On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 1:03 PM, James A. Peltier <[email protected]> wrote: > Didn't work. There must be something else going on here.
If your DHCP server is configured to send something different on user-class "gPXE", you should be aware that iPXE sends user-class "iPXE" instead. Josh > > ----- Original Message ----- > | 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 > | > | -- > | James A. Peltier > | Research Computing Group > | Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus > | Phone : 778-782-6573 > | Fax : 778-782-3045 > | E-Mail : [email protected] > | Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices > | http://blogs.sfu.ca/people/jpeltier > | > | > | _______________________________________________ > | ipxe-devel mailing list > | [email protected] > | https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo/ipxe-devel > > -- > James A. Peltier > Research Computing Group > Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus > Phone : 778-782-6573 > Fax : 778-782-3045 > E-Mail : [email protected] > Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices > http://blogs.sfu.ca/people/jpeltier > > > _______________________________________________ > ipxe-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo/ipxe-devel > _______________________________________________ ipxe-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo/ipxe-devel
