Also rc.d? Just make sure that configuration file is not lost if it is necessary for windows. Notes: The PXE article already describes most of this stuff, no need for duplication.
Simply burn winpe.iso onto a CD, and you can boot from it. It may take some time to boot (10 to 20 seconds is not uncommon, depending on your USB key) because the loader seems to copy some/all data to RAM. If you have prepared a USB key for UEFI systems according to the guide above, it should just boot. See Category:Hypervisors for a list of available virtualization software. Be sure to give it adequate memory, definitely more than the size of the ISO, since Windows PE runs from memory. Run a virtual machine with winpe.iso attached as a CD-ROM.
The UEFI firmware should find the FAT partition and load the /efi/boot/boot圆4.efi boot file provided by Windows to boot from the USB key.Īfter creating a bootable ISO of Windows PE ( winpe.iso) as described in the previous section, you may want to boot Windows PE in the following ways: That is right: no syslinux or grub magic needed. You can now umount all ISO and the USB key, your USB key is ready to boot. Mount the winpe.iso file created by mkwinpeimg, mount your USB key, and copy everything:įinally, mount the original Windows ISO image and copy all boot files in efi: (fdisk) 1 # Type 1 is "EFI System Partition" (fdisk) n # Create new partition, leave all parameters as default (fdisk) g # Create a new GPT partition table This can be done interactively with cfdisk or through fdisk: On a USB key, create a GPT partition table with a single FAT32 partition of type "EFI System". It is unknown whether an UEFI system would boot a x86 image of Windows this way. This guide has only been tested with 圆4, i.e. Warning: Make sure you selected an appropriate architecture for your Windows ISO image (x86 or 圆4).
But we can build such a UEFI system easily: Windows 10 installation ISO already contain the necessary UEFI boot files. Unfortunately, as of version 1.13.1-1 of wimlib, mkwinpeimg cannot build a bootable UEFI system. Prepare a bootable Windows PE USB key for UEFI systems See the mkwinpeimg(1) for more information, including the -overlay option to copy files into the image. $ mkwinpeimg -iso -waik-dir=/media/winimg -start-script=start.cmd winpe.iso $ mkwinpeimg -iso -windows-dir=/media/winimg -start-script=start.cmd winpe.iso Option A: source image is Windows installation media Use the mkwinpeimg script provided with wimlib to create a bootable Windows PE ISO winpe.iso, with the startup script created in the previous section: Once you have obtained a Windows installation image or WAIK/WADK image, you need to mount it. Windows PE occupies only around 118MB of the image. Tip: It may be possible to use httpfs to avoid downloading the entire image file. Since Windows 8, WAIK has been renamed to WADK and is distributed via adksetup.exe. For up to Windows Vista/7, it can be obtained as a standalone WAIK distribution from Microsoft. Option B: a Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) image.It can be downloaded freely on Microsoft website: Windows 10 ISO. Option A for Windows 7 and later: a Windows installation ISO / disk image.Mkwinpeimg can create a bootable Windows PE ISO from a variety of sources.
You may want to do this to add additional Windows applications that you want to run in Windows PE, or to add any additional drivers that Windows PE needs (drivers can be loaded using the drvload command within Windows PE).
See the manual page for mkwinpeimg for more information. The mkwinpeimg script supports making further modifications to Windows PE using -overlay option. To boot into a command prompt, create a startup script, which will be included into the bootable image in the next step: you need to run a Windows environment to run Win32 programs, you do not have a Windows machine available, and you do not want to use Wine or the programs will not run correctly with Wine.This may be because you do not have a Windows-based server, or you prefer using a Linux server because of its improved security and configurability, or you are already using a Linux server for other purposes.
you need to install Windows from the network, or boot Windows PE from the network for system administration, using an Arch Linux-based server.However, it is also possible to create and modify images of Windows PE using an (Arch) Linux machine, and optionally publish them on the network for PXE booting. Normally, an image of Windows PE can only be created using the Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) on a Windows machine. The specified server cannot perform the requested operation 2.4 Prepare a bootable Windows PE USB key for UEFI systems.