Adding Hiren’s BootCD PE to Advanced Menu

[Scott B]

I wondered if anyone has had luck adding the newer Hiren’s BootCD PE disk to boot from FOG’s advanced menu. This is a community updated version of the old Hiren’s boot CD based on Windows 10x64.

[Valer]

I would also be interested. You have tried this tutorial?

Include any ISO in the FOG Bootmenu - Hirens

[Scott B]

@Valer said in Adding Hiren’s BootCD PE to Advanced Menu:

ould also be interested. You have tried t

I have, but the “new” Hirens seems to require something different.

[AllenYoest]

I managed to get it working using the Windows PE instructions provided here:

https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/10944/using-fog-to-pxe-boot-into-your-favorite-installer-images/17

[Scott B]

@AllenYoest said in Adding Hiren’s BootCD PE to Advanced Menu:

I managed to get it working using the Windows PE instructions provided here:

https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/10944/using-fog-to-pxe-boot-into-your-favorite-installer-images/17

Good link. I hadn’t seen that one before. That helped me get further than I have. Almost boots, but I get an error after it starts.

Resource exceeds length of file
Emulating drive 0x01
FATAL: no bootmgr.exe
Press a key to reboot...

[george1421]

@Scott-B Understand that link is for BIOS based computers. I might expect the UEFI mode computers will need a bit different boot kernel.

Looking at that error message again, why is it asking about bootmgr.exe that is a “MS Windows” thing. The Rescue CD of the link appears to be booting a linux (variant) kernel.

[emreunal]

Tested and working configuration for Hiren’s BootCD PE x64 (v1.0.1)

set tftp-path tftp://${fog-ip}
set pe-path ${tftp-path}/os/winpe
kernel ${tftp-path}/wimboot gui
imgfetch --name BCD http://${fog-ip}/hbcd/Boot/BCD BCD
imgfetch --name boot.sdi http://${fog-ip}/hbcd/Boot/boot.sdi boot.sdi
imgfetch --name boot.wim http://${fog-ip}/hbcd/sources/boot.wim boot.wim
boot || goto MENU

Dont forget to change the BCD, boot.sdi, boot.wim locations.

[Truetus]

The only way I was able to make it work was by loading the whole ISO file.

:hbcd
initrd http://${fog-ip}/images/tools/hbcd/HBCD_PE_x64.iso
chain memdisk iso raw ||
boot || goto start

by using the WinPE method I was able to boot but it couldnt find bootmgr in the wim file. I then tried to define the bootmgr and I was then getting errors regarding not being able to patch the wim file. in the end I just tried loading the whole Iso like with dban and lo and behold it worked, though it then limits you to a 2gb ram minimum setup.

[seppim]

@truetus Hello,

I tried also to boot the Hirens BootCD and same problem with bootmgr

Maybe someone has the correct option?

To boot the complete ISO takes a quit longer time, right?

Thank you!

[Quazz]

@seppim If you load it over http like in the example it should be quite fast. I use the same method, works fine.

[george1421]

@seppim While I don’t use hiren’s software, let me download the iso and see what has changed. I know it worked at one time.