wimboot, I'm stumped

[mecasull]

Im hoping i'm missing something particularly trivial here, I cant find the disconnect.

I didnt want to install iPXE directly on my networking card, so i settled on chainloading. I have my TFTP server set up, and can successfully PXE boot, pull the undionly.kpxe, and get to the IPXE> command line from ctrl + B.

from there, I decided for now i would manually direct to which setups i wanted to do until i better understood how to configure menus. I have my windows 7 installation media all unpacked and in a folder on a web server. (address 192.168.1.10/Win7) permissions are all set and i can access.

I followed the wimboot instructions and set up an boot.ipxe file *well, i named it W7.ipxe). So from the IPXE> command line i type the following and it hangs. so maybe its something in my W7.ipxe file?

Code:

IPXE> dhcp
configuring (blah blah blah)
IPXE> chain http://192.168.1.10/Win7/W7.ipxe
http://192.168.1.10/Win7/W7.ipxe... ok
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W7.ipxe is below (note ive tried using relative paths... my install files are in server/Win7/W7, ive tried moving them to server/Win7)

Code:

#!ipxe

  set wimboot-path http://192.168.1.10/Win7
  kernel ${wimboot-path}/wimboot
  initrd ${wimboot-path}/W7/bootmgr          bootmgr
  initrd ${wimboot-path}/W7/boot/bcd         BCD
  initrd ${wimboot-path}/W7/boot/boot.sdi    boot.sdi
  initrd ${wimboot-path}/W7/sources/boot.wim boot.wim
  imgstat
  boot

is something wrong with my file that i'm missing?

as an example, I tried this, with success:

Code:

IPXE> dhcp
configuring (blah blah blah)
IPXE> chain http://boot.ipxe.org/demo/boot.php

If i need to give more information, i gladly will. I'm at a loss for ideas..

Thanks for any help i can get!