/SDIBOOT

[black_13]

I was searching on sysinternals website
http://www.sysinternals.com/Information/bootini.html
and found this flag /SDIBOOT:

"Used in Windows XP Embedded systems to have Windows boot from a
RAM disk image stored in the specified System Disk Image (SDI) file."

I had often wondered what use sdifile and sdi driver were useful for.
has someone compiled a recipe for how to use this flag?

black_13

 

[John Coyne \(eMVP\)]

Black,

Pretty hefty response... System Deployment Imaging (SDI) is a big animal. I
would suggest reading this first, and then coming back with specifics:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnxpesp1/html/ram_sdi.asp

HTH,
JC

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John Coyne
eMVP
Windows Embedded Black Belt
Arrow Electronics, OCS division



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[KM]

black_13,

It is pretty much the same as the /rdpath switch of boot.ini.
You can search this NG archive. We have discussed the rdpath switch quite a few times.

The only difference is that with the rdpath you have to have the correct ARC path to load SDI file (initialize ramdisk and etc.)
like ramdisk(0)\Windows=...
While with the SDIBOOT switch it is not required.

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Regards,
KM