Cannot start WinPE 2.0 Build 5536 (and RC1)

[Sereby]

hi

i made me a cd which should load WinPE 2.0 but this fails.

after the ntoskrnl.exe boot screen is finished the following error appear:

"Windows PE cannot start because the actual SYSTEMROOT directory (X:\Windows) is different from the configured one (X:\$Windows.~BT\Windows). This can be configured with peimg /targetpath..."

But when i use the original boot.wim from the vista build is works. so say me plz whats wrong

Mounted the image with the following command:

ximage /mountrw "F:\WINPE\WINPE2.0-ISO\sources\boot.wim" 1 "C:\mounted"

compressed with the following command:

ximage /capture /compress maximum /boot "F:\WINPE\Build 5536" "C:\boot.wim" "WINPE20"

my folder structure of the cd:

boot\bcd

boot\boot.sdi

boot\bootfix.bin

sources\boot.wim

bootmgr

hope anybody can help me

Edited September 22, 2006 by Sereby

[jungle_warrior]

There may be two WIM files on the OPK CD, one is boot.wim, another is winpe.wim.

Micro$oft says they are different, and should apply Ximage on winpe.wim.

hope this could help you.

[Sereby]

the winpe.wim and boot.wim from the waik are the same (150mb!)

i used the boot.wim from vista build 5536 (only ~100mb)

if i use the unmodifyed boot.wim from this build it works and it starts the setup window. and if i use the winpe.wim and change this one it works too but i want the newer one and the smaller one

Edited August 30, 2006 by Sereby

[jungle_warrior]

M$ says the following in the winpe.chm file of the opk CD:

Windows PE Build Environment

A Windows PE package contains the following:

Filename Description

Boot.wim

Default Windows PE boot image. This image contains all components and cannot be customized.

Winpe.wim

A customizable Windows PE image, also called the base image.

although opk CD is not WAIK, but I think M$ do not wish you to modify a file originally named "boot.wim", you may try to remove some components of winpe.wim(of the new version), hope to cut down 50MB

Edited August 31, 2006 by jungle_warrior

[Paraglider]

You will have to wait until MS releases an updated WAIK. That may not be until Vista goes RTM.

[MagicAndre1981]

an updated WAIK for RC1 is availible for official Beta-Testers on connect.microsoft.com

[Sereby]

with rc1 its still the same problem! but if i use peimg to change the path it does start but it only show up a cmd window and dont start the setup.exe! if i start it manual it aborts after selecting the os (unattended install)

i tried a lot but i dont get it working! can anybody help me? i used rc1 waik with vista rc1 both in german

[Metzen]

Digging into the registry I found this was because of 1 registry key. It's located here:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\pe_software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WinPE]
"PrepStatus"=dword:00000001
[b]"InstRoot"="X:\\$Windows.~BT\\"[/b]

What is needed is to change InstRoot to the directory below your Windows directory.

So, to enable this to work you'll need to set InstRoot=X:\

Why does Microsoft do this? So you can use a WinPE install off a harddisk with all the associated expanded files as oppoesd to a large WinPE image.

At least, that's what I've figured