PE from Embedded CDs and Booting from USB Drive

D

demmel

Hi all,

I was following the Instructions at the http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa940882.aspx
to create a CD for deploying my XPe Images

I chose to use the PE environment provided on the Windows Embedded
Installation Disks. It all works fine but now i'd like to put the
whole thing on a usb drive.

I read a lot about PE on USB drives, but almost all the embedded
related info I can find is regarding PE 2.0 which isn't an option,
since it fails to load on the target machine (maybe to little
resources, I'm using the PCM-9375 board).

I tried following these instructions:
http://xpefiles.com/cs/blogs/bcombs...ng-a-ufd-to-boot-winpe-2-0-on-windows-xp.aspx
(which actually work on my usb drive with windows PE and my desktop
workstation, just not on the target system). For the PE 1.x I want to
use I changed the bootsect option to "/nt52" but it wouldn't boot. I
notice that the file system structure I try to put on the usb drive
looks like this:

diskpart.exe
embedded_master_image.sdi
etfsboot.com
<DIR> I386
imagex.exe
sdiaut.dll
SDIMgr.wsf
win51
win51ip
win51ip.SP2
winbom.ini
xpe.wim

with the I386 folder containing:
biosinfo.inf
bootfix.bin
<DIR> Fonts
<DIR> help
<DIR> inf
<DIR> msagent
ntdetect.com
setupldr.bin
spcmdcon.sys
<DIR> SYSTEM32
txtsetup.sif
winbom.ini
<DIR> WinSxS

How can i tell the bootloader to find this Windows PE?

I hoep someone has a clue.
 

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