AS with winpe 1.x, you had the option to load an iso image into ram using the server 2003 build, or not by using winxpsp2. With winpe 2.0, all the images i've seen load a wim into memory then execute it. Well, what if you just want to boot winpe2.0 with loading into ram? What is the procedure for this? Or is it even possible?

I think the WAIK has a description of how to do that.

WinPE2005 you have the possibility to load from cd without using a ramdisk or you can make a iso file that is loaded into memory before executed.

With WinPE2.0 the wim file is always load in memory before executed. You cannot load it like Winpe 2005 (Winpe from W2k3)



kyor

Well the WAIK sure states that it is possible and I have tested it so I beg to differ ...


When you use this method there is no wim file, hence the boot is not done from memory.

oh. you are right.

grettings

kyor

So it can or cannot be done... i know from hd it can be done, but i could not get it to work for cd

I'm curious ... why would you not load it into memory?

Like ubernerd said: You can do it. Follow the steps from Walkthrough: Boot Windows PE from Hard Disk and at step 4 (BCDEdit) you need to replace partition=C: through boot. Got this information from Readme.rtf of WAIK.

Martin

I got the cd to boot, but after the blank screen with the progressbar that scrolls from left to right, i have a black screen...anyone know why?

Normally it's a VGA driver problem that causes this.

If you are testing on vmware using a RC build of Vista/WinPE 2.0 you will properly run into this problem, but you can force vmware to use 640x480 by editing the vmx file and insert svga.maxwidth="640" and svga.maxheight="480".

what doesn't make sense is that the exact same image on the c drive works perfectly fine...but put that image on cd or dvd and you get stuck at a black screen

it would almost seem as if the image has to be writeable...it only works on write enabled media...hdd-ram, etc

What kind of customizations did you make to the image ?

none...

Are you using the FBWF driver to make the CD appear as a writable media?

No how do i do that