USB Booting a SDI Image of WinPE

[David Thomas]

I'm try to get a USB drive to boot a SDI Image.
I've followed the steps of mkbt on a nt boot disk and copying the mbr
to the usb drive. I've also put the files ntdetect.com, ntldr, and
boot.ini on the drive as well as, of course, the image.sdi file.

The boot.ini looks like:
ramdisk(0)\windows="XPE RAM" /fastdetect
/rdpath=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\image.sdi
/rdimageoffset=245760

On boot I get an error: "Disk Error"

Any idea as to what step(s) I am missing?

David Thomas

 

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

Hi David,

Make two entries in boot.ini and put some timeout.
In case that you get this error without seeing multi OS choice screen then you have prepared badly your boot blocks on disk.
You should use DOS fdisk, format on your target machine to obtain valid boot blocks.

Or as an alternative you can use complete XPe USB boot solution pack from M-Systems with their uDOC disks and avoid all this
problems. Also you can do boot and FBA directly on uDOC.

Regards,
Slobodan

 

[KM]

David,

Did you see the RAM boot download progress before the error?

Also, why do you set rdimageoffset=245760?
Does it match the offset value for your SDI file PART section? (use SDIMgr to check)
IIRC, the default value is 4096. You may try it.

KM