Hello Jarrod, Yes. I used esxboot-x64.efi from xcat. I have not noticed error about BOOTIF or something else when booting.
Thanks, yixuan On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 2:50 AM, Jarrod Johnson <jarrod.b.john...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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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