On Wednesday 26 Jan 2011 07:08:21 James A. Peltier wrote: > I'm trying to move from gPXE to iPXE and I seem to be having difficulty. > In gPXE the following script works and does not get into a constant loop, > however, with iPXE it goes into a never ending loop. Am I missing > something here?? > > #!ipxe > > echo "Hi There! We will be booting from http://mirror.its.sfu.ca/ today." > echo "It is assumed that you have dhcp networking." > > autoboot
Are you sure you want "autoboot" in here? The script should never continue beyond this point, in either gPXE or iPXE, since autoboot will either fail or never return. I assume you're trying to acquire an address via DHCP, in which case maybe something like: #!ipxe echo "Hi There! We will be booting from http://mirror.its.sfu.ca/ today." echo "It is assumed that you have dhcp networking." dhcp set 209:string pxelinux.cfg/default set 210:string http://mirror.its.sfu.ca/tftpboot/ echo "Here we go!" chain http://mirror.its.sfu.ca/tftpboot/pxelinux.0 might work for you? Also, with iPXE you could look into making the script more robust by handling DHCP errors etc. For example: #!ipxe echo "Hi There! We will be booting from http://mirror.its.sfu.ca/ today." echo "It is assumed that you have dhcp networking." :retry dhcp || goto retry set 209:string pxelinux.cfg/default set 210:string http://mirror.its.sfu.ca/tftpboot/ echo "Here we go!" chain http://mirror.its.sfu.ca/tftpboot/pxelinux.0 || goto retry which would cause both DHCP and the HTTP download to be retried indefinitely if e.g. the server were to be temporarily offline. Michael _______________________________________________ ipxe-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo/ipxe-devel
