WinPE Dual Boot

[neill.goldwater]

Hi

Does anyone know if its possible to create a dual boot WinPE CD? I've
got two ISO's, one 32-bit, one 64-bit. I'd like to have a prompt come
up asking the user which one they want, then based on that selection,
load the appropriate ISO into RAM.

Please don't reply with instructions on how to dual boot WinPE and
WinXP. This is a very specific request I have pertaining only to
WinPE; to the best of my knowledge, boot.ini is not available for what
I'm trying to do.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Neill

 

[Timothy Daniels]

Does anyone know if its possible to create a dual boot WinPE CD? I've
got two ISO's, one 32-bit, one 64-bit. I'd like to have a prompt come
up asking the user which one they want, then based on that selection,
load the appropriate ISO into RAM.

Please don't reply with instructions on how to dual boot WinPE and
WinXP. This is a very specific request I have pertaining only to
WinPE; to the best of my knowledge, boot.ini is not available for what
I'm trying to do.

Why not use the facility of WinXP's boot files and just use them
to boot the WinPE systems? Since one can create a boot CD for
WinXP and WinPE, ntldr and boot.ini and ntdetect.com can be
used to boot WinPE as well as WinXP. Just don't include WinXP
as an OS option. Remember that ntldr runs before WinXP is even
found and loaded, so it and the other 2 boot files don't need WinXP
to run. But I leave the details are left to you.

*TimDaniels*

 

[Guest]

I understand your problem.... (but my english issnt the best.. )
the winpe will load the bootmanager and after this is loaded the "winpe.wim"
Image.
all new operating systems like Windows Vista and Windows Pe are in WIM
Images. he will be loaded on systemstart. so you can change and add or delete
the selection of the image in the boot manager. use the "bcdedit" tool to
customize the bootmanager.