Does the problem only happen on that machine, or do other, different, physical
machines have the same problem?
Also, let's try to narrow down where things are going wrong. If you comment out
the initrd for the BCD, do you see an error after everything is downloaded? If
so, we know we're making it that far.
If so, can you use bcdedit to enable the legacy menu: bcdedit /store <path to
your bcd file> /set {default} bootmenupolicy legacy
That will cause a few loading bars before you should see the Windows logo
(which we're not reaching). What do you see in this case?
--Ian
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: RE: [ipxe-devel] wimboot issue with server 2012 on physical servers
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 01:25:58 +0000
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]
To: [email protected];
[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]
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]
To: [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
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