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Using iPXE on installed on local drive to boot Windows from local drive
2016-02-16, 22:28
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RE: Using iPXE on installed on local drive to boot Windows from local drive
(2016-02-16 09:37)FreeMinded Wrote:  I'll have a deeper look at winboot. But on first sight it does not seem to do what we need

My follow-up questions now are:
1. Is there another way or hack to chainload the Windows Bootloader from iPXE?
2. Is there a way in Grub to have a different default selection if Grub is invoked for the second time (through the sanboot hack)?
3. Is there a way to hand over some variable to Grub from iPXE?

I guess this is now more a Grub than iPXE thing...

Thanks a lot for your help!

iPXE can only load "next stage" over the network.
Why would not wimboot be an option?

You could load a 3rd party bootloader such as "embeded" grub (that is grub with configfiles in the same file) or a floppy image that then do what you want - but once again this still needs to be loaded over the network, and wimboot is by far the cleaner solution.

It might even be possible to create a special BCD file and just have windows bootmgr.exe and the BCD file downloaded and that would then boot the correct partition.

But I have to ask, why are you even entering iPXE if what you want to do is to boot from local disk anyway?

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RE: Using iPXE on installed on local drive to boot Windows from local drive - NiKiZe - 2016-02-16 22:28



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