Search options

damn, that patch fyyre made doesnt work anymore with sp1 rc wave1 which came out this week, hope he updates it...

UPDATE - made a manual sp1 rc wave1 slipstream (not reverse integration but with dism) guide here:
http://forums.mydigitallife.info/thread … post337159

silly me, its quite simple really, {default} entry in every bcd file on install dvd is for either winpe or setup (even in wim images), and windows entry gets automaticaly created during install (and then set to {default} one) with a unique guid so it cant be known in advance...

BUT {globalsettings} entry exist from the start with same guid, and all new entries inherit setting from it, so i will now try to:

1.) run bcdedit commands in winpe pass for {globalsettings}
UPDATE: didnt try it, cause you lose repair and upgrade options (only fresh install) when exist winpe pass in answer file

2.) edit {globalsettings} in ALL bcd files on install dvd (including inside images)
UPDATE: edited d:\boot\bcd and added another one to dvd:\sources\$OEM$\$$\Boot\DVD\PCAT to overwrite install.wim's, was to lazy to inject the last one in boot.wim also - but didnt and wouldnt work anyway, see below why

3.) add a bcd file with edited {globalsettings} from already installed windows to dvd:\sources\$OEM$\$1\Boot folder to overwrite the setup's one
UPDATE: setup creates a completely NEW bcd file and it gets succesfuly overwriten from $oem$ in offlineservicing pass, but AFTER all files get copied it creates random guids for a couple of entries so i ended up with duplicates - this method works, just delete "Windows 7", "Windows Resume Application", "Windows Recovery Environment" and "Ramdisk Options" from bcd in $oem$

only other alternatives to 3. would be a way to add bcd commands to offlineservicing pass or finding a script which creates a new bcd file (its not from any of the already existing bcd's on install dvd)

NOW, as you can see from batch files in my previous post, the peauth service must be stopped or it bsods already installed windows on logon and hangs up the setup on first logon too (and after restart it WONT continue) - i added the commands in serialize pass BUT they dont get executed soon enough, so i am at the end of my witts here and changing registry in install.wim just seems like too much work

here is a fix for unsigned drivers in final version of win 7 x64 ONLY (but may work in others/newer), so you dont have to use f8 on every startup anymore AND you dont get test mode message on desktop (without even patching user32.dll and its mui)

http://fyyre.ivory-tower.de/projects/disable_pg_ds.rar

just follow instructions, or use one of my alternative methods below

1.) dont run 1.bat but manualy copy ntoskrnl.exe and winload.exe from windows\system32 to patch_temp folder (create it) where you extracted the files, run 2.exe and 3.bat and then this batch (you skip the new f8 option this way)

SC.exe stop peauth
SC.exe config peauth start= demand

BCDEdit.exe /set {default} path \Windows\System32\osload.exe
BCDEdit.exe /set {default} kernel ntkrnlmp.exe
BCDEdit.exe /set {default} TESTSIGNING ON
BCDEdit.exe /set {default} NOINTEGRITYCHECKS ON
BCDEdit.exe /set {default} loadoptions DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS

2.) do everything from above BUT dont run 3.bat and rename ntkrnlmp.exe and osload.exe to their original names (ntoskrnl.exe and winload.exe) and run this batch instead of previous one

SC.exe stop peauth
SC.exe config peauth start= demand

BCDEdit.exe /set {default} TESTSIGNING ON
BCDEdit.exe /set {default} NOINTEGRITYCHECKS ON
BCDEdit.exe /set {default} loadoptions DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS

now overwrite original files with patched ones from dual boot, recovery console, some livecd, usb boot or any other method when they are not in use...

UNATTENDED INSTALL:

you can inject the patched files directly into install.win or simply add them to dvd:\sources\$OEM$\$$\System32 folder (yes, they overwrite the originals if from second alternative) - but the problem is that i dont know how to access the windows boot store from winpe pass (bcdedit commands change winpe's bcd, not windows's) and offlineservicing pass doesnt support adding commands (not that i know of anyway?), so if anyone knows the solution to either of those problems OR which bcd file on install dvd to manualy edit (so we dont even need those batch commands) then we can get a TRULY silent install with unsigned drivers...

