Hi, i have build a USB-Stick with WinXP and other and all works fine, but I have a little Problem with boot.ini. I have a PC who have no Support to boot from USB but i use the PLPBT-Driver via Kickstart-CD so i can boot from USB and start the first and second Part of Installation of XP. Works perfektly. Now my Idea is following: I want reinstall Grub and the plpbt-Driver with the first part of Textmode-Installation automatically. I must only copy grldr, menu.lst, plpbt.bin to C: and a modificated boot.ini with C:\grldr="Start GRUB4DOS" too so i dont need the Kickstart-CD and bevor the GUI-Mode Installation begins i can load the Driver from Harddisk. Witch file generate the boot.ini in the first part of Installation?

Hope anybody can help me

Edited July 22, 201016 yr by MetaIIica

Witch file generate the boot.ini in the first part of Installation?

It's generated by the setup routine itself, right at the end of text mode part.

The file responsible should be setupdd.sys, but it's just a guess. I doubt with hex editing you can achieve what you need.

Idea- you may copy using txtsetup.sif for example the files needed as well as a file boot.ini with default entry for PLOP, but setup will add a new line and will change the default entry to continue GUI part.

Semi-automatic way would be to do the above even with timeout 1, but after restart at end of Text mode quickly press F8 several times to get in the extended menu, select back to OS choices and then select PLOP.

Added:

What did you use to prepare your USB stick with Windows setup?

oh my goodness this is a holy s*** with the Hexeditor *lol* I have just for fun looked the setupdd.sys (have be expand before) and i see lots of Crypt and not who i can do what..... hmmmmmm