[syslinux] PXE booting BartPE ISO file to Eee Pc

[Dyks, Axel (XL)]

Dyks, Axel (XL) wrote:
> cr4z3d wrote:
>> So I've been playing with this for hours and still unable to get everything
>> working properly. In short I'm trying to boot an ISO image created by BartPE
>> over pxelinux. When I attempt to do this it goes directly to a blank screen
>> that just has a blinking cursor. Here's what my setup looks like:
>>
>> pebuilder.iso - the ISO file created from BartPE using WinXP SP2 CD as
>> source but with ramdisk.sys and ramdisk.inf replaced (sys file in
>> i386\System32\Drivers inf in i386\INF) from an extracted Server 2003 SP1
>> download (used 7zip to extract)
>>
>> I've copied setupldr.exe into the root of my TFTP server and renamed it
>> ntldr. I also put startrom.com in there (renamed startrom.bs), ntdetect.com,
>> and winnt.sif.
>>
>> My winnt.sif file:
>>
>> [SetupData]
>> BootDevice = "ramdisk(0)"
>> BootPath = "\i386\System32\"
>> OsLoadOptions = "/noguiboot /fastdetect /minint /rdexportascd
>> /rdpath=pebuilder.iso"
>>
>> My pxelinux menu to boot startrom.bs:
>>
>> label bartacronis
>> MENU LABEL ^BartPE w/ Acronis
>> kernel startrom.bs
>>
>> Seems to just go to a screen with a blinking cursor and just hang there
>> forever. I have other things in my boot menu that all work fine so I'm
>> assuming it has to do with my BartPE setup. I've even tried telling DHCP to
>> hand out startrom.com as the file to boot from instead of pxelinux but
>> stilll get the same screen.
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
> 
> Inspecting the log from your TFTP server might reveal
> at which phase booting hangs ...
> 
> I remember that when trying almost the same thing with tftp-hpa
> on Linux the problem was due to TFTP on Linux not liking any
> backslash (\) characters as part of the filename or rather path.
> 
> I was able to resolve this issue by using the "-m" switch of "in.tftpd"
> and using the following "remap" file.
>> # (0) Make Windows Happy: Substitute "\" by "/"
>> rg      \\      \/
>>
>> # (1) Make Windows Happy: Convert everything to lowercase
>> # NOTE that -- as a consequence -- ALL files and folders
>> # below tftproot need to be lowercase
>> r       ^.*$    \L\0
> 
> Don't know, if this helps ...

Addition:
My winnt.sif looks like this:
> [SetupData]  
> BootDevice = "ramdisk(0)"  
> BootPath = "\i386\System32\"  
> OsLoadOptions = "/fastdetect /minint /rdpath=\os-images\winpe.iso /rdimageoffset=36352"

Don't know, if it is required to specify a fully qualified path (to a sub-folder in my case)
for the ISO image.

Also make sure that you use "startrom.n12" from "w2ksp1" and rename it to startrom.0