Hi all,

I have a SPECIFIC PXE booting solution in mind but I'm missing a little bit of DOS knowledge to make it work. Here is the situation:

I want to have PXE as the first boot option in BIOS on my workstations; from PXE I boot WINPE which loads a menu script, giving you 3 options: Windows, linux and boot from hard drive. If you choose windows or linux, Ghost.exe is started with a parameter that either PUSHES a Windows or Linux IMAGE, depending on your choice.

If you choose 'boot from hard drive', it simply has to load the OS that is on the HDD (windows in most cases). However this means that I somehow have to insert a section in my DOS script that loads the OS from the hard drive and I have no idea how to do this; googling hasn't really helped so far.

Is there anyone that has experience with this and could point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance!if your version of Windows (which you conspicuously don't state) is any NT family OS (Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7 etc) you simply cannot START it from MS-DOS. However, if I read your query correctly, you aren't running "DOS" at all, but a command prompt in Windows PE. You can't boot an installed Windows from PE either. You MIGHT be able to do something with Grub4DOS. For the benefit of all it would help you the OP would explain what PXE is and why it should control the boot process.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preboot_Execution_Environment

As ST stated, GRUB is the most universal boot loader for use on desktop computers and there is one version for DOS.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_GRUB