Need help with LiveXP SDI from PXE, PXE, Winbuilder External links Options

[ylafont]

I have created a Winbuilder SDI image and placed in my PXE server. The image donwloads to the workstation tries to boot and gives the me the"NTLDR is compressed" errors. I purposely tool the files out of the image to make sure it was the problem and now i get "NTLDR is missing", which is a good thin. I have tried all the NTLDR loaders files that i know of. XP, 2003 server and 2003 server with SP1. Am i missing something? can anyone point me in right direction? Please let me know.

Winnt.sif
[SetupData]
BootDevice="ramdisk(0)"
BootPath="\i386\System32\"
OsLoadOptions="/noguiboot /fastdetect /minint /rdexportashd /rdpath=\i386\BootSDI.img"

PXE Default file
LABEL Windows Live
MENU LABEL Windows Live
MENU LABEL Windows Live
KERNEL memdisk
append initrd=\i386\BootSDI.img

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[ylafont]

I have created a Winbuilder SDI image and placed in my PXE server. The image donwloads to the workstation tries to boot and gives the me the"NTLDR is compressed" errors. I purposely tool the files out of the image to make sure it was the problem and now i get "NTLDR is missing", which is a good thin. I have tried all the NTLDR loaders files that i know of. XP, 2003 server and 2003 server with SP1. Am i missing something? can anyone point me in right direction? Please let me know.

Winnt.sif
[SetupData]
BootDevice="ramdisk(0)"
BootPath="\i386\System32\"
OsLoadOptions="/noguiboot /fastdetect /minint /rdexportashd /rdpath=\i386\BootSDI.img"

PXE Default file
LABEL Windows Live
MENU LABEL Windows Live
MENU LABEL Windows Live
KERNEL memdisk
append initrd=\i386\BootSDI.img

I am sorry, i think i posted this on the wrong forum by accident.

[maanu]

well i guess ,

\i386\setupldr.bin , should work .

i have never used pxe stuff myself , so dont know really how it works .

kindly RECHECK , that u have setupldr.bin and ntdetect.com from the windows server 2k3 sp1.
u could rename setupldr.bin to ntldr ,and copy it to root as well as ntdetect.com and see if u could go through it .

also try mapping ur whole iso via modded memdisk icecube posted here ,

http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...art=#entry70059

make a new iso with bootsi method , and try to load the iso with the above method .

[was_jaclaz]

I am sorry, i think i posted this on the wrong forum by accident.

Moved to TFTP32 Forum, where most of PXE thingies are discussed, though possibly it should go on LiveXP Forum.

I have created a Winbuilder SDI image and placed in my PXE server. The image donwloads to the workstation tries to boot and gives the me the"NTLDR is compressed" errors. I purposely tool the files out of the image to make sure it was the problem and now i get "NTLDR is missing", which is a good thin. I have tried all the NTLDR loaders files that i know of. XP, 2003 server and 2003 server with SP1. Am i missing something? can anyone point me in right direction? Please let me know.

Usually (actually rarely when we are talking about MS error messages ) an error message telling that NTLDR is compressed means that NTLDR is compressed.

Is the image actually a NTFS compressed image?
Did you "fiddle" with it?
Did you apply compression to the whole image?
(you should uncompress selectively the NTLDR, but the one used in "normal" PXE booting is outside the image)

Read this thread:
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=4952
AND links therein.

You need either of two specific set of files (Server 2003 SP1 or R2, NOT XP , NOT Server 2003 "gold", NOT SP2).

You don't normally use memdisk as a kernel to load a NT based system build.

You use

Expand SETUPLDR.EX_ from the CD-ROM's i386 directory to file D:\TFTPDRoot\NTLDR
(NOTE! The file is renamed to NTLDR WITHOUT any extension!)
Expand STARTROM.CO_ from the CD-ROM's i386 directory to file D:\TFTPDRoot\startrom.com
Expand STARTROM.N1_ from the CD-ROM's i386 directory to file D:\TFTPDRoot\startrom.n12

see here:
http://krokodox.winbuilder.net/PXE.html

Or am I getting your report wrong?

Also check the tutorials here:
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=1961



jaclaz

[Nuno Brito]

Hi ylafont,

Please modify the topic title to something more meaningful, like "Need help with LiveXP SDI from PXE" or similar.

Otherwise it might pass unnoticed (as Jaclaz mentioned) to LiveXP developers or members with more experience booting LiveXP from PXE.

[diddy]

@ylafont

My own LiveXP based image works using the following -

winnt.sif contents

CODE

[SetupData]
BootDevice = "ramdisk(0)"
BootPath = "\i386\System32\"
OsLoadOptions = "/noguiboot /fastdetect /minint /rdpath=\I386\PE.IMG"

pxelinux configuration file (default) contents

CODE

LABEL livexp
MENU LABEL LiveXP (RamLoad)
KERNEL startrom.0

Files - all from Windows 2003 Service Pack 1 source

• setupldr.ex_ - extract file from cab archive and rename to ntldr
• startrom.n1_ - extract file from cab archive and rename to startrom.0
• NTDETECT.COM

Hope this helps

diddy