Sereby Posted August 29, 2006 Share Posted August 29, 2006 (edited) hii 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\bcdboot\boot.sdiboot\bootfix.binsources\boot.wimbootmgrhope anybody can help me Edited September 22, 2006 by Sereby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jungle_warrior Posted August 30, 2006 Share Posted August 30, 2006 There may be two WIM files on the OPK CD, one is boot.wim, another is winpe.wim.Micro$oft says they are different, and should apply Ximage on winpe.wim.hope this could help you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sereby Posted August 30, 2006 Author Share Posted August 30, 2006 (edited) the winpe.wim and boot.wim from the waik are the same (150mb!)i used the boot.wim from vista build 5536 (only ~100mb)if i use the unmodifyed boot.wim from this build it works and it starts the setup window. and if i use the winpe.wim and change this one it works too but i want the newer one and the smaller one Edited August 30, 2006 by Sereby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jungle_warrior Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 (edited) M$ says the following in the winpe.chm file of the opk CD:Windows PE Build EnvironmentA 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paraglider Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 You will have to wait until MS releases an updated WAIK. That may not be until Vista goes RTM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicAndre1981 Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 an updated WAIK for RC1 is availible for official Beta-Testers on connect.microsoft.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sereby Posted September 22, 2006 Author Share Posted September 22, 2006 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metzen Posted September 21, 2007 Share Posted September 21, 2007 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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