Thanks, I'll give that a try today. ;) ----- Original Message ----- | 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
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