bootmgfw.efi is not always in 1/Windows/Boot/EFI/bootmgfw.efi

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bootmgfw.efi is not always in 1/Windows/Boot/EFI/bootmgfw.efi

sebma opened this issue 5 years ago · comments

Hi,

There some cases where the bootmgfw.efi is not in 1/Windows/Boot/EFI/bootmgfw.efi :

$ time 7z l sources/install.wim | grep -i efi/bootmgfw.efi$
2010-11-21 04:24:16 ....A       672640       314792  6/Windows/Boot/EFI/bootmgfw.efi
2010-11-21 04:24:16 ....A       672640       314792  7/Windows/Boot/EFI/bootmgfw.efi
2010-11-21 04:24:16 ....A       672640       314792  8/Windows/Boot/EFI/bootmgfw.efi
2010-11-21 04:24:16 ....A       672640       314792  9/Windows/Boot/EFI/bootmgfw.efi

real	0m41.849s
user	0m54.248s
sys	0m6.604s

Can you detect the bootmgfw.efi file location inside the sources/install.wim such as :

$ efi_file=$(7z l sources/install.wim | grep -m1 -i efi/bootmgfw.efi$ | awk '{print$NF}')
$ echo $efi_file
6/Windows/Boot/EFI/bootmgfw.efi

And this to your script ?

Yoel Torres · Answer 1 · Wed Feb 06 2019 22:02:39 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Could you tell Windows version including architecture you are using when this happens?

sebma · Answer 2 · Thu Feb 07 2019 08:31:24 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@oneohthree Hi, sorry I couldn't reply sooner, but I just came back home.

It is taken from an All in one Windows7 SP1 x86 and x64 bits ISO.

Yoel Torres · Answer 3 · Fri Feb 08 2019 22:58:37 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Well, I didn't test against that type of ISO. I believe Microsoft didn't release multiarch Windows 7. In my opinion you should use 'official' ISOs by Microsoft.