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Offline injection of hotfixes which service EFI boot files fails to service boot files

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Symptoms

Consider the following scenario:

You are using DISM to offline inject a hotfix into a WIM image, or directly into an offline image. The hotfix services boot files which reside on the EFI system partition such as bootmgrfw.efi. In this scenario, DISM reports that the fix has been successfully injected into the image, however, the boot files are not actually updated on the EFI system partition.

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Cause

The servicing stack assumes that Setup.exe will take care of updating any boot files on the EFI system partition during deployment. The servicing stack lacks the logic necessary to locate and service the EFI partition directly in offline servicing scenarios.

In the case where Setup is used to deploy, the EFI boot files will be updated by Setup. In the case where a generalized image which has had a hotfix which services the boot files injected into it offline is applied using tools such as DISM or another imaging tool, Setup will update the boot files after the first boot, (and therefore may still encounter any issues addressed by the hotfix on the first boot). In the case where a hotfix which services the boot files is applied offline to a fully deployed system with an existing EFI system partition, the boot files will not be updated until the hotfix is installed online or the specific binaries serviced by the hotfix are superseded by Windows Update or a later hotfix installed online. 

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Resolution

There are three options to resolve this issue:

  • You must inject the hotfix into the install.wim (on all image indexes) prior to running Setup.exe in order to have Setup properly deploy the updated boot files.
  • You may manually extract the boot files from the hotfix and manually copy them into place on the EFI partition.
  • You may apply the hotfixes online, for example during Audit mode. Online installation will successfully locate and service the EFI boot files.

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More Information

This is a known issue, and may be addressed in a future release of Windows.


Known hotfixes which require this workaround in offline injection scenarios at the time of writing this article. This list is subject to change:
999130

2822241

2770440

2770917

2765325

2756872

2756559

2757541


Known files which typically reside on the EFI boot partition which will be affected at the time of writing this article. This list is subject to change:
winload.efi

wdsmgfw.efi

hvloader.efi

winresume.efi

bootmgfw.efi

bootmgr.efi

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Article Info
Article ID : 2846298
Revision : 1
Created on : 1/7/2017
Published on : 7/5/2013
Exists online : False
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