iPXE fails to boot anything

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(2013-02-21 22:18)robinsmidsrod Wrote:  memtest is a single binary application that is working in BIOS mode, that's why it's working without issues.

Not every Version works on every computer if booted with iPXE. The older versions (older than 4.0) usually work everywhere, the newer sometimes shows its blue background for a split second and then reboots the machine.

(2013-02-21 22:18)robinsmidsrod Wrote:  ISO files can't boot unless they are specifically made to work purely from a ramdisk that is loaded ONCE and then do not access the medium they are loaded from to fetch additional files.

This is interesting because I have the same setup with syslinux an a USB flash drive and as soon the iso is loaded in memory and I see memdisk detecting the boot sector from it I unplug the device and everything works just fine with the Image in RAM. I can even boot some Windows restore disks with it.

(2013-02-21 22:18)robinsmidsrod Wrote:  I'm surprised to hear that atih11.iso works using regular PXE/TFTP, but not using ipxe. How do you boot atih11.iso using regular PXE? Do you actually mean, using pxelinux and memdisk?

Exactly. This is my Menu File:
--> This is a german setup

Code:

UI /boot/syslinux/menu.c32

MENU MASTER PASSWD ###############

MENU TITLE #############

MENU MARGIN 0
MENU ROWS -9
MENU TABMSG
MENU TABMSGROW -3
MENU CMDLINEROW -3
MENU HELPMSGROW -4
MENU HELPMSGENDROW -1

MENU BACKGROUND /menu.png

MENU COLOR SCREEN 1;37;40    #FF000000 #00000000 std
MENU COLOR BORDER 34;40      #FFCCCCCC #FFCCCCCC all
MENU COLOR TITLE 31;7;47     #FFFF0000 #00000000 std
MENU COLOR SCROLLBAR 1;32;44 #FFFF0000 #00000000 std
MENU COLOR UNSEL 1;32;40     #FF00CC00 #00000000 std
MENU COLOR CMDMARK 1;5;36;40 #FFFF00FF #00000000 std
MENU COLOR CMDLINE 1;35;40   #FFFF00FF #00000000 std
MENU COLOR TABMSG 1;36;40    #FFFF00FF #00000000 std
MENU COLOR DISABLED 37;40    #FFCCCCCC #00000000 std
MENU COLOR SEL 1;33;44       #FFFF0000 #FFFFCCCC std
MENU COLOR HOTKEY 1;33;40    #FFFFFF00 #00000000 std
MENU COLOR HOTSEL 1;5;33;44  #FFFFFF00 #FFFFCCCC std
MENU COLOR HELP 1;33;40      #FFFF00FF #00000000 std

LABEL main
MENU LABEL [^1] Hauptmenü
TEXT HELP
Zurück zum Hauptmenü
ENDTEXT
KERNEL /boot/syslinux/menu.c32
APPEND /pxelinux.cfg/default

LABEL pmagic
MENU LABEL [^2] Parted Magic (29.01.2013)
TEXT HELP
Partitionstool mit Hardware Diagnosetools und Webbrowser
ENDTEXT
LINUX pmagic/bzImage
INITRD pmagic/initramfs
APPEND edd=off load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 rw vga=normal loglevel=9 max_loop=256

LABEL memtest
MENU LABEL [^3] Memtest86+ V4.10
TEXT HELP
Testet Arbeitsspeicher. Dieses Image enthält mehrere selektierbare Versionen.
Je nach System funktionieren nicht alle.
ENDTEXT
LINUX memdisk
INITRD floppy/memtest86.img
APPEND -

LABEL regedit
MENU LABEL [^4] Offline NT Password & Registry Editor 080802
TEXT HELP
Einfacher Registry Editor und Passwort Reset Tool
ENDTEXT
LINUX memdisk
INITRD iso/offntpassw.iso.gz
APPEND iso

LABEL tih
MENU LABEL [^5] Acronis True Image Home 2011
TEXT HELP
Erlaubt das Erstellen und Wiederherstellen von Images
ENDTEXT
LINUX memdisk
INITRD iso/atih11.iso
APPEND iso

LABEL hddreg
MENU LABEL [^6] HDD Regenerator
TEXT HELP
Testet Festplatten auf Fehler
ENDTEXT
LINUX memdisk
INITRD iso/hddreg.ISO
APPEND iso

LABEL shadowprotect
MENU LABEL [^7] Shadow Protect 4.0.5
TEXT HELP
Shadow Protect zur Erstellung und Wiederherstellung von Images
ENDTEXT
LINUX memdisk
INITRD iso/ShadowProtect.iso
APPEND iso

LABEL suisa-restore
MENU LABEL [^8] SUISA Virus remove CD
TEXT HELP
Unterstützt bei der Entfernung des SUISA/BKA Erpressungstrojaner
400 MB, lädt ca 5 Minuten
ENDTEXT
LINUX memdisk
INITRD iso/rettungs-cd.iso
APPEND iso

(2013-02-21 22:18)robinsmidsrod Wrote:  I think you should enable either serial or syslog logging so that you can post a log of what you experience with exact screenshots and error messages shown. Then we might be able to help you out more.

If you can tell me how to do it I can send you a log. I should have a serial cable and a machine with a serial telnet application around, so I just need some information on how to setup serial logging