Hello Brandon, > It seems no matter what I try, including the raw chardevs.b00 (gzip'd, > but does still boot), or unpacking it to just the chardevs file that > Nautilus identifies as an Object Code file, I get the above error. > If I do not include this module at all, when it tries to load the > user.b00 file, it fails on the chardevs namespace, indicating to me > that it is required.
I'll investigate further. > I did come up with a workaround for a person in the IRC channel that > chainloads to pxelinux.0 to load the installer via it's mboot.c32 file, > so they could at least get ESXi installing. I can post that if there is > interest. I also installed on Saturday three ESXi 5.1 machines using this chainload: #!ipxe dhcp net0 kernel -n mboot.c32 http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/mboot.c32 imgargs mboot.c32 -c http://10.10.10.1/ipxe/esxi5.1.cfg boot mboot.c32 esxi5.1.cfg: bootstate=0 title=Loading ESXi installer kernel=http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/tboot.b00 kernelopt=ks=http://10.10.10.1/cgi-bin/esxi5.pl modules=http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/b.b00 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/useropts.gz --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/k.b00 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/chardevs.b00 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/a.b00 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/user.b00 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/s.v00 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/ata_pata.v00 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/ata_pata.v01 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/ata_pata.v02 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/ata_pata.v03 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/ata_pata.v04 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/ata_pata.v05 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/ata_pata.v06 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/ata_pata.v07 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/block_cc.v00 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/ehci_ehc.v00 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/weaselin.t00 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/esx_dvfi.v00 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/xlibs.v00 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/ima_qla4.v00 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/ipmi_ipm.v00 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/ipmi_ipm.v01 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/ipm i_ipm.v02 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/misc_cni.v00 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/misc_dri.v00 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/net_be2n.v00 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/net_bnx2.v00 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/net_bnx2.v01 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/net_cnic.v00 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/net_e100.v00 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/net_e100.v01 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/net_enic.v00 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/net_forc.v00 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/net_igb.v00 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/net_ixgb.v00 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/net_nx_n.v00 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/net_r816.v00 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/net_r816.v01 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/net_s2io.v00 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/net_sky2.v00 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/net_tg3.v00 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/net_vmxn.v00 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/ohci_usb.v00 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/sata_ahc.v00 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/sata_ata.v00 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/sata_ sat.v00 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/sata_sat.v01 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/sata_sat.v02 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/sata_sat.v03 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/sata_sat.v04 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/scsi_aac.v00 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/scsi_adp.v00 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/scsi_aic.v00 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/scsi_bnx.v00 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/scsi_fni.v00 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/scsi_hps.v00 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/scsi_ips.v00 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/scsi_lpf.v00 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/scsi_meg.v00 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/scsi_meg.v01 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/scsi_meg.v02 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/scsi_mpt.v00 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/scsi_mpt.v01 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/scsi_mpt.v02 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/scsi_qla.v00 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/scsi_qla.v01 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/scsi_rst.v00 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/uhci_usb.v00 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/tools .t00 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/xorg.v00 --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/imgdb.tgz --- http://10.10.10.1/esxi5.1/imgpayld.tgz build= updated=0 I think the first thing we should investigate is if ipxe is supposed to detect that the files with the extension b00 are gzip compressed and compress them. And of course what is it about chardevs.b00 that makes it so special. My diff is: --- a/src/config/general.h +++ b/src/config/general.h @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ FILE_LICENCE ( GPL2_OR_LATER ); //#define IMAGE_PXE /* PXE image support */ //#define IMAGE_SCRIPT /* iPXE script image support */ //#define IMAGE_BZIMAGE /* Linux bzImage image support */ -//#define IMAGE_COMBOOT /* SYSLINUX COMBOOT image support */ +#define IMAGE_COMBOOT /* SYSLINUX COMBOOT image support */ //#define IMAGE_EFI /* EFI image support */ //#define IMAGE_SDI /* SDI image support */ Cheers, Thomas _______________________________________________ ipxe-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ipxe-devel
