[ipxe-devel] wimboot improvement

Michael Brown mcb30 at ipxe.org
Mon Jun 20 12:30:04 UTC 2016


On 19/06/16 15:16, Vasyl Melnyk wrote:
> I have an idea how to improve wimboot a little.
>
> Bcd and boot.sdi can be also obtained from boot.wim the same way as
> bootmgr.exe. So, if no bcd or boot.sdi is specified it would be logical
> to get them from boot.wim too.
>
> bcd path is *\Windows\Boot\DVD\PCAT\bcd* for non-UEFI boot and
> *\Windows\Boot\DVD\EFI\bcd* for UEFI boot.
>
> Boot.sdi path is *\Windows\Boot\DVD\PCAT\boot.sdi* and
> *\Windows\Boot\DVD\EFI\boot.sdi* but they are the same.

Are those files present:

a) in the standard Windows installation .iso images for Win7/8/8.1?

b) in the standard Windows installation .iso images for Win2008/2012?

c) in standard WinPE images created by the WAIK or WADK?

Michael



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