Hi Ian, The new wimboot did solve the issue with Server 2012 R2 of "bootmgr.exe not found". But even in this case I am left with a blank screen after all files finish loading. Also to re-iterate the same script works on a VM on xen but gives a blank screen on a physical server.
Thanks Amit From: Ian Bannerman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 8:56 PM To: Amit Shah; [email protected] Subject: RE: [ipxe-devel] wimboot issue with server 2012 on physical servers Ok, great. This should be pretty straightforward then. There were some changes to how bootmgr.exe was stored in bootmgr and wimboot was recently updated to support this. Can you grab the latest version from here and see if it resolves your issue - https://git.ipxe.org/releases/wimboot/wimboot-latest.zip ? If that does not work, please try directly using bootmgr.exe (thus avoiding wimboot extracting it) by grabbing the file from inside the winpe.wim file at Windows\Boot\PXE\bootmgr.exe --Ian ________________________________ From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>; [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [ipxe-devel] wimboot issue with server 2012 on physical servers Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 00:51:59 +0000 Server 2012. This is the script #!ipxe echo ====================================================================== echo freeing all loaded images to ensure wimboot works imgfree echo ====================================================================== set base <%= repo_url.sub(%r{/$}, '') %> kernel <%= file_url('wimboot', true) %> initrd ${base}/bootmgr bootmgr initrd ${base}/boot/bcd BCD initrd ${base}/boot/fonts/segmono_boot.ttf segmono_boot.ttf initrd ${base}/boot/fonts/segoe_slboot.ttf segoe_slboot.ttf initrd ${base}/boot/fonts/segoen_slboot.ttf segoen_slboot.ttf initrd ${base}/boot/fonts/wgl4_boot.ttf wgl4_boot.ttf initrd ${base}/boot/boot.sdi boot.sdi initrd ${base}/winpe.wim boot.wim echo ====================================================================== imgstat echo now booting WinPE client boot Server 2012 R2 doesn't work atall. I get an bootmgr.exe not found error. Is there any fix available for this ? Thanks Amit From: Ian Bannerman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 8:22 PM To: Amit Shah; [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [ipxe-devel] wimboot issue with server 2012 on physical servers Server 2012 or Server 2012 R2? Can you please share the wimboot portion of your ipxe script? Thanks! --Ian ________________________________ From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 21:01:25 +0000 Subject: [ipxe-devel] wimboot issue with server 2012 on physical servers Hi, I am trying to install Windows Server 2012 on physical servers. Followed the instructions here http://ipxe.org/wimboot. After loading all the files I see a blank screen. I found several posts with this issue but with no definitive solution. http://forum.ipxe.org/showthread.php?tid=7085 http://forum.ipxe.org/showthread.php?tid=7121 http://lists.ipxe.org/pipermail/ipxe-devel/2013-January/002176.html I added the missing font, made sure the bios is at latest, etc. The same task works fine on a VM hosted on Xen but doesn't work on a physical servers. These are some hardware details "bios_vendor":"HP", "bios_version":"P58", "bios_release_date":"05/02/2011", "manufacturer":"HP", "productname":"ProLiant DL360 G5", "serialnumber":"USE839N9CA", "uuid":"33393935-3234-5553-4538-33394E394341", "type":"Rack Mount Chassis" Are there any know issues ? Any help is appreciated. Thanks Amit _______________________________________________ ipxe-devel mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ipxe-devel
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