[syslinux] Most efficient way of pxe booting windows pe
Lindgren Daniel
daniel.lindgren at tullverket.se
Tue Mar 29 06:50:07 PDT 2011
> We are using syslinux (memdisk) and gpxe already for a while.
> Also got a working winpe boot method by means of pxe. Which
> basicly is a dd of an 'recovery partition' where winpe.wim is on.
> That method isn't really the most efficient way, cause its
> loaded into memory twice.
>
> We are going to do a major windows 7 deployment soon and i'm
> looking for the most efficient way of booting a small winpe.
> Can anyone tell me the options and what is the best and most
> efficient method of today into booting a winpe.wim?
We're using PXELINUX with memdisk to boot a WinPE ISO (RAM disk,
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd799303(WS.10).aspx),
transferred by HTTP using gpxe. Takes about 15 seconds to transfer on a
LAN.
Our 64-bit ISO image is ~172 MB, even when loaded twice we're only
talking about ~350 MB RAM. Our Windows 7 machines have 2048-4096 MB RAM,
can't see the problem.
Cheers,
Daniel
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