Trying to add iPXE option to boot WinPE
-
Update: I managed to get a connection with the fog server and it loads the files. Problem now is that it says “no bootmgr.exe”, do I need to extract the whole ISO file in the same folder with BCD, boot.wim and etc…?
-
I looked inside the “boot.wim\Windows\Boot” and there is no PXE folde, thus it doesn’t have bootmgr.exe.
What can I do to fix it? Can I just modify it and copy PXE folder from boot.wim who does have that folder (say, windows 10)? -
@willingmost7 You know I had an issue with hiren’s boot image where it was giving me an error that I traced down to wimboot where it didn’t understand the advanced compression applied to the wim file. It was throwing an error about bootmgr.exe not being available. The error is outlined here: https://forums.fogproject.org/post/144293
The key was to download and install winboot 2.7.3. Lets have you try that. Because when I was testing with hirens, wimboot would start to load throw the error and reboot, which is inline with what you are saying.
Lets load up wimboot 2.7.3 (which is not listed as current on github).
-
@george1421 On your tutorial you linked 2.6.0, but I managed to find myself 2.7.3 and it didn’t work either.
Here is the error (after I updated to 2.7.3):
It seems the WIM file lacks the folder PXE
-
@willingmost7 OK I ran into that issue with the Hiren’s disk too. I ended up finding bootmgr.exe on a older windows 10 like 1503 or something iso image. I loaded that via FOG iPXE. From my previous linked post where I mentioned 2.7.3, if you look in the picture you will see it find bootmgr.exe file. Let me get the ipxe menu settings.
-
@george1421 Here is what I have for the ipxe menu
set tftp-path tftp://${fog-ip}/os set pe-path ${tftp-path}/Hiren101 kernel ${tftp-path}/wimboot gui imgfetch --name BCD ${pe-path}/BCD BCD imgfetch --name boot.sdi ${pe-path}/boot.sdi boot.sdi imgfetch --name bootmgr ${pe-path}/bootmgr bootmgr imgfetch --name boot.wim ${pe-path}/boot.wim boot.wim boot || goto MENUNow you might need to add/exchange this line
imgfetch --name bootmgr ${pe-path}/bootmgr bootmgrwith
imgfetch --name bootmgr.exe ${pe-path}/bootmgr.exe bootmgr.exeI didn’t test this completely because I ran out of time.
-
@george1421 Wow thanks a ton! It did bring me to the load screen, but it has a different error now. The thing about Sergei Strelec is that there are a lot of dependencies outside the wim file. I think I might need to take a different approach and load the whole ISO.
-
load the whole ISO.
The problem with this code is that it doesn’t boot into the ISO it loads, it just says Loading boot sector… booting… and then skips to windows:
initrd tftp://${fog-ip}/os/Sergei/Sergei.iso chain tftp://${fog-ip}/os/memdisk iso rawThis code just crashes when loading the WinPE in the ISO (meaning it loaded the whole 4GB ISO, but I don’t know why it crashes. The PC has 16GB of RAM):
sanboot http://${fog-ip}/html/Sergei/Sergei.isoThis code just says input/output error 1d0c62 fix (on the ISO file):
initrd http://${fog-ip}/html/Sergei/Sergei.iso kernel tftp://${fog-ip}/os/memdisk iso raw -
initrd tftp://${fog-ip}/os/Sergei/Sergei.iso chain tftp://${fog-ip}/os/memdisk iso rawYou have 2 fundamental problems here.
- memdisk only works with BIOS based computers not UEFI
- sergei.iso is greater than 2GB (memdisk is a 32 bit program so the maximum amount of data memory it can address is 2GB).
Where do you get this Sergei Strelec iso file from? Is that something you created?
Is it free to download and try? -
@george1421 Here is a link to the iso, very powerful useful tool.
@george1421 said in Trying to add iPXE option to boot WinPE:
memdisk only works with BIOS based computers not UEFI
PCs there are able to boot both from legacy and UEFI, but their OS is set to legacy boot. Is it possible to set this to boot from UEFI? It won’t cause any problems?
-
@george1421 Do you boot on MDT with en iPXE entry or did you make a new Task Type for it ?
