[ipxe-devel] Help with iPXE, wimboot and PXELinux

[shouldbe q931]

On Sat, Jul 2, 2022 at 3:39 AM Alex Leo <sir.alexandre.leo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey everyone,
>
> Tried asking on forums but registration is closed, hopefully you're guys ok with asking the question here.
> I'm attempting to boot Windows PE environment using wimboot and iPXE
> I'm currently loading iPXE through PXELinux using the following in default.
> The iPXE_Test loads up correctly and dumps me into Linux.
> iPXE_Windows_http however hangs after http://192.168.10.123/windows/win2019/boot.ipxe ... ok
> with a blinking cursor.
>
> I have the following in the boot.ipxe
>  #!ipxe
>
>  kernel wimboot
>  initrd boot/bcd         BCD
>  initrd boot/boot.sdi    boot.sdi
>  initrd sources/boot.wim boot.wim
>  boot
>
> #default PXELinux.cfg
> label iPXE_TEST
>         menu label iPXE_TEST
>         kernel iPXE/ipxe.lkrn
>         APPEND dhcp && chain http://boot.ipxe.org/demo/boot.php
>
> label iPXE_Windows_http
>         menu label iPXE_Windows_http
>         kernel iPXE/ipxe.lkrn
>         APPEND dhcp && chain http://192.168.10.123/windows/win2019/boot.ipxe
>
>
> Anyone have ideas why it won't boot? I have wimboot in same directory as boot.ipxe
>
> Alex
>
What do your web server logs show?

Cheers