<div dir="ltr">Indeed, sorry seems I haven't woken up properly yet. (or just missing coffee)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 12:12 PM, James Harper <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james@ejbdigital.com.au" target="_blank">james@ejbdigital.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">It’s around 350MB - maybe if I put some punctuation in there it might help<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">boot.wim : 347,125,546 bytes "boot.wim"</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, 22 October 2016 9:04 PM</span></p><div><div class="h5"><br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [ipxe-devel] wimboot hang<u></u><u></u></div></div><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">34Gb wim file? I'm not expecting a wim over 2GiB working reliably, even tho it probably should.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">There is some memory boundaries that bootmgr uses that wimboot might not handle inte the same way. so<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Just to avoid any size issue, I would start out with a minimal wim with the same drivers.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">One other thing to check is that the same wim works on a usb drive as a replacement for the windows install boot.wim<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 11:54 AM, James Harper <<a href="mailto:james@ejbdigital.com.au" target="_blank">james@ejbdigital.com.au</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">sectors = 0xff80040 which is definitely 127GB. The 1024*255*63 is a legacy holdover from the old 8GB
disk limit. I think.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Boot with imgstat in looks like:</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">iPXE 1.0.0+ (93224) -- Open Source Network Boot Firmware --
<a href="http://ipxe.org" target="_blank">http://ipxe.org</a></span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Features: DNS HTTP iSCSI NBD TFTP SRP AoE ELF MBOOT PXE bzImage Menu PXEXT</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">net0: 00:15:5d:00:89:04 using netvsc on {bd959f1e-e64b-4d55-a501-<wbr>a1e8d453f4e0} (open)</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> [Link:up, TX:0 TXE:0 RX:0 RXE:0]</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Configuring (net0 00:15:5d:00:89:04).... ok</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">net0:
<a href="http://172.16.3.104/255.255.255.0" target="_blank">172.16.3.104/255.255.255.0</a> gw 172.16.3.254</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Next server: 172.16.3.200</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Filename: 8384db47-704f-405a-bb51-<wbr>b274f01de49d.ipxe</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">tftp://<a href="http://172.16.3.200/8384db47-704f-405a-bb51-b274f01de49d.ipxe." target="_blank">172.16.3.200/8384db47-<wbr>704f-405a-bb51-b274f01de49d.<wbr>ipxe.</a>..
ok</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">8384db47-704f-405a-bb51-<wbr>b274f01de49d.ipxe : 148 bytes [script]</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">wimboot-2.5.2... ok</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">boot/bcd... ok</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">boot/boot.sdi... ok</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">sources/boot.wim... ok</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">wimboot-2.5.2 : 42496 bytes [bzImage] [SELECTED] "pause"</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">bcd : 262144 bytes [PXE-NBP] "BCD"</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">boot.sdi : 3170304 bytes "boot.sdi"</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">boot.wim : 347125546 bytes "boot.wim"</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Not sure if screenshots work on this list, but then wimboot takes over and looks like this:</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">I wonder how easy it would be to get wimboot logging via serial…</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, 22 October 2016 8:44 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> James Harper <<a href="mailto:james@ejbdigital.com.au" target="_blank">james@ejbdigital.com.au</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org" target="_blank">ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [ipxe-devel] wimboot hang</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">wimboot emulates a disk with a fat fs on it, which windows bootmgr uses to load it's files.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">in this case it is 1024*255*63*512 = ~8Gb<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">it would be interesting to see what imgstat in ipxe gives you just before your boot line<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 8:31 AM, James Harper <<a href="mailto:james@ejbdigital.com.au" target="_blank">james@ejbdigital.com.au</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Wimboot is hanging on boot in a hyper-v VM. The screen it stops at says:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Get parameters: C/H/S = 1024/255/63, drives = 1<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Get disk type: sectors = 0xff80040, type = 3<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Get Extended parameters: C/H/S = 1024/255/63, sectors = 0xfff80040 (512 bytes)<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Get parameters: C/H/S = 1024/255/63, drives = 1<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The reported number of sectors would be correct if the VM had a disk attached, but it doesn’t so I’m a little curious as to why it thinks there is, unless wimboot fakes a 127GB
disk too?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Any idea why it might be hanging? I have windbg running and windbg reports that it gets as far as “Boot Debugger Initialized”.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks<u></u><u></u></p>
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