If this is not iPXE problem, then why booting WinPE via PXELinux works?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Tal Aloni <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tal.aloni.il@gmail.com">tal.aloni.il@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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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>
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<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>
<div style="FONT:10pt arial;BACKGROUND:#e4e4e4"><b>From:</b>
<a title="cychau@gmail.com" href="mailto:cychau@gmail.com" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">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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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Best regards,<br>Chau Chee Yang<br><br>