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PXE - Wimboot CPIO Magic error - bonkersGER - 2014-05-03 08:32

Hello,

I got a problem booting Windows 7 via PXE.

Here my configfile (pxelinux.cfg/default):
Code:
default menu.c32
prompt 0
timeout 100
ONTIMEOUT chainlocal
MENU TITLE PXE Boot Menu - bonkers-nas

LABEL local
        MENU LABEL Boot local hard drive
        LOCALBOOT 0

LABEL windows7
        MENU LABEL Windows 7 x64
        com32 linux.c32
        APPEND wimboot initrd=images/windows7/bootmgr,images/windows7/bcd,images/windows7/boot.sdi,images/windows7/boot.wim

My TFTp-Root:
Code:
drwxrwsrwx+  5 root users   4096 Mai  3 08:31 .
drwxr-xr-x  15 root root    4096 Apr 30 10:44 ..
drwxrwsrwx+  3 root users   4096 Mai  2 23:11 com32
drwxrwsrwx+  5 root users     66 Mai  3 08:56 images
-rwxrwxrwx+  1 root users  16872 Mai  2 23:10 linux.c32
-rwxrwxrwx+  1 root users  56292 Mai  2 21:52 menu.c32
-rwxrwxrwx+  1 root users  26474 Mai  2 21:50 pxelinux.0
drwxrwsrwx+  2 root users     28 Mai  2 21:51 pxelinux.cfg
-rwxrwxrwx+  1 root users 155792 Mai  3 08:31 vesamenu.c32
-rwxrwxrwx+  1 root users  11768 Mai  2 21:59 wimboot

Errormesage:
[Image: pxex4i9z.png]

RE: PXE - Wimboot CPIO Magic error - robinsmidsrod - 2014-05-19 09:09

The default build of PXELinux doesn't have support for automatically wrapping files as CPIO archives, so you'll need to do it manually. I would recommend you use iPXE/wimboot directly as mentioned in http://ipxe.org/howto/winpe instead.