IPXE Wimboot UEFI

[jacoub]

(2015-03-10 10:20)robinsmidsrod Wrote:  If rom-o-matic.eu is slow or fails to build, or it's hard to understand what the options do, I would recommend you open up an issue on https://github.com/xbgmsharp/ipxe-buildweb/issues to improve it. Most of the options are somewhat explained by searching for the phrase on http://ipxe.org/.

My recommendation is to get a Linux VM set up so that you can build the binaries you need yourself without need of a third party. Personally I prefer Ubuntu LTS for that purpose, but you should be able to use anything you're familiar with, Linux Fedora, Arch, Gentoo, SUSE, etc.

Finally the site went up after several emails & I was able to Downloaded snponly.efi
Set DHCP option 67 to snponly.efi
Set DHCP 67 iPXE to http://192.168.30.1/liveUEFI.ipxe
the contents liveUEF.ipxe
#!ipxe
kernel wimboot
initrd bootmgfw.efi bootmgfw.efi
initrd boot/bcd BCD
initrd boot/boot.sdi boot.sdi
initrd win7/sources/boot.wim boot.wim
boot
These files were obtained from a live Windows 8.1 x64 DVD
I'm able to boot Windows 8.1x64 UEFI on VMWare Workstation 11
I failed to boot on both Physical machine & Hyper-V

Tried the same exercise using iPXEx64.efi it worked on VMWare but failed again both Physical & Hyper-V
Tried the same exercise using iPXEx32.efi it failed on all platforms

Any idea how to create a standard procedure to work on all VMWare, Physical & Hyper-v

For your information I used Microsoft Deployment Services "WDS" on Windows Server 2012R2 & imported all these live Windows 7, 8 & 8.1 even Acronis PE all products of Paragon & O&O and I was always able to boot both BIOS & UEFI using WDS. I'm trying to achieve the same using Wimboot any advices


Thanks in advance and best regards,
Jacoub