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NOOB - 2012r2 - WDS - iPXE - synology - zophar - 2014-06-24 07:39
Hey everyone,
Please exuse me and I'm sure there is already a topic about my question but I can't find good answers to my question
So I have a microsoft environment and I like to use iPXE. I already have PXELINUX installed and this is working correctly. The problem however is that I didn't used syslinux 6 but version 5 because there were issues with booting on local disk. The other problem that I have is that ISO files are hanging on certain workstations, when googling I found iPXE but now I'm confused.
Questions
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- How do you implement iPXE in a Windows 2012r2 (user class is a policy now ?)
- Example of boot.php ?
- undionly.kpxe , where do I have to put this file ?
Environment
Windows 2012r2 and Windows 2012
MDT 2013
WDS
Many many thanks for sorting me out.
RE: NOOB - 2012r2 - WDS - iPXE - synology - robinsmidsrod - 2014-06-29 20:10
How to boot iPXE on Windows: http://ipxe.org/howto/msdhcp
Example of boot.php: http://ipxe.org/examples (it's just really a text file, you don't need to use PHP unless you want to do some dynamic scripting)
undionly.kpxe (in your TFTP server's exported root folder - check your TFTP server's documentation)
I'd also recommend you check out the getting started page on networkboot.org, it tries to decouple the complexity of WDS into its component parts (namely DHCP, TFTP and WDS-specific stuff).
Also, check out http://ipxe.org/howto/sccm and http://ipxe.org/howto/winpe if your intent is to install Windows clients with this setup.
RE: NOOB - 2012r2 - WDS - iPXE - synology - zophar - 2014-06-30 10:15
Environment
Windows 2012r2 dhcp server
VMWARE ESXi 5.5
MDT 2013
Trying to work with iPXE
Step 1
set option 066 (MDT 2013 WDS)
set option 067 - point to internal webserver (http://lisa/boot.php)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/z538ocp2v3n1gzv/ipxe-1.PNG
Step 2
User class - windows 2012r2 DHCP
boot\x64\undionly.kpxe
Copied the http://boot.ipxe.org/undionly.kpxe and put it in "\\mdt01a\d$\RemoteInstall\Boot\x64\undionly.kpxe"
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7qkgmnuft3efv9z/ipxe-2.PNG
https://www.dropbox.com/s/l18a19z0v5ktv2z/ipxe-3.PNG
Change the boot file with wdsutil
wdsutil /set-server /bootprogram:boot\x86\undionly.kpxe /architecture:x86
wdsutil /set-server /N12bootprogram:boot\x86\undionly.kpxe /architecture:x86
wdsutil /set-server /bootprogram:boot\x86\undionly.kpxe /architecture:x64
wdsutil /set-server /N12bootprogram:boot\x86\undionly.kpxe /architecture:x64
Example of boot.php
#!ipxe
dhcp
chain http://lisa/menu.ipxe
Result
iPXE initialising devices ...ok then 'reboots' iPXE
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6fumzb3aurw2f7b/ipxe-4.PNG