New iPXE couple of question

[jamesosbourn]

I am relatively new to IPXE and after being recommended have found it extremelu useful.

I have managed to get something working using the examples around but have a couple of issues.

Firstly when my menu times out of I select exist the local boot does not continue and I get "no more network devices" message and a brief press Ctrl+B for iPXE prompt and then it just sits there and never returns to the local bios boot.

Seondly I am trying to set up my boot menu for multiple other pxe servers and I cannot get my windows server to work.

I have a pxelinux.0 server chain working fine but the Widnows Deployment Server WDS boot is not working. If I boot directly from the WDS server it works fine.

I have an ISC DHCP server which is chainloading undionly.0 first to get the iPXE menu by looking the user-class value. This all works fine.

the code for the WDS server is

set 210:string tftp://10.80.16.16/
chain ${210:string}Boot\\x86\\wdsnbp.com || goto failed
goto start

This talks to the WDS server and downloads the inital wdsnbp.com file and then fails to boot. It appears to be still talking to the iPXE boot server

The actual output is
tftp://10.80.16.16/Boot%5C%5Cx86%5C%5Cwdsnbp.com... ok

Downloaded WDSNBP...

Architecture: x64
WDSNBP started using DHCP Referral.
Contacting server: 10.80.16.20 (Gateway: 10.80.224.1)..
no response from Windows Deployment Services server.
Launching pxeboot.com
TFTP download failedCould not boot: Error 0x00000001 (http://ipxe.org/00000001)
Booting failed,dropping to shell
Type exit to get the back to the menu
iPXE>

My iPXE server is 10.80.16.20 and the WDS server is 10.80.16.16

Does any one have any suggestion on what is happening and how to get it working.

Thanks

[robinsmidsrod]

Why don't you skip WDS and just boot the WinPE using wimboot?

http://ipxe.org/wimboot
http://ipxe.org/howto/winpe
http://ipxe.org/howto/sccm

If you need to forward to the traditional WDSNBP then there are other posts here on the forum that detail what you need to forward properly. This one might help: http://forum.ipxe.org/showthread.php?tid...41#pid8541

[ArneLovius]

if you have a working WDS implementation, then you could use wdslinux to chainload into iPXE

http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/WDSLINUX

[jamesosbourn]

That has been an option that I have looked at. However, after leaving it a while and going back a fresh I have managed to get the winboot to work to boot the wim images I have from MDT that I was booting from WDS.

James

(2013-06-11 15:31)ArneLovius Wrote:  if you have a working WDS implementation, then you could use wdslinux to chainload into iPXE

http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/WDSLINUX