Comments on: PXE boot WinPE 2 (Vista) using Linux as the PXE Server

By: gull

gull — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:50:03 +0000

Thanks for putting together such a good tutorial – great work!

Just thought i’d add that if you are adding drivers to the winpe.wim file under Server 2008/Windows 7,
“peimg” has been replaced with the slightly more convoluted command “dism”.

So, the process for adding the drivers in your example would be:

C:> dism /Mount-Wim /WimFile:C:\win7pe\winpe.wim /index:1 /MountDir:C:\win7pe\mount

C:> dism /Image:C:\win7pe\mount /Add-Driver /Driver:”C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools\Drivers\vmxnet\vmware-nic.inf”
C:> dism /Image:C:\win7pe\mount /Add-Driver /Driver:”C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools\Drivers\vmxnet\vmxnet.inf”

C:> dism /Unmount-Wim /MountDir:C:\win7pe\mount /commit

Note: you *must* have mounted the image using “dism” and not “imagex” for the “dism /Add-Driver” commands to operate.

By: matt

matt — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:36:10 +0000

Yes, you could boot up either Linux or Windows from PXE with the user choosing at the menu which one to boot (/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default)

By: Lu

Lu — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:59:30 +0000

Great Job, i’ve just a question, With this project could i start windows and linux in the terminals?, i mean the user choose OS (Linux or Windows) work.

Best regards, and thanks for your help.-

By: domi235

domi235 — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:21:43 +0000

A very big thank you for this awesome tutorial! _/-\o_

By: Cyril

Cyril — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:18:06 +0000

It’s not always the case of /Boot/BCD and I got /boot/bcd in my box.
Nick’s problem can be found out with tftpd server started with -vvv option and
get the real file name that pxeboot.n12(startrom.0) wants
in /var/log/daemon.log or /var/log/syslog

By: rama krushna sahu

rama krushna sahu — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:12:03 +0000

Can I set the IP using netsh command for winpe.
I tried but I am getting errors like

“The file name, directory name, or volume level syntax is incorrect”

This seems to be a syntax error. I tested with several changes using this command it is showing same above error.

By: rama krushna sahu

rama krushna sahu — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:44:33 +0000

gr \\ /
this should be in RedHat
rg \\ /

By: matt

matt — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:53:38 +0000

Thanks for the update. Hopefully it will help somebody else. Matt.

By: mt

mt — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:14:44 +0000

i’ve resolved my question… i create a file /etc/tftpd-hpa.rules whith this:
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rg \\ /
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and declare de option in the file /etc/default/tftp-hpa whit this:
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options:”-l -s /var/lib/tftpboot -m /etc/tftpd-hpa.rules -vvv”
———-
and resolve the error “….Boot\BCD…”, when boot winpe
Sorry for my english.
cheers..

By: mt

mt — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:13:17 +0000

How to configure tftp.remap on ubuntu tftp server?, thank a lot for your help!