[ipxe-devel] bad MZ magic d5e9

[Nux!]

Hi Michael,

That makes some sense. I put the bootmgr.exe there because prior to that it was complaining that it was missing.
Perhaps it's missing from the wim, need to go back to investigating.

Thank you,

Lucian

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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Brown" <mcb30 at ipxe.org>
> To: "Nux!" <nux at li.nux.ro>, ipxe-devel at lists.ipxe.org
> Sent: Friday, 3 July, 2015 11:16:47
> Subject: Re: [ipxe-devel] bad MZ magic d5e9

> On 02/07/15 19:33, Nux! wrote:
>> I'm trying to deploy Windows via Wimboot/pxelinux. It almost starts, but dies
>> out with "bad MZ magic d5e9". Can someone translate that into English, what am
>> I missing?
>> Screenshot bad MZ magic d5e9
> 
> You have apparently taken the file "bootmgr" and renamed it to
> "bootmgr.exe".  This causes wimboot to attempt to load and execute the
> file it has been told is "bootmgr.exe".  This fails because it isn't
> really bootmgr.exe.  The effect is similar to taking a random file
> "some_picture.jpeg" and renaming it to "bootmgr.exe"; it's not going to
> work.
> 
> Recent versions of wimboot have the ability to extract bootmgr.exe
> directly from the .wim image.  You should be able to just delete
> "boot/windows-x86_64/bootmgr.exe" from your "initrdfile=..." list.
> 
> Michael