[ipxe-devel] FTP connection with Wimboot

[Christian Nilsson]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Marc Le Bailly
<marclebailly at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have download and setup the last sysLinux version 6.03 which include
> through the bootloader lpxelinux.0 the ability to use HTTP or FTP server to
> load data.
> All the commands are an extract of my default file inside de pxelinux.cfg
> folder on my TFTP server.
>
> I would like to use Wimboot in the same way as Memdisk :
>
> LABEL windows_winvblock
> LINUX memdisk
> INITRD ftp://XXX.XXX.XX.XXX/tftp/images/winISO.iso
> APPEND iso raw
>
> So I use these lines to load my wim files through TFTP and it works but very
> slowly due to TFTP protocol:
> label WinPE
> com32 linux.c32 tftp/libs/wimboot
> APPEND wimboot
> initrdfile=/images/WinPE/bcd,/images/WinPE/boot.sdi,/images/WinPE/boot.wim
>
> My question is : is it possible to use Wimboot through FTP connection like
> memdisk?
>
> I tried this but it simply doesn't work :
> label WinPE
> com32 linux.c32 tftp/libs/wimboot
> APPEND wimboot
> initrd ftp://XXX.XXX.XX.XXX/tftp/images/WinPE/bcd
> initrd ftp://XXX.XXX.XX.XXX/tftp/images/WinPE/boot.sdi
> initrd ftp://XXX.XXX.XX.XXX/tftp/images/WinPE/boot.wim
> I tried with initrdfile = ftp://... and it doesn't work either.
>
> I don't know what is wrong in my command line menu. Do you know the right
> command to use to load files with FTP protocol ?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Marc Le Bailly.
>

Hi,

The list have not been moderated for a while, so sorry for the late
replys, (If it does not help you hopefully it will help someone else)

ipxe does not support FTP only TFTP, HTTP is the recommended way to transfer.
the support in syslinux is a question for the syslinux list but I
think you need one initrd line such as
initrd ftp://XXX.XXX.XX.XXX/tftp/images/WinPE/bcd,ftp://XXX.XXX.XX.XXX/tftp/images/WinPE/boot.sdi,ftp://XXX.XXX.XX.XXX/tftp/images/WinPE/boot.wim

wimboot itself does not care where the data comes from, just that is
available in memory with filenames it knows how to handle to create
the virtual filesystem that bootmgr then can use.

Regards