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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hi Ian,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I have tried on a couple of physical servers (same types) and see same issue.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">After commenting initrd for BCD I do see an error screen (Recovery screen complaining about missing BCD).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I am not sure how do I run bcdedit without OS being loaded. Can you explain ?
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thanks a lot for your help.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Amit
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Ian Bannerman [mailto:ian@internals.io]
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 29, 2014 10:14 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Amit Shah; ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [ipxe-devel] wimboot issue with server 2012 on physical servers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Does the problem only happen on that machine, or do other, different, physical machines have the same problem? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Also, let's try to narrow down where things are going wrong. If you comment out the initrd for the BCD, do you see an error after everything is downloaded? If so, we know we're making it
 that far.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">If so, can you use bcdedit to enable the legacy menu: bcdedit /store <path to your bcd file> /set {default} bootmenupolicy legacy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">That will cause a few loading bars before you should see the Windows logo (which we're not reaching). What do you see in this case?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">--Ian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From:
<a href="mailto:amit.shah@citrix.com">amit.shah@citrix.com</a><br>
To: <a href="mailto:ian@internals.io">ian@internals.io</a>; <a href="mailto:ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org">
ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org</a><br>
Subject: RE: [ipxe-devel] wimboot issue with server 2012 on physical servers<br>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 01:25:58 +0000<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hi Ian,</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The new wimboot did solve the issue with Server 2012 R2 of “bootmgr.exe not found”. But even in this case I am left with a blank screen after all files finish
 loading. Also to re-iterate the same script works on a VM on xen but gives a blank screen on a physical server.</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thanks</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Amit
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Ian Bannerman [<a href="mailto:ian@internals.io">mailto:ian@internals.io</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 29, 2014 8:56 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Amit Shah; <a href="mailto:ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org">ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [ipxe-devel] wimboot issue with server 2012 on physical servers</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Ok, great. This should be pretty straightforward then. There were some changes to how bootmgr.exe was stored in bootmgr and wimboot was recently updated to support this. Can you grab the
 latest version from here and see if it resolves your issue - <a href="https://git.ipxe.org/releases/wimboot/wimboot-latest.zip" target="_blank">https://git.ipxe.org/releases/wimboot/wimboot-latest.zip</a> ?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">If that does not work, please try directly using bootmgr.exe (thus avoiding wimboot extracting it) by grabbing the file from inside the winpe.wim file at Windows\Boot\PXE\bootmgr.exe<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From: <a href="mailto:amit.shah@citrix.com">
amit.shah@citrix.com</a><br>
To: <a href="mailto:ian@internals.io">ian@internals.io</a>; <a href="mailto:ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org">
ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org</a><br>
Subject: RE: [ipxe-devel] wimboot issue with server 2012 on physical servers<br>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 00:51:59 +0000<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Server 2012. This is the script</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">#!ipxe</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">echo ======================================================================</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">echo freeing all loaded images to ensure wimboot works</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">imgfree</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">echo ======================================================================</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">set base <%= repo_url.sub(%r{/$}, '') %></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">kernel <%= file_url('wimboot', true) %></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">initrd ${base}/bootmgr                          bootmgr</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">initrd ${base}/boot/bcd                         BCD</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">initrd ${base}/boot/fonts/segmono_boot.ttf      segmono_boot.ttf</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">initrd ${base}/boot/fonts/segoe_slboot.ttf      segoe_slboot.ttf</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">initrd ${base}/boot/fonts/segoen_slboot.ttf     segoen_slboot.ttf</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">initrd ${base}/boot/fonts/wgl4_boot.ttf         wgl4_boot.ttf</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">initrd ${base}/boot/boot.sdi                    boot.sdi</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">initrd ${base}/winpe.wim                        boot.wim</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">echo ======================================================================</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">imgstat</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">echo now booting WinPE client</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">boot</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Server 2012 R2 doesn’t work atall. I get an bootmgr.exe not found error. Is there any fix available for this ?</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thanks</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Amit</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 29, 2014 8:22 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Amit Shah; <a href="mailto:ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org">ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [ipxe-devel] wimboot issue with server 2012 on physical servers</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Server 2012 or Server 2012 R2? Can you please share the wimboot portion of your ipxe script?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">--Ian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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amit.shah@citrix.com</a><br>
To: <a href="mailto:ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org">ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org</a><br>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 21:01:25 +0000<br>
Subject: [ipxe-devel] wimboot issue with server 2012 on physical servers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">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="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="http://forum.ipxe.org/showthread.php?tid=7085" target="_blank">http://forum.ipxe.org/showthread.php?tid=7085</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="http://forum.ipxe.org/showthread.php?tid=7121" target="_blank">http://forum.ipxe.org/showthread.php?tid=7121</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="http://lists.ipxe.org/pipermail/ipxe-devel/2013-January/002176.html" target="_blank">http://lists.ipxe.org/pipermail/ipxe-devel/2013-January/002176.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I added the missing font, made sure the bios is at latest, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The same task works fine on a VM hosted on Xen but doesn’t work on a physical servers. These are some hardware details<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">"bios_vendor":"HP",</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">"bios_version":"P58",</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">"bios_release_date":"05/02/2011",</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">"manufacturer":"HP",</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">"productname":"ProLiant DL360 G5",</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">"serialnumber":"USE839N9CA",</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">"uuid":"33393935-3234-5553-4538-33394E394341",</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">"type":"Rack Mount Chassis"</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Are there any know issues ? Any help is appreciated.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Amit  <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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