Dual boot WinXP WinPE on 2 different partitions

[staples]

I am trying to create a dual boot of Windows PE and Windows XP and be able to switch with Boot.ini. I have searched and cannot find the solution if they are on different partitions.

partition view

partition 1 - Windows PE

partition 2 - Windows 2k/xp/2k3 - active partition with boot.ini

partition 3 - Data

Boot.ini

[boot loader]

timeout=30

default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT

[operating systems]

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\MININT="Microsoft Windows PE 2005" /fastdetect /minint

Has anyone else done this? Do you have some ideas?

things I have tried...

ntldr from different OSes.

Different boot.ini settings.

Tried Recover Console changes in different msfn postings.

[mats]

Yes you can

I posted this in the tread boot pe form HD earlier

1. Grab a copy of mkbt and nt2peldr from bart

2. make a working ramdisk booting pe iso, place it in c:\ with the name test1.iso

3. copy setupldr.bin from a server2003sp1 disc to c:\peldr

4. run mkbt -c -x c: c:\peboot.bin

5. run nt2peldr c:\peboot.bin

6. Edit boot.ini and add a line

c:\peboot.bin="PE From ram"

7. Create a winnt.sif file with the following in it

[setupData]

BootDevice = "ramdisk(0)"

BootPath = "\i386\System32\"

OsLoadOptions = "/noguiboot /fastdetect /minint /rdexportascd /rdpath=test1.iso"

Architecture = "i386"

Reboot the system and enjoy

If you don't want to boot from a ramdisk image simply create the minint folder and place the contents of your pebuild/i386 folder in minint

[staples]

What about without a RAMDisk

contents of winnt.sif?

[mats]

Delete winnt.sif.

Setupldr will look for winnt.sif (or any sif i think) and if it doesn't find it it will look for a minint folder and boot from that instead