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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Server 2012 or Server 2012 R2? Can you please share the wimboot portion of your ipxe script?<div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div>--Ian<br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: amit.shah@citrix.com<br>To: ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org<br>Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 21:01:25 +0000<br>Subject: [ipxe-devel] wimboot issue with server 2012 on physical servers<br><br>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal">Hi,</p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal">I am trying to install Windows Server 2012 on physical servers. Followed the instructions here
<a href="http://ipxe.org/wimboot" target="_blank">http://ipxe.org/wimboot</a>. After loading all the files I see a blank screen. I found several posts with this issue but with no definitive solution.
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal">http://forum.ipxe.org/showthread.php?tid=7085</p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal">http://forum.ipxe.org/showthread.php?tid=7121</p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal">http://lists.ipxe.org/pipermail/ipxe-devel/2013-January/002176.html</p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal">I added the missing font, made sure the bios is at latest, etc.</p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal">The same task works fine on a VM hosted on Xen but doesn’t work on a physical servers. These are some hardware details</p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;">"bios_vendor":"HP",</span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;">"bios_version":"P58",</span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;">"bios_release_date":"05/02/2011",</span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;">"manufacturer":"HP",</span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;">"productname":"ProLiant DL360 G5",</span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;">"serialnumber":"USE839N9CA",</span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;">"uuid":"33393935-3234-5553-4538-33394E394341",</span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;">"type":"Rack Mount Chassis"</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal">Are there any know issues ? Any help is appreciated.</p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal">Thanks</p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal">Amit </p>
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