Newbe

[vickersp]

Hi Guys

Sorry for being a newbe but i just stumbled across IPXE and thought it was exactly what im looking for.

Can anyone point me in the right direction on setting up my windows 2003 server to boot a wimpe.wim using IPXE.

My server is currently setup with DHCP and DNS. I use TFTPD32 and pxelinux.0 to distribute images of dos network floppy disks (img) and a winpe file.

Ok what i done so far surrounding IPXE:

I have successful followed the how to guide on http://ipxe.org/howto/chainloading

I have tried to follow the http://ipxe.org/howto/winpe

but get stuck when trying to load boot.ipxe from doing http://{my.actual.web.server}/winpe/boot.ipxe.

IPXE comes back with Error: DNS name does not exist

I then tried replacing the server name with its IP http://192.168.0.10/winpe/boot.ipxe. IPXE comes back with the error no file or folder exists.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[robinsmidsrod]

When iPXE comes back with an error at you, it shows you and error code (e.g. http://ipxe.org/0xabc4325). You should always go to that link first, as it contains information on why things failed, and can possibly give you an indication on how to troubleshoot things.

If you use your normal browser and navigate to this URL: http://192.168.0.10/winpe/boot.ipxe

Can you actually see the contents of the boot.ipxe text file you created? If not, then you need to create it at that location according to the tutorial at: http://ipxe.org/howto/winpe