booting MINIPE from harddisk

[anteelsayed]

well im beginner in booting by grub4dos

and i have grub installed on a partition of my hd

im trying to boot MINIPE by grub

so i tried to embed these lines to my menu.lst

title boot minixp

find --set-root /MINIPE/i386/SETUPLDR.BIN

chainloader /MINIPE/i386/SETUPLDR.BIN

(before this i tried to boot from bootsect.bin but knew that it cant be booted by grub)

anyway when booting grub4dos and choosing "minixp"

i got this message

"TXTSETUP.SIF is corrupt or missing"

so can anybody help me out with this

i dont wat to boot from the iso image but by the decompressed files

thanks in advance

Edited September 15, 2009 by Tripredacus

[Tripredacus]

MiniXP.... MiniPE?

I'm locking this because of these words. If the OP feels this is a problem, the OP can PM me about it.

[anteelsayed]

i am trying to boot windows PE from hd

i already have grub4dos installed on one of my partitions

i didnt want to boot from the iso image so decompressed it into "PE" folder in another partition

and i added these lines in menu.lst

title boot xp

find --set-root /PE/i386/SETUPLDR.BIN

chainloader /PE/i386/SETUPLDR.BIN

when booting from setupldr.bin i got this message

"TXTSETUP.SIF is corrupt or missing"

i dont know if i should add other commands or what? so anybody can offer me some help....

Edited September 15, 2009 by anteelsayed

[jaclaz]

You CANNOT have /PE/I386/.

If on CD/superfloppy the hardcoded path is:

/I386/

if on HD or hard disk like device (USB stick partitioned), path is:

/minint/

Read this too :

http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=17504

jaclaz

[anteelsayed]

really?

i thought i could name whatever and setupldr will detect the paths ,didnt know it must work according to default values

but anyway thanx for your help and i'll try it

[anteelsayed]

i couldnt get it again

i corrected the path of setupldr from "g:\PE\i386\setuplr.bin" to "g:\minint\minint\setupldr.bin"

and still get that message

plz anyone write me the correct path and the menu.lst entries

thanx

Edited September 16, 2009 by anteelsayed

[dencorso]

Try "g:\minint\setupldr.bin".

[jaclaz]

i corrected the path of setupldr from "g:\PE\i386\setuplr.bin" to "g:\minint\minint\setupldr.bin"

Which means you completely failed to read what I wrote AND the given link.

title boot xp
find --set-root /minint/SETUPLDR.BIN
chainloader /minint/SETUPLDR.BIN

The build must be in directory:

ROOT\I386\

or

ROOT\minint\

i.e.:

G:\minint\

in your case of a HD, or you need to hexedit the SETUPLDR.BIN

jaclaz

Edited September 16, 2009 by jaclaz

[anteelsayed]

after reading the posts from dencorso and jaclaz i tried this:

i cut all the files (including setupldr.bin) from ROOT\minint\i386 nd put them directly in ROOT\minint

so that minint folder now contains

folders as :programs ,documents,fonts,system32...

and files as:setupldr,bootsect,win51ip,txtsetup...

and booted grub but unluckily i still get that message

so i wish i didnt miss sth this time

[jaclaz]

after reading the posts from dencorso and jaclaz i tried this:

i cut all the files (including setupldr.bin) from ROOT\minint\i386 nd put them directly in ROOT\minint

so that minint folder now contains

folders as :programs ,documents,fonts,system32...

and files as:setupldr,bootsect,win51ip,txtsetup...

and booted grub but unluckily i still get that message

so i wish i didnt miss sth this time

I guess you are making things more complex than they are.

You have a .iso, right?

With a \I386 directory, right?

Follow the standard instructions:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/883390/en-us

You shouldn't need to copy NTDETECT.COM and SETUPLDR.BIN to ROOT, since you will be using grub4dos as a loader, but since it won't do any harm, do it as well, only don't rename SETUPLDR.BIN to NTLDR.

Then try both:

title boot PE1

find --set-root /minint/SETUPLDR.BIN

chainloader /minint/SETUPLDR.BIN

title boot PE2

find --set-root /minint/SETUPLDR.BIN

chainloader /SETUPLDR.BIN

jaclaz

[anteelsayed]

I couldn't do it again although i made everything this time and here's a directory tree of what i've done

ROOT:

ـــــــــــــــــــــــsetupldr.bin

ـــــــــــــــــــــــNTDETECT.COM

ـــــــــــــــــــــــminint:

ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــsetupldr

ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــtxtsetup

ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــntdetect

ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ(and all other contents of i386 folder)

you may start to doubt about my winpe build but i booted it normally with grub4dos by (hd32) and (0xff) but the problem is that it just stop or hang during the boot screen.

although i am sure i'm driving you mad but i don't think you are out of ideas

oh,by the way the root partition doesn't have to be primary or reformatted or this stuff right ?

thanx for your help anyway

Edited September 17, 2009 by anteelsayed

[Tripredacus]

That's all the help you are going to get.

http://www.msfn.org/board/booting-minipe-h...pid-882723.html