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

[Julien Métairie]

Hi Alex,

If your issue arises with UEFI devices, you might have ran into the same 
problem as I found some years ago:
https://lists.ipxe.org/pipermail/ipxe-devel/2018-May/006158.html

As far as I know, this bug is still present.

Regards,
Julien


Le 02/07/2022 à 04:39, Alex Leo a écrit :
> 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 
> <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 
> <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 
> <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
> 
> 
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