Thanks again, Leaving out the bootmgr from the initrd line fixed it for me.
Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michael Brown" <[email protected]> > To: "Nux!" <[email protected]>, "ipxe-devel" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, 3 July, 2015 11:16:47 > Subject: Re: [ipxe-devel] bad MZ magic d5e9 > On 02/07/15 19:33, Nux! wrote: >> I'm trying to deploy Windows via Wimboot/pxelinux. It almost starts, but dies >> out with "bad MZ magic d5e9". Can someone translate that into English, what >> am >> I missing? >> Screenshot bad MZ magic d5e9 > > You have apparently taken the file "bootmgr" and renamed it to > "bootmgr.exe". This causes wimboot to attempt to load and execute the > file it has been told is "bootmgr.exe". This fails because it isn't > really bootmgr.exe. The effect is similar to taking a random file > "some_picture.jpeg" and renaming it to "bootmgr.exe"; it's not going to > work. > > Recent versions of wimboot have the ability to extract bootmgr.exe > directly from the .wim image. You should be able to just delete > "boot/windows-x86_64/bootmgr.exe" from your "initrdfile=..." list. > > Michael _______________________________________________ ipxe-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ipxe-devel
