Hiren's BootCD

[ghost]

Is it possible to add Hiren's BootCD (http://www.hirensbootcd.org/)? It boots fine with the unzipped iso but not the zip directly from the site itself.

[antonym]

The zip file didn't seem to play with memdisk nicely and it doesn't look like there's been development on the tool in a while. We could look into it if there was a hosted ISO.

[Enrico204]

The ISO seems to be available now, and the development has restored, so maybe this issue can be reopened @antonym ?

PS: direct ISO URL: https://www.hirensbootcd.org/files/HBCD_PE_x64.iso

[Sander0542]

I would love to see this in Netboot

[antonym]

Gave this a whirl a week ago, dumping notes here, appears that wimboot was looking for bootmgr.exe which was not present in the actual wim. I think we could get it working but would need that bootloader present. The bootmgr in the root of the ISO is not the one we would need either.

If anyone has cycles to dig in, it would be appreciated.

#!ipxe

set win_base_url https://github.com/netbootxyz/asset-mirror/releases/download/v1.0.1-0570770e/
imgfree
kernel https://boot.netboot.xyz/wimboot
initrd -n bootmgr ${win_base_url}/bootmgr       bootmgr ||
initrd -n bootmgr.efi ${win_base_url}/bootmgr.efi   bootmgr.efi ||      
initrd -n bcd         ${win_base_url}/BCD      bcd ||
initrd -n boot.sdi    ${win_base_url}boot.sdi boot.sdi ||
initrd -n boot.wim    ${win_base_url}boot.wim boot.wim

[lrdfrd]

any progress on this? been trying to get this to work as well and pointing to the supplied bootmgr and bootx64 doesn't seem to work,
cant wimboot load ISOs? why wouldn't we aim it at that? (been trying myself, haven't figured out the syntax)

[FM1337]

#!ipxe

set base-url <location-to-folder-containing-extracted-iso>

:start
menu Please choose an option:
item hirens Hirens Boot CD PE x64
item exit Exit
choose --default hirens --timeout 5000 selected
goto ${selected}

:hirens
echo Booting Hirens Boot CD PE x64...
imgfree
kernel https://boot.netboot.xyz/wimboot
initrd -n bootmgr ${base-url}/BOOTMGR       bootmgr ||
initrd -n bootmgr.efi ${base-url}/bootmgr.efi   bootmgr.efi ||      
initrd -n bcd         ${base-url}/boot/bcd  bcd||
initrd -n boot.sdi    ${base-url}/boot/boot.sdi  boot.sdi||
initrd -n boot.wim    ${base-url}/sources/boot.wim boot.wim
boot

:exit
exit

This got it booting for me. @lrdfrd @antonym