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

[Alex Leo]

The script was the culprit indeed, it returned as PXE-NBP. It loads up fine
now

Thanks!






On Sat, 2 Jul 2022 at 15:27, Alex Leo <sir.alexandre.leo at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'll check the apache logs later today.
> Regarding ipxe.lkrn I know it works since the example
> http://boot.ipxe.org/demo/boot.php loads fine. The issue I believe is
> somewhere where it hands off to wimboot.
> The motherboard has UEFI and Legacy modes. I'm using legacy PXE.
>
> > If you read the pined topics in the forum it explains the state.
> Didn't notice that discussion was moved to GitHub. I was checking by last
> reply and saw forum was somewhat active.
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 2, 2022, 10:54 AM Christian Iwata Nilsson, <nikize at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 2 Jul 2022, 04:39 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
>>>
>>
>> If you read the pined topics in the forum it explains the state.
>>
>>
>>>
>> Since you have ipxe.lkrn we know you are using pcbios.
>> Have you tried to use only ipxe to rule out or confirm that this issue is
>> pxelinux related? (For example by using ipxe.usb on flash drive)
>>
>> You could also try to manually do imgfetch on boot.ipxe and then run
>> imgstat and verify that it is detected as script. It is important that
>> #!ipxe is the first bytes of the script, and that there is no BOM sequence
>> or similar.
>>
>>
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