Surface Pro 3

Hi

Anyone tried booting with Win81SE on a Microsoft Surface Pro 3?

Built a 64-bit version and wrote to usb including grub2-efi

When trying to boot from the USB I get the default mountain splash come up - but no text on the screen, no menu etc and nothing happens

If I boot on another laptop it works fine

Any thoughts please

You may need to add surface 3 drivers.

You already have them in winre.wim.

Better to use that than the default boot.wim used by winbuilder.

You can trick it. Delete image 2 from boot.wim , then export image 1 from winre.wim into boot.wim. (Easiest to do it with gimagex)  Now run winbuilder.

https://www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit-tools/gimagex/

Thanks I will give it a try

You will need winre.wim from your current install, i.e on your hard drive.

Does anyone have an idea on how to copy Winre.wim in automatic by program, script from the hidden recovery partition in Win8, 8.1.
The hidden recovery partition has those attributes:
UEFI:
set id=de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac
gpt attributes=0x8000000000000001
BIOS:
set id=27

It should be copied with something like that:
copy \\?\Volume{1de8fce6-ea4c-11de-87bd-806e6f6e6963}\\Recovery\WindowsRE\boot.wim E:\Temp
how to retrieve the Guid of the recovery partition and those attributes?
the Guid partition is not available in diskpart. We can get it with Regaentc /info, moutvol.

Any idea ? It could be useful 

I normally use winre in my own projects. It should have machine specific drivers already, it also saves mucking around copying the rejuvenation stuff.  I have sent you a pm how I do it.

Thanks a lot to share it with me, I just tried it in 8.1 BIOS based, it worked nicely
I will try it later on UEFI fimware and try to understand your nice script
I'm fully agree with you, use Host WinRE.wim (if OS and arch match) instead of boot.wim is a good option for oem drivers, rejuvenation...

With that, it should be possible to build a custom WinPE/WinRE
by using also the Host files and without the need to use a windows ISO as source
You build may be already like that.

I can do it with win7 using only winre and files from the hard drive. No iso needed.

Haven't got it to work properly with 8.1, because it is hard to keep track of the enormous updates.

I understand for 8.1, these large updates (somehow the proof of windows 8.1 failure for desktop users) are not there to simplify the task.

good WE