add Ventoy to boot menu

[george1421]

@youzersef Understand I’m just making some guesses here because I don’t know ventoy. But if you look at the ventoy document link I provided. There is a section that talks about a drop down list on the configuration page where you need to change the dhcp server mode to ExternalNet.

The second thing is it looks like they are running a customized version of iPXE (same thing fog uses as boot loader) but its qualifying the name and it doesn’t like ipxe.efi as the file name because its not its own app. I think this is why the error is being thrown.

[youzersef]

@george1421 i changed to ExternalNet. but nothing has been changed. I found something in the community of ventoy which could help me.

maybe you can tell me what the post means. because am not good enough in pxe.

https://forums.ventoy.net/showthread.php?tid=2743

someone posted:

I managed to chainload from my main iPXE to iVentoy, basically you need to do following things:
1. In your main iPXE boot.ipxe file, set user-class to a specific value, such as MyCustomClass
2. In your dhcp server, match this user-class and send next-server as your iVentoy IP
3. In your main iPXE boot.ipxe, run 'dhcp' command, after 'set user-class MyCustomClass' command, then 'chain tftp://${next-server}/iventoy_loader_16000'
Done 

[baovipboy156]

fog > ipxe menu > add option:

set net0/next-server 192.168.1.254
chain --replace --autofree ipxe.x64.snponly.efi.0

on ubuntu fog server: edit file /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf

class "UEFI-64-1" {
    match if substring(option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 20) = "PXEClient:Arch:00007";
    if exists user-class and option user-class = "iVentoy"{
    filename "iventoy_loader_16000_uefi";
    next-server 192.168.152.254;
} else {
    filename "ipxe.efi";
}
}

i manged to chain ventoy but the graphic is bugged

[youzersef]

@baovipboy156

i tried on test server it is pfsense as DHCP-Server it works… Thank you.

i will try it on my main Server next week … it is windows server.

@george1421 if you want i can post the configuration that i used to configure iventoy as next server after fog server… live photos:

after i chose iVentoy…

thank you guys you made my day…

[george1421]

@youzersef said in add Ventoy to boot menu:

if you want i can post the configuration that i used to configure iventoy as next server after fog server

If this info would help the next guy, I would say yes. That way we can all learn from someone that has already walked the bloody path to victory. That’s what makes opensource and a community lead project work.

[baovipboy156]

@youzersef
Did you got the booting ISO working normally?, seem the graphic is bugged with some modern mainboard

[youzersef]

@baovipboy156 i tested on vm and i did not get problems. I will test it on dell Laptops next week.

[baovipboy156]

@youzersef
I found it, root cause: screen resolution
some monitor can’t display 1024x768…wtf, then i set it to 1280x720 it work perfectly!

[youzersef]

@george1421

do you have any idea how can i add the same rule on DHCP windows server?

class "UEFI-64-1" {
    match if substring(option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 20) = "PXEClient:Arch:00007";
    if exists user-class and option user-class = "iVentoy"{
    filename "iventoy_loader_16000_uefi";
    next-server 10.132.7.113;
} else {
    filename "ipxe.efi";
}
}

[george1421]

@youzersef I don’t have an immediate answer for you, but I can point you in a direction. The FOG Project has a wiki page on how to setup policies in windows dhcp server. The first section of your code is outlined in the policy. https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/BIOS_and_UEFI_Co-Existence

You might be able to do the user class part too, but I don’t know. Windows dhcp server policies are very similar to what you can do in linux.

[microsam]

@baovipboy156
thanks for your input, but cannot get it working with it…
would you please post more details and steps by steps to get it work, please…

iventoy1.20
fog 1.5.10.1615