[ipxe-devel] "Native Boot" of Windows with iPXE
Michael Brown
mbrown at fensystems.co.uk
Tue Sep 18 14:41:01 UTC 2012
On Tuesday 18 Sep 2012 01:04:52 Jivko Dobrev(Hotmail) wrote:
> I was wondering if there's a way to do a "native boot" of Windows with
> iPXE? The "Native Boot" is to boot from a locally saved VHD.
I haven't tried it, but you might be able to use wimboot
(http://ipxe.org/wimboot) to boot a VHD that was downloaded by iPXE.
If WIndows needs only read access to the VHD file (i.e. treats it as a RAM
disk) then it should work, provided that you use a recent enough version of
bootmgr.
Michael
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