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<p><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Hi , Dear IPXE developer</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif"> I have the config issue for load the root img from IPXE ,can you help me to take a look at my questions</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">my network infrastructure is as following </font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">linux server with dhcp /tftp/http-----ethernet switch ------------test machine</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">the work flow is :</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">UEFI BIOS use the ipxe to download the elilo.efi ,then elilo.efi check for the cocnfig file to ,execute the config file and start to boot the system </font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">this is a special elilo.efi ,it will chekc the EFILINUX.CONF </font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">[l2plclient@telinuxmtsnbk ~]$ cat /data/14-03-12/791206YY.EK5/EFILINUX.CFG</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">TIMEOUT 80000</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">LABEL SHELL</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif"> KERNEL pxe/shell.efi</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">LABEL LOCAL</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif"> LOCALBOOT 0</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">LABEL LNXBOOT</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif"> KERNEL product/common/ramdisk/rh64vmlinuz</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif"> APPEND initrd=product/common/ramdisk/rh64_02042014_initrd imgurl=ftp:product/common/ramdisk/rh64rootimg_02262014.gz panic=20 rdblacklist=nouveau nomodeset EFI</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">DEFAULT LNXBOOT</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">[l2plclient@telinuxmtsnbk ~]$</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">above config is ok and boot the system successfully </font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">when I want to translate the booting process to support the </font><font size="2" color="#FF0000" face="sans-serif"><b>legacy PXE machine</b></font><font size="2" face="sans-serif"> ,it failed as following ,I am not sure if ipxe can directly to support the rootimg as above example or not ,</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">and also ,I do think that is the elilo or ipxe config issue ,can you help to pay some time to check with it ,thank</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">I put the elilo.conf file under the tftp root directory and http root directory ,but still not work</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">[root@desktop8 ~]# cat /var/lib/tftpboot/elilo.conf</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">TIMEOUT 80000</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">LABEL SHELL</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif"> KERNEL pxe/shell.efi</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">LABEL LOCAL</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif"> LOCALBOOT 0</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">LABEL LNXBOOT</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif"> KERNEL rh64vmlinuz</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif"> APPEND initrd=rh64_02042014_initrd imgurl=http://172.17.8.254/rh64rootimg_02262014.gz panic=20 rdblacklist=nouveau nomodeset</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">DEFAULT LNXBOOT</font><br>
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