brianfgonzalez Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 I would like to add WinXP on my C: drive as a boot option for my WinPE boot WIM.I tried to use the bcdedit command line util in Vista and it seemed to add the {legacy} entry successfully, but I was unable to set the option as the "default" and I also was unsuccessful in setting a "timeout" value for the boot menu. So no boot menu appears when booting using the BCD.Any Help is MUCH appreciated. ! Thanks in advance !wow this must be harder than i think it is ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vyruz Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 Hi man,I'm looking for exactly the same, can't get it working either...Could you post a bit more details about your configuration, I'll do that same and perhaps we can figure out how to get this working using our combined configs...This is what I'm doing:- Bootable USB flash drive (this will become a CD/DVD in the final product) with working WinPE environment- Local NTFS drive containing a windows XP SP2 installationSo this is the output of my current F:\boot\bcd when running 'bcdedit /store f:\boot\bcd':C:\BootStores\FPMD\boot>bcdedit /store f:\boot\bcdWindows Boot Manager--------------------identifier {bootmgr}description Windows Boot Managerlocale en-USinherit {globalsettings}default {default}displayorder {default} {ntldr}toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}timeout 30Windows Boot Loader-------------------identifier {default}device ramdisk=[boot]\sources\boot.wim,{7619dcc8-fafe-11d9-b411-000476eba25f}path \windows\system32\boot\winload.exedescription WinPElocale en-USinherit {bootloadersettings}osdevice ramdisk=[boot]\sources\boot.wim,{7619dcc8-fafe-11d9-b411-000476eba25f}systemroot \windowsdetecthal Yeswinpe Yesems YesWindows Legacy OS Loader------------------------identifier {ntldr}device partition=C:path ntldrdescription Windows XPWhat's happening is the following:Upon boot from USB flash drive I do get the boot menu, the WinPE boot option works fine and boots to my USB WinPE environmentWhen selecting the Windows XP option though, it's trying to load the 'ntldr' file from my USB flash drive (tested this by putting ntldr in the root of the drive). So apparently when the bootloader is running, C: is whatever device it's currently booting from...So i tried changing the device option in my bcd file to D: by running:bcdedit /store f:\boot\bcd -set {ntldr} device partition=D:But the result was the same...If anyone could help with this that would be awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocketero Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 Hi man,I'm looking for exactly the same, can't get it working either...Could you post a bit more details about your configuration, I'll do that same and perhaps we can figure out how to get this working using our combined configs...This is what I'm doing:- Bootable USB flash drive (this will become a CD/DVD in the final product) with working WinPE environment- Local NTFS drive containing a windows XP SP2 installationSo this is the output of my current F:\boot\bcd when running 'bcdedit /store f:\boot\bcd':C:\BootStores\FPMD\boot>bcdedit /store f:\boot\bcdWindows Boot Manager--------------------identifier {bootmgr}description Windows Boot Managerlocale en-USinherit {globalsettings}default {default}displayorder {default} {ntldr}toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}timeout 30Windows Boot Loader-------------------identifier {default}device ramdisk=[boot]\sources\boot.wim,{7619dcc8-fafe-11d9-b411-000476eba25f}path \windows\system32\boot\winload.exedescription WinPElocale en-USinherit {bootloadersettings}osdevice ramdisk=[boot]\sources\boot.wim,{7619dcc8-fafe-11d9-b411-000476eba25f}systemroot \windowsdetecthal Yeswinpe Yesems YesWindows Legacy OS Loader------------------------identifier {ntldr}device partition=C:path ntldrdescription Windows XPWhat's happening is the following:Upon boot from USB flash drive I do get the boot menu, the WinPE boot option works fine and boots to my USB WinPE environmentWhen selecting the Windows XP option though, it's trying to load the 'ntldr' file from my USB flash drive (tested this by putting ntldr in the root of the drive). So apparently when the bootloader is running, C: is whatever device it's currently booting from...So i tried changing the device option in my bcd file to D: by running:bcdedit /store f:\boot\bcd -set {ntldr} device partition=D:But the result was the same...If anyone could help with this that would be awesome!Have you tried changing in "Windows Legacy OS Loader" the Identifier from {ntldr} to {default} ?that's the way mine works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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