[ipxe-devel] Forum - please let me post and share...

Wed Jun 20 10:17:03 UTC 2012

Hi,

My current login "ZeroQI" is banned for no reason... I look like a spammer so it seems...

I do support for dell thin clients (FX130, FX170) but soon to be deprecated as Dell bought Wyse, and also support the Dell Kace appliances for inventory, software deployment, imaging, etc...

I would like to share my project (pxe boot menus showcasting most possibilities of ipxe) like graphical menus (and skins that can be changed temporarilyl from within the menu (useless and a bitch to code) or loading pxelinux 4.04 or 3.86 and have the menu still works, etc...

As PHP creator Marcus said in PHP2012, you need to show what a tool can do before people to use it more....

I want to share my little menu, as I worked with iscsi boot also in there, and also useful scripts like the one below...

I think a section with exemple scripts like below (or even posted by me in the forum) could help even if it is in a small way...
Please unban my account so I can share on the forum at least...

Kind regards,
Benjamin, a French ipxe fan in Dublin.

#!ipxe
# PXE error codes        http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/rdp/knowledgebase/00000138.html
# Ascii to Hec convertor http://easycalculation.com/ascii-hex.php
#In the same way that option 43 is an option space containing vendor-encapsulated options,
# gPXE uses option 175 to contain gPXE-specific encapsulated options.

:first_page
echo Client Fields___ Option_ Value_________________________________________________
echo manufacturer.... ....... ${manufacturer}
echo product......... ....... ${product}
echo serial.......... ....... ${serial}
echo asset........... ....... ${asset}
echo mac............. ....... ${mac}
echo uuid............ 097.... ${uuid}
echo busid........... 175.177 ${busid}#can be used to chainload
echo user class...... 077.... ${user-class}
echo
echo DHCP Fields_____ Option_ Value_________________________________________________
echo dhcp-server..... 054.... ${dhcp-server}
echo domain.......... 015.... ${domain}
echo hostname........ 012.... ${hostname}
echo ip.............. 050.... ${ip}
echo netmask......... 001.... ${netmask}
echo gateway......... 003.... ${gateway}
echo dns............. 006.... ${dns}
echo syslog.......... 007.... ${7:ipv4} / "${syslog}" (if support compiled)
echo ntp-server...... 042.... ${42:ipv4}
echo
echo next-server..... 066.... ${next-server}
echo filename........ 067.... ${filename}
echo
prompt Press any key to continue...

:second_page
echo DHCP options____ Option_ Value_________________________________________________
echo priority........ 175.001 ${priority:hex}
echo no-pxedhcp...... 175.176 ${175.176:hex}
echo use-cached...... 175.178 ${use-cached:hex}
echo scriptlet....... 175.081 ${scriptlet}
echo bios-drive...... 175.189 ${189}#what is this for???
echo version-code.... 175.235 ${235}#what is this for???
echo
echo San settings____ Option_ Value_________________________________________________
echo keep-san........ 175.008 ${keep-san:hex}
echo skip-san-boot... 175.009 ${skip-san-boot}
echo root-path....... 017.... ${root-path}                #iscsi:<servername (domain name, ipv4)>:[protocol (6)]:[port (3260)]:[LUN (0)]:<targetname (IQN)>
echo initiator-iqn... 203.... ${initiator-iqn}              #iscsi:my.target.dns.name::::iqn.2007-08.name.dns.target.my:iscsiboot #[Serva32/64 forbid ascii use]
echo
echo Authenticaition_ Option_ Value_________________________________________________
echo username........ 175.190 ${username}
echo password........ 175.191 ${password}
echo reverse-username 175.192 ${reverse-username}
echo reverse-password 175.193 ${reverse-password}
echo
echo
echo
echo
echo
#Go in windows character map, select system font, 0x100+ascii code for letter in key.h [ http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/blob/HEAD:/src/include/ipxe/keys.h ]
prompt --key 0x141 Press UP to go back to the first page or any other key to continue... && goto first_page ||  #UP

