<div dir="ltr">34Gb wim file? I'm not expecting a wim over 2GiB working reliably, even tho it probably should.<div>There is some memory boundaries that bootmgr uses that wimboot might not handle inte the same way. so</div><div><br></div><div>Just to avoid any size issue, I would start out with a minimal wim with the same drivers.</div><div>One other thing to check is that the same wim works on a usb drive as a replacement for the windows install boot.wim<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 11:54 AM, 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:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">sectors = 0xff80040 which is definitely 127GB. The 1024*255*63 is a legacy holdover from the old 8GB disk limit. I think.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Boot with imgstat in looks like:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">iPXE 1.0.0+ (93224) -- Open Source Network Boot Firmware -- <a href="http://ipxe.org" target="_blank">http://ipxe.org</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Features: DNS HTTP iSCSI NBD TFTP SRP AoE ELF MBOOT PXE bzImage Menu PXEXT<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">net0: 00:15:5d:00:89:04 using netvsc on {bd959f1e-e64b-4d55-a501-<wbr>a1e8d453f4e0} (open)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> [Link:up, TX:0 TXE:0 RX:0 RXE:0]<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Configuring (net0 00:15:5d:00:89:04).... ok<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">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<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Next server: 172.16.3.200<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Filename: 8384db47-704f-405a-bb51-<wbr>b274f01de49d.ipxe<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">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<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">8384db47-704f-405a-bb51-<wbr>b274f01de49d.ipxe : 148 bytes [script]<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">wimboot-2.5.2... ok<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">boot/bcd... ok<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">boot/boot.sdi... ok<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">sources/boot.wim... ok<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">wimboot-2.5.2 : 42496 bytes [bzImage] [SELECTED] "pause"<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">bcd : 262144 bytes [PXE-NBP] "BCD"<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">boot.sdi : 3170304 bytes "boot.sdi"<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">boot.wim : 347125546 bytes "boot.wim"<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Not sure if screenshots work on this list, but then wimboot takes over and looks like this:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">I wonder how easy it would be to get wimboot logging via serial…<u></u><u></u></span></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<u></u><u></u></span></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>
<p class="MsoNormal">Extensions installation check<u></u><u></u></p>
<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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