[ipxe-devel] Windows 2016 and ipxe boot

2016-12-13 Thread Eytan Heidingsfeld
Hello, I've been testing Windows 2016 Server and ipxe. I can get it working on a Xen setup, but have trouble getting it to work on Hyper-V (the server is 2012R2). ipxe successfully loads bootmgr but it seems that bootmgr has trouble loading winload.exe to continue the boot. I receive an error

[ipxe-devel] Ipxe and booting of Win2016 on HyperV guest

2017-01-13 Thread Eytan Heidingsfeld
Hello, I've been having issues using ipxe to boot Windows 2016 on a HyperV guest (have managed booting Windows 2016 on other platforms). I started debugging the various issues: 1. The first issue is that the Windows 2016 winload.exe wants to look for a security related registry hive on the system

Re: [ipxe-devel] Problem with ipxe on Xen 4.4

2017-12-30 Thread Eytan Heidingsfeld
Hi, Sorry for the delay, Managed to test it locally too and it seems to fix the problem, Thanks Too! E On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 2:16 PM, Michael Brown <mc...@ipxe.org> wrote: > On 26/12/17 12:47, Michael Brown wrote: > >> On 25/12/17 11:20, Eytan Heidingsfeld wrote: >>

[ipxe-devel] Problem with ipxe on Xen 4.4

2017-12-25 Thread Eytan Heidingsfeld
Hello, When trying to use ipxe on Xen 4.4 it was always using the emulated NIC (realtek) and not the netfront driver. I retried with DEBUG=xenbus and saw that xenbus_probe_type failed for the device: device/suspend/event-channel (I think because it doesn't have a backend key - it is empty). As