#!ipxe
echo ===============================================================================
time imgfetch tftp://${next-server}/diag/test/1MB                                                        && imgfree && set tftp 1 ||
time imgfetch http://${next-server}/diag/test/1MB                                                       && imgfree && set http 1 ||
time imgfetch  ftp://serva:serva@${next-server}:21/diag/test/1MB                                       && imgfree && set ftp  1 ||
#echo ===============================================================================
#isset $(tftp) && time imgfetch tftp://${next-server}/diag/test/5MB                     && imgfree ||
#isset $(hftp) && time imgfetch http://${next-server}/diag/test/5MB                   && imgfree ||
#isset $(ftp)  && time imgfetch  ftp://serva:serva@${next-server}/diag/test/5MB           && imgfree ||
echo ===============================================================================
isset $(tftp) && time imgfetch tftp://${next-server}/diag/test/10MB                      && imgfree ||
isset $(hftp) && time imgfetch http://${next-server}/diag/test/10MB                    && imgfree ||
isset $(ftp)  && time imgfetch  ftp://serva:serva@${next-server}/diag/test/10MB           && imgfree ||
#echo ===============================================================================
#isset $(tftp) && time imgfetch tftp://${next-server}/diag/test/20MB                   && imgfree ||
#isset $(hftp) && time imgfetch http://${next-server}/diag/test/20MB                 && imgfree ||
#isset $(ftp)  && time imgfetch  ftp://serva:serva@${next-server}/diag/test/20MB         && imgfree ||
#echo ===============================================================================
#isset $(tftp) && time imgfetch tftp://${next-server}/diag/test/50MB                   && imgfree ||
#isset $(hftp) && time imgfetch http://${next-server}/diag/test/50MB                 && imgfree ||
#isset $(ftp)  && time imgfetch  ftp://serva:serva@${next-server}/diag/test/50MB         && imgfree ||
echo ===============================================================================
isset $(tftp) && time imgfetch tftp://${next-server}/diag/test/100MB                   && imgfree ||
isset $(hftp) && time imgfetch http://${next-server}/diag/test/100MB                 && imgfree ||
isset $(ftp)  && time imgfetch  ftp://serva:serva@${next-server}/diag/test/100MB         && imgfree ||
echo ===============================================================================
prompt Press a key to continue...

#!ipxe
 dhcp
goto host_${hostname} || goto unknown
 :host_thinclient1
sanboot iscsi:192.168.0.1::::iqn.2010-04.org.ipxe:winxp
 :host_thinclient2
sanboot iscsi:192.168.0.1::::iqn.2010-04.org.ipxe:win7
 :unknown
echo Unknown host ${hostname}

#!ipxe
#to enable when embedded, use cache set to 1 if kkpxe, not for kpxe due to dropped pxe stack
#set use-cached 0
#dhcp net0

set keep-san 1
set initiator-iqn ${next-server}::::iqn.2008-08.com.starwindsoftware:${next-server}-test
set root-path iscsi:${initiator-iqn}-test

#sanhook --drive 0x80 --no-describe iscsi:10.0.0.1::::iqn.2008-08.com.starwindsoftware:10.0.0.1-test
#sanboot --drive 0x81 --no-describe iscsi:10.0.0.1::::iqn.2008-08.com.starwindsoftware:10.0.0.1-esx41

sanhook iscsi:${next-server}::::iqn.2008-08.com.starwindsoftware:${next-server}-${net0/mac:hexhyp} ||
sanboot --drive 0x81 --no-describe iscsi:${next-server}::::iqn.2008-08.com.starwindsoftware:${next-server}-esx41
sanboot ${root-path} ||
Kind Regards,

Benjamin Brisson
Enterprise Technical Support Advisor
Dell | Solutions Support Team, EMEA.
Tel: +353 1 279 2596
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