Help with Mutliboot WinPE 2.0

[amit_talkin]

Hi,

I have enough read about making multiboot DVD. I need help regarding boot entries. Whenever I boot my DVD with following BCD entries, nothing happens..only black screen and DVD indicator showing that DVD being accessed frequently but nothing happens even after waiting for an hour.

my current BCD entries are as below

Windows Boot Manager

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identifier {bootmgr}

description Windows Boot Manager

locale en-US

inherit {globalsettings}

default {default}

displayorder {default}

{ec09acf2-c22b-11dd-8910-005056c00008}

toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}

timeout 30

Windows Boot Loader

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identifier {default}

device ramdisk=[boot]\vistape.wim,{7619dcc8-fafe-11d9-b411-000476eba25f}

path \windows\system32\boot\winload.exe

description WinPE

locale en-US

inherit {bootloadersettings}

osdevice ramdisk=[boot]\vistape.wim,{7619dcc8-fafe-11d9-b411-000476eba25f}

systemroot \windows

detecthal Yes

winpe Yes

ems Yes

Windows Boot Loader

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identifier {ec09acf2-c22b-11dd-8910-005056c00008}

device ramdisk=[boot]\Sources\boot.wim,{7619dcc8-fafe-11d9-b411-000476eba25f}

path \windows\system32\boot\winload.exe

description O&O DiskImage

locale en-US

inherit {bootloadersettings}

osdevice ramdisk=[boot]\Sources\boot.wim,{7619dcc8-fafe-11d9-b411-000476eba25f}

systemroot \windows

detecthal Yes

winpe Yes

ems Yes

I have 2 custom boot.wim files.

1. Custom WinPE named 'vistape.wim' placed in root of DVD.

2. O&O DiskImage WinPE named 'boot.wim' placed inside "Sources" folder.

Am I missing something in those entries?

plz correct me if anything is wrong with entries.

Amit

Edited December 4, 2008 by amit_talkin

[amit_talkin]

mmm...at which site I can get help regarding to this problem?I mean any special site regarding to winpe and bootable CDs? ( except boot-land.net and 911cd. )

[jaclaz]

( except boot-land.net and 911cd. )

Just out of curiosity, why?

Are they in your personal "blacklist"?

jaclaz

[amit_talkin]

( except boot-land.net and 911cd. )

Just out of curiosity, why?

Are they in your personal "blacklist"?

jaclaz

boot-lend.net not accepting registration anymore when I tried to register on their forums. ( atm, forum looks like under maintainance to me. )

I registered an account on 911cd and but I aint able to post topics there.

there is no personal "Blacklists" .

now to the point, whts wrong with me BCD entries?

Edited December 12, 2008 by amit_talkin

[jaclaz]

Yep, boot-land had a lot of problems lately and is currently offline for maintenance, being transferred to a new server, it should be back in a couple of days.

On 911Cd, that had similar problems with BOTs, some additional measures to prevent automated registering has been taken, from what I can see:

http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showuser=44049

amit_talkin

Validating

you should either have received a confirmation e-mail or the Admin will send you one shortly.

Back to topic:

At first sight (but I am NO expert on this matter) your BCD entries seem fine, are you sure that you haven't anything BEFORE that "wrong" (wrong no-emulation bootsector for example)

How did you created the .iso/burned the DVD?

I mean, if the BCD's are wrong, you should see an error message of some kind.

You may want to recreate a CD/DVD with just one entry, following (as an example) a tutorial like this one:

http://searchenterprisedesktop.techtarget....1297757,00.html

When it works, you may want to add the second instance and recreate the DVD.

This:

http://www.msfn.org/board/bootmgr-based-Mu...tly-t99823.html

may be useful.

jaclaz

[amit_talkin]

are you sure that you haven't anything BEFORE that "wrong" (wrong no-emulation bootsector for example)

thnx for reminding me that. I had created bootable ISO with wrong boot file. ( using ultraISO ).

it was problem of bootsector itself not BCD. tried this time with correct boot file and it worked fine .

thnx for your help.

Amit

[jaclaz]

It's hard to admit that in this instance (and probably in this one only ) it's not the fault of the MS guys and the way they transformed BOOT.INI into something unneededly complex....

Happy for your success.

jaclaz

[amit_talkin]

+1 .