P.S. boot record MUST be changed prior to first restart, otherwise windows throws an unsigned security error for patched winload.exe (only if from second alternative) AND you cant even access f8 anymore (yes, you can then enter bcdedit commands from recovery console, but thats not unattended anymore) - if from first alternative, just name its batch file as setupcomplete.cmd and put it in dvd:\sources\$OEM$\$$\Setup\Scripts folder, it gets run on its own just before first logon

okay, wasn't lazy, did a little research, it is possible after all, and in a number of ways even...

METHOD 1 (too long):

first, you HAVE to dism mass storage drivers (and lan - if you enabled network for pe in answer file) into boot.wim (2nd index only needed for setup) cause it runs completely from memory and copies nothing to hdd (and dvd drive could be ANY letter at this point) - it is equivalent to integrating them in I386 folder as before for xp

but know that the injected drivers are automaticaly expanded within image, and multiple copies of them are kept separately if there are more than one .inf files per folder (or multiple entries in a single *.inf), so integrate only boot critical drivers this way (chipset, storage and lan) or your image may not fit on a dvd - and you can actualy run out of ram when booting from it

mount image (must be writable, so copy to hdd first):
Dism /Mount-Wim /WimFile:C:\test\boot.wim /Index:2 /MountDir:C:\test\offline

remove old drivers (skip if this is the first time):
Dism /Image:C:\test\offline /Remove-Driver /Driver:OEM1.inf /Driver:OEM2.inf ...  /Driver:OEM99.inf
(how ever many there are third party drivers in C:\test\offline\Windows\Inf folder, you cant uninstall default ones)

inject all the drivers from C:\D folder, including in subfolders and even unsigned ones:
Dism /Image:C:\test\offline /Add-Driver /Driver:C:\D /Recurse /ForceUnsigned

dismount image (and then replace boot.wim from where you got it):
Dism /Unmount-Wim /MountDir:C:\test\offline /Commit

second, you create a $OEM$\$$\Inf\D folder INSIDE sources folder on install dvd/usb (not in root anymore) and add ALL the drivers there (dvd:\sources\$OEM$\$$\Inf\D) - they get automaticaly copied to C:\Windows\Inf\D folder during install (and windows already searches for drivers there on its own, including subfolders), only needed ones also get copied to windows driverstore folder, so you can safely delete C:\Windows\Inf\D after install if you wish

METHOD 2 (but only for vista/2008 with any integrated service pack, or 7 and 2008 R2):

at install windows automaticaly searches ALL the available drives for $WinPEDriver$ folder (not $WinPEDriverS$) in its root, so copy only boot critical drivers there (dvd:\$WinPEDriver$), they can be in subfolders too and are used during the whole install

but beware not to run out of ram as before, cause WinPE doesnt have anywhere else to keep its driverstore folder but memory

also - if a driver fails to inject in boot.wim with dism tool (as in previous method) the setup WILL fail if you put it in $WinPEDriver$ folder, so i suggest that you test all the drivers with dism FIRST (you can see the failed ones in C:\Windows\Logs\DISM\dism.log file) and move the bad ones to dvd:\sources\$OEM$\$$\Inf\D folder (as in previous method)

winpe supports cabbed drivers - but i had to expand some to work with dism (only 2 or 3 out of ALL the available driverpacks, but just one can f*ck you up)

METHOD 3 (too large):

forget everything from above and in the answer file for install.wim image, under Microsoft-Windows-Setup in WinPE pass just set UseConfigurationSet to true - now you have a system variable %configsetroot% which always points to the drive containing autounattend.xml in its root (doesnt need to be the install drive)

add the %configsetroot%\your_drivers_path to Microsoft-Windows-PnpCustomizationWinPE as a device driver path, and they are immediately available from the very start

but know that ALL the files from %configsetroot% drive WILL be automaticaly copied to C:\Windows\configsetroot folder, which can safely be deleted afterwards

EDIT: corrected $OEM$\$$\Windows\Inf\D to $OEM$\$$\Inf\D (but $OEM$\$1\Windows\Inf\D would work too)