That's weasel complaining. Did you mayhaps see an error about BOOTIF or something during boot?
You might consider trying the substitute esxboot efi executable: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xcat/files/yum/xcat-dep/esxboot-xcat-1.0.0-2.noarch.rpm/download On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Yixuan Huang <yixuan...@gmail.com> wrote: > hello all, > when i used https to load esxi 5.1 installer with ipxe, kernel(tboot.b00) > and other files can be downloaded by ipxe through https. > 9.119.47.207 - - [16/Jul/2013:12:31:01 +0800] "GET /maint/b.b00 HTTP/1.1" > 200 55284 "-" "iPXE/1.0.0+" > 9.119.47.207 - - [16/Jul/2013:12:31:01 +0800] "GET /maint/useropts.gz > HTTP/1.1" 200 20 "-" "iPXE/1.0.0+" > 9.119.47.207 - - [16/Jul/2013:12:31:02 +0800] "GET /maint/k.b00 HTTP/1.1" 200 > 2648864 "-" "iPXE/1.0.0+" > > But when read installation script, it will fail. error message windows > shows: > error (see log for more info): > Error copying / downloading file > Error (see log for more info): > Error connecting to the network > Did not get an IP address from DHCP server. > > I used 'esxboot-x64.efi -c /maint/boot.cfg.install ks= > http://xx.xx.xx.xx/maint/ULDR/esxi5host' to load ks.cfg in ipxe shell. > > Any workaround to load correct ks.cfg for esxi installer, in static ip > environment. > > Thanks, > Eugene > > > > Thanks, > yixuan > > > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:55 PM, Yixuan Huang <yixuan...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hello Jarrod, >> I have tested http, result seems okay for me. one more update, i install >> esxi5.1 build 1065491. >> I am testing https as well. >> So ftp issue seems present for me. >> >> Thanks, >> yixuan >> >> >> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Jarrod Johnson < >> jarrod.b.john...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> In my experience in chainbooting ipxe, I've found the underlying nic to >>> influence things significantly. >>> >>> Additionally, xCAT patches esxboot. >>> http://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/code/16978/tree/xcat-dep/trunk/esxboot/. >>> I don't think *performance* should be an issue if you observe it actually >>> using non-tftp, but provided for completeness. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Yixuan Huang <yixuan...@gmail.com>wrote: >>> >>>> hello guys, >>>> not sure if here is the right place to raise my concern. >>>> when i used ipxe to load esxboot.efi -c boot.cfg ks=ftp://xx/esxi5 >>>> I can see esxi installer has been loaded, and small size file has been >>>> downloaded, but when load s.v00 which is 117MB, it will be very slow. when >>>> i switch to ftp window, it shows only 20kb which is down from 1MB/s in my >>>> environment. >>>> I have used two ftp server, both are similar. >>>> have you met that issue? how to resovle? when i used xcat through >>>> http, works fine. >>>> >>>> some problem for esxi installer ? >>>> >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> yixuan >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> ipxe-devel mailing list >>>> ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org >>>> https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ipxe-devel >>>> >>>> >>> >> > > _______________________________________________ > ipxe-devel mailing list > ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org > https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ipxe-devel > >
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