Will Anderson Posted August 22, 2007 Share Posted August 22, 2007 Alrighty...I've been able to create an image using a lot of the input from the crew on this site.I've been taking the steps to manually format the disk and assign a drive letter and what not...plus actually applying the image so i get a better understanding of how things work.Here's the question:When I capture an image from the OS...do I need to use the /boot switch so it know that when the image is applied, the partition will be bootable?The problem I'm having is that I applied the image successfully...but I get a black screen on reboot. I just hangs.Any ideas? Forgive me for all the beginner questions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bj-kaiser Posted August 22, 2007 Share Posted August 22, 2007 imagex doesnt care for boot sectors, it just saves the files in the partition. you will have to apply a boot sector with bootsect.exe from the WAIK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zorphnog Posted August 22, 2007 Share Posted August 22, 2007 The /boot switch should only be used it you want to make a WinPE boot solution. It allows you to boot into a PE environment. If your image is of XP/2003 try using: bootsect /nt52 c: /force (where c: is your system drive). Now if you're trying to load the image on different hardware you may be having a host of different issues, but try the bootsect command first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Anderson Posted August 22, 2007 Author Share Posted August 22, 2007 Alrighty!I managed to make the image bootable thanks to you both!Unfortunately it bluescreened right off the bat, but I think that's a matter of not sysprepping the image and trying to place it on another machine. So I'll go ahead and try that out.Now obviously, there's a lot to do in order to prep the drive for imaging, and then applying it to another drive. Can I just add an autoexec.bat to perform the diskpart, imagex and the bootsect to my ISO and have it run? Or do i need to modify something to do that?I'm slowly but surely starting to understand this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bj-kaiser Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 (edited) Now obviously, there's a lot to do in order to prep the drive for imaging, and then applying it to another drive. Can I just add an autoexec.bat to perform the diskpart, imagex and the bootsect to my ISO and have it run? Or do i need to modify something to do that?tip: {yourPEImage}\windows\system32\startnet.cmdread the Windows PE docs about it. Edited August 23, 2007 by bj-kaiser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p4ntb0y Posted August 25, 2007 Share Posted August 25, 2007 Well you can use.....wimbom.ini as described in the DOC's and format the drive.Also you can mark the drive as active in wimbom.iniYou can then use OEMRunonce for imagex.exe For your image I would read up on referencing drivers with sysprep and don't forget the HAL are all your computers compatiable?But again this can be done easy enougth by sealing the machine as "ACPI" and then run a script to update the sysprep.inf this could be done in OEMRunonce as well.Or you can use startnet.cmd and then call scripts from there.....call diskpart and call imagexAs stated in the previous post I would defo read the DOC's winpe.chm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcemanND Posted August 26, 2007 Share Posted August 26, 2007 Everything you are asking is here:http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...mp;#entry674778 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunny1552 Posted October 25, 2007 Share Posted October 25, 2007 I had installed WAIK and followed the procedures desribed by MS to create WinPE2 disk ISO and burned it.My question is whether it contains bootsect.exe file ? or do i have to manually add it in the image? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunny1552 Posted October 25, 2007 Share Posted October 25, 2007 And @ Mr AndersonI also did what u did + i sysprepped it and created the WIM but after applying it it agains shows up BSOD so sysprep doesnt fit in this bcos it crashes while WinXP boots up and Sysprep works after successful boting up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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