ipxe boot windows 7 installer using wimboot - error

[robinsmidsrod]

If you followed http://ipxe.org/wimboot then it is just a short explanation of how to boot _any_ .wim file. It is unfortunate that the screenshot used is for the Windows 7 installer, because it makes it seem as you can just continue and it'll work. It won't. The files required by the installer is not inside boot.wim, and as such they need to be located somewhere. You can either insert the Windows 7 installer DVD locally, or provide the files required on an SMB/CIFS network share. The following howto explains how to do the latter: http://ipxe.org/howto/winpe