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Why Esxi 6.5 or 6.7 fail to start setup GUI via iPXE
2019-12-19, 07:26
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RE: Why Esxi 6.5 or 6.7 fail to start setup GUI via iPXE
iPXE will only support booting efi files in efi environments, if there is no EFI to boot then there is nothing that can be done.
If there is an EFI that can be booted, but don't work with iPXEs standard stack, then that EFI has bugs that needs to be fixed:

workarounds for you:
* use iSCSI to boot an efi image, provided that ESX isn't lacking iSCSI support (another bug if so).
* abuse wimboots ability to create a virtual FS and run it from there, just send over bootx64.efi and all other files needed for the boot
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