wimboot and windows 8.1

[mcb30]

(2013-07-05 08:04)dann23 Wrote:  I want to boot windows 8.1 using pxe and wimboot but I get some errors that it can't find bootmgr.exe. This happens if I'm using the files from windows 8.1 like is described in the documentation.
If I'm using the bootmgr.exe and the rest of the files from windows 7 then I can get past this message but it bsod with error 0x0000001a. This means memory management error.
Can someone help?
Thank you.

wimboot has not been tested with Windows 8.1. What's probably happening is that Microsoft have yet again changed the compression scheme they use inside bootmgr, meaning that wimboot's heuristics can't find the embedded copy of bootmgr.exe within bootmgr.

If you can track down a Windows 8.1 copy of bootmgr.exe, you could try replacing the line

Code:

initrd bootmgr bootmgr

with

Code:

initrd bootmgr.exe bootmgr.exe

Michael