC and checked in Explorer one drive had become hidden, a bit of a nuisance. I changed the second partition to the iso method and ramdrive and now the USB boots fine, maybe there was something wrong with my partitions and using the "pe2usb -f f:" command with the -f format switch fixed it? Still end up with a hidden partition which is not ideal. I would be interested in which method you prefer and what your menu.lst file would have, if you use grub as a bootloader, jaclaz.

Right, I got the Grub boot working. Only problem is when I use Markymoo's menu.lst it works the first time, but never again. the reason is that the partitions are hidden! So then I have to use a partition manager to unhide the partitions. Is there any way around this? Markymoo, what do you do once your partitions are hidden? I tried editing the menu.lst and removing the hide/unhide lines, but then BartPE would boot halfway and blue screen. So far I have tried numerous methods and Markymoo's seems to be the best. I just need some help avoiding the hidden partition problem.