<div dir="ltr">Hello Jarrod, <br>Yes. I used esxboot-x64.efi from xcat. I have not noticed error about BOOTIF or something else when booting. <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>Thanks,<br>yixuan</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 2:50 AM, Jarrod Johnson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jarrod.b.johnson@gmail.com" target="_blank">jarrod.b.johnson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div>That's weasel complaining. Did you mayhaps see an error about BOOTIF or something during boot? <br><br></div>You might consider trying the substitute esxboot efi executable:<br><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/xcat/files/yum/xcat-dep/esxboot-xcat-1.0.0-2.noarch.rpm/download" target="_blank">http://sourceforge.net/projects/xcat/files/yum/xcat-dep/esxboot-xcat-1.0.0-2.noarch.rpm/download</a><br>
</div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Yixuan Huang <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yixuan178@gmail.com" target="_blank">yixuan178@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>hello all,<br></div>when i used https to load esxi 5.1 installer with ipxe, kernel(tboot.b00) and other files can be downloaded by ipxe through https. <br>
9.119.47.207 - - [16/Jul/2013:12:31:01 +0800] "GET /maint/b.b00 HTTP/1.1" 200 55284 "-" "iPXE/1.0.0+"<br>
9.119.47.207 - - [16/Jul/2013:12:31:01 +0800] "GET /maint/useropts.gz HTTP/1.1" 200 20 "-" "iPXE/1.0.0+"<br>9.119.47.207 - - [16/Jul/2013:12:31:02 +0800] "GET /maint/k.b00 HTTP/1.1" <a href="tel:200%202648864" value="+862002648864" target="_blank">200 2648864</a> "-" "iPXE/1.0.0+"<br>
<br></div>But when read installation script, it will fail. error message windows shows:<br></div>error (see log for more info):<br>Error copying / downloading file<br></div>Error (see log for more info):<br></div>Error connecting to the network<br>
</div>Did not get an IP address from DHCP server. <br><br>I used 'esxboot-x64.efi -c /maint/boot.cfg.install ks=<a href="http://xx.xx.xx.xx/maint/ULDR/esxi5host" target="_blank">http://xx.xx.xx.xx/maint/ULDR/esxi5host</a>' to load ks.cfg in ipxe shell.<br>
</div><br></div>Any workaround to load correct ks.cfg for esxi installer, in static ip environment. <br><br></div>Thanks,<br>Eugene<br><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><br>
<div><div><div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>Thanks,<br>yixuan</div><div><div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:55 PM, Yixuan Huang <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yixuan178@gmail.com" target="_blank">yixuan178@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello Jarrod,<br></div><div>I have tested http, result seems okay for me. one more update, i install esxi5.1 build 1065491. <br></div><div>I am testing https as well.<br></div><div>So ftp issue seems present for me. <br>
</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>Thanks,<br>yixuan</div><div><div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Jarrod Johnson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jarrod.b.johnson@gmail.com" target="_blank">jarrod.b.johnson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div>In my experience in chainbooting ipxe, I've found the underlying nic to influence things significantly. <br><br></div>Additionally, xCAT patches esxboot. <a href="http://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/code/16978/tree/xcat-dep/trunk/esxboot/" target="_blank">http://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/code/16978/tree/xcat-dep/trunk/esxboot/</a>. I don't think *performance* should be an issue if you observe it actually using non-tftp, but provided for completeness.<br>
<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Yixuan Huang <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yixuan178@gmail.com" target="_blank">yixuan178@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>hello guys,<br></div>not sure if here is the right place to raise my concern. <br>
</div>when i used ipxe to load esxboot.efi -c boot.cfg ks=<a href="ftp://xx/esxi5" target="_blank">ftp://xx/esxi5</a><br>
</div></div>I can see esxi installer has been loaded, and small size file has been downloaded, but when load s.v00 which is 117MB, it will be very slow. when i switch to ftp window, it shows only 20kb which is down from 1MB/s in my environment. <br>
</div>I have used two ftp server, both are similar. <br></div>have you met that issue? how to resovle? when i used xcat through http, works fine. <br><br></div>some problem for esxi installer ?<br><div><div><div><div><div>
<div><div><div><div><div><div><br><br clear="all"><div>Thanks,<br>yixuan</div>
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