staples Posted September 2, 2005 Share Posted September 2, 2005 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 viewpartition 1 - Windows PEpartition 2 - Windows 2k/xp/2k3 - active partition with boot.inipartition 3 - DataBoot.ini[boot loader]timeout=30default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT[operating systems]multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetectmulti(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\MININT="Microsoft Windows PE 2005" /fastdetect /minintHas 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mats Posted September 3, 2005 Share Posted September 3, 2005 Yes you canI posted this in the tread boot pe form HD earlier1. Grab a copy of mkbt and nt2peldr from bart2. make a working ramdisk booting pe iso, place it in c:\ with the name test1.iso3. copy setupldr.bin from a server2003sp1 disc to c:\peldr4. run mkbt -c -x c: c:\peboot.bin5. run nt2peldr c:\peboot.bin6. 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
staples Posted September 6, 2005 Author Share Posted September 6, 2005 What about without a RAMDiskcontents of winnt.sif? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mats Posted September 7, 2005 Share Posted September 7, 2005 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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