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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I have tested the Dell Latitude E6400
and E6410 on the past,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>IIRC at least one of them is showing the described
issues even when booting Windows PE from tftp, this issue has nothing to do
with iPXE.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Regards,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Tal Aloni</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=cychau@gmail.com href="mailto:cychau@gmail.com">Chee-Yang Chau</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org
href="mailto:ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org">ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, November 29, 2011 2:38
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [ipxe-devel] Using iPXE to chain
load Windows PE shows blank screenin Dell notebook</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Hi,<BR><BR>I have both PC and Dell notebook in my LAN
environment. Both PC and Dell notebook supports PXE boot.<BR><BR>I
attempt to chain boot into Windows PE with SanBoot iscsi target:<BR><BR>1.
DHCP
<DIV>2. undionly.kpxe
<DIV>3. Press Ctrl-B to iPXE command line</DIV>
<DIV>4. set keep-san 1 </DIV>
<DIV>5. set skip-san-boot 1</DIV>
<DIV>6. sanboot iscsi-target</DIV>
<DIV>7. chain tftp://<A
href="http://192.168.0.1/windows.pe/pxeboot.0">192.168.0.1/windows.pe/pxeboot.0</A></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Boot PC using above steps does boot into Windows PE environment with
iscsi target available for Windows setup.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>However, Dell notebook using same steps boot the Windows PE too, but it
doesn't show the GUI screen as what PC does. I have tried 2 dell
notebook and both giving same result. My Windows PE image will show a
cmd windows after loading the Windows PE. The dell notebook doesn't show
anything and screen just blank. I try to type exit and press enter, the
notebook will reboot. I feel it did boot into Windows PE but doesn't
show the GUI screen.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>I then try another steps using PXE Linux:</DIV>
<DIV><BR>1. DHCP
<DIV>2. pxelinux.0</DIV>
<DIV>3. show menu "pxelinux.cfg/default"</DIV>
<DIV>4. kernel <A
href="http://windows.pe/pxeboot.0">windows.pe/pxeboot.0</A></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Both PC and Dell notebooks boot into Windows PE GUI environment and I can
see the GUI screen for notebook as well. </DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Both scenarios using same WinPE image. </DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>What could cause the notebook using iPXE to chain load WinPE shows blank
after booting?</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Thank you.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>-- <BR>Best regards,<BR>Chau Chee Yang<BR><BR></DIV></DIV>
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