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I would like to setup my 3Com PXE server with two (or more) Windows Boot Managers.
(Probably not saying this right)

I have two groups of people who image computers. The first being student workers who image Loaner computers. Currently these computer’s MACs are defined in BootTab Editor to use WinPE (\boot\pxeboot.n12) as the Loaner image is the only image the system just kicks off imaging the Loaners. – This is great and I want it to continue to work this way.
Due to new hardware I need to move my professional staff over to use the WinPE boot environment. (Currently if the computers are not defined to use WinPE they use the old DOS preboot environment, mba.pxe).

I want to set it up so the students do not receive a menu, they only get the one image and have it start automatically – like they do now. And I want the professional staff to receive a list boot choices. Is there a way to setup two separate pxeboot.n12 areas?

I have tried defining separate directories when using the Ghost Boot Wizard and have tried using templates and also entering different paths for the image location in BootTab Editor. I either receive an error (PXE-T00: Unspecified file opening error detected) or see the list of boot images in \tftpboot\boot\.
I am leaving the boot images in the directory I entered in the Ghost Boot Wizard and just trying to tell 3Com to use it.

Also – is there a way to edit/view the .wim file? I’d like to know what parameters I used when creating a boot image. (ie; ghost.exe –colne, mode=restore….)

thanks

For students you can just copy contents of TFTProot/boot folder to TFTProot/Student folder and then change bootptab config to reflect this. For others just direct them to TFTProot/boot folder as before and have as many Winpe PXE configs as you like.

Parameters: you can edit WIM file but you need to download WAIK and muck around with it - not very simple task. You can also define ghost command line params when creating boot package in Ghost boot wizard.

Hope this helps.

I told the Ghost Boot Wizard to create the boot package/environment in C:\tftpboot\Student. GBW made all the necessary files in C:\tftpboot\student\boot.
In boottab editor I setup a test computer to use this area but the ‘log’ on the tftp server are;
tftp read c:\tftpboot\student\boot\pxeboot.n12
tftp read c:\tftpboot\student\boot\bootmgr.exe
tftp read c:\tftpboot\boot\fonts\wg_14boot.ttf
tftp read c:\tftpboot\student\boot\boot.ini
tftp read c:\tftpboot\boot\bcd
tftp read c:\tftpboot\boot\fonts\wg_14boot.ttf
tftp read c:\tftpboot\hiberfil.sys
tftp read c:\tftpboot\boot\bcd

it never seems to look at the bcd file in the \student\ directory.
i alwas get the 'menu' from\in c:\tftpboot\boot