egorss78 Posted September 3, 2009 Share Posted September 3, 2009 Will try to explain this as best as I can. We currently do this with an XP based build we use.We currently copy a couple boot files and a bootable ISO to a machine, reboot that machine and have it load into a WinPE RAM setup and use some custom script to reimage the machine.We want to replicate this setup in a vista enviornment, which looks like I need to tweak BCDEdit and use a wim instead of an ISO. What I want to know is if anyone knows how to use BCDEdit to just replace the default boot device with an existing WIM image. I have found many articles that talk about adding a menu item to the boot menu to get this effect, but this requires a unquie GUID on each machine setup, hoping there is a general way to say to the machine "Boot from this WIM next time, regardless of anything else"So the idea is I could copy a wim file to the local machine, run a script to modify BCDEdit, reboot the machine in a PE environment.Any ideas? Thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atheros Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 (edited) use the files from the source cd. much easier tbh, %cdrom%\boot (and all its subdirectories)%cdrom%\EFI (and all its subdirectories)%cdrom%\bootmgrmake a folder called sourcesin that folder rename your wimfile to be boot.wimthe wimfile must be a bootable wim file (like all pe images)the drive must be FAT32 though. otherwise it will not work.as for BCD part. there is a new tool with win7 called BCDBOOT. i run the following commandBCDBOOT.EXE %other path for windows% /S C:dont klnow if that will help ya though but is a thought Edited September 8, 2009 by Atheros Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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