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    • J
      jbsclm Developer
      last edited by

      Further to what Tom says, as you have noticed ipxe has a completely different menu structure to pxelinux which 0.32 used.
      If you set anything in the fog settings->pxe boot menu->advanced configuration menu a new item (advanced) will appear at the bottom of the first level menu.
      What you have to do is make sure that what you put in the advanced configuration menu is a valid ipxe menu.

      The example from the above post is below, note that the code inserts #!ipxe as the first line.

      :MENU
      menu
      item example1 Boot to disk
      item example2 Iso Boot
      item example3 Example Text 3
      :example1
      sanboot --no-describe --drive 0x80 || goto MENU
      :example2
      kernel memdisk iso raw
      initrd win764.iso
      boot || goto MENU
      :example3
      kernel memdisk iso raw
      initrd win8-164.iso
      boot || goto MENU
      autoboot

      It is useful to point you browser at the following urls, you can then see what is returned as the menu.
      [url]http://<fog[/url] ip>/fog/service/ipxe/boot.php for the initial menu.
      [url]http://<fog[/url] ip>/fog/service/ipxe/advanced.php for the advanced.

      you need to make sure that the files you are trying to use, (initrd, win764 etc) , can be accessed via http,

      The example below is an adaptation of one I have used at work, I’ve not tested it in this form, but you would need to copy memdisk and the diags files to a fog/dell folder in the apache folder.
      Don’t forget to change the ip address below to that of your fog server.

      set fog-server 192.168.1.11
      set boot-url [url]http://${fog-server}/fog/[/url]

      FONT=Courier Newmenu Imaging and Diagnostics[/FONT]

      FONT=Courier Newitem dell1 Dell Diags - GX760 GX380 E5400 XT2 E4200[/FONT]
      FONT=Courier Newitem dell2 Dell Diags - D4x0 D600-D630 GX240-GX755 P370-T3400[/FONT]
      FONT=Courier Newitem dell3 Dell Diags - XT[/FONT]
      FONT=Courier Newitem dell4 Dell Diags - T1500[/FONT]
      FONT=Courier New#item foginfo FOG system info[/FONT]
      FONT=Courier New [/FONT]
      FONT=Courier New [/FONT]
      FONT=Courier Newitem shell shell[/FONT]
      FONT=Courier New [/FONT]
      FONT=Courier New [/FONT]
      FONT=Courier Newchoose fog-opt && goto ${fog-opt}[/FONT]
      FONT=Courier New [/FONT]

      FONT=Courier New [/FONT]
      FONT=Courier New:dell1[/FONT]
      FONT=Courier Newkernel ${boot-url}fog/dell/memdisk raw[/FONT]
      FONT=Courier Newinitrd ${boot-url}fog/dell/diags1.img [/FONT]
      FONT=Courier Newboot[/FONT]
      FONT=Courier New [/FONT]
      FONT=Courier New:dell2[/FONT]
      FONT=Courier Newkernel ${boot-url}fog/dell/memdisk raw[/FONT]
      FONT=Courier Newinitrd ${boot-url}fog/dell/diags2.img [/FONT]
      FONT=Courier Newboot[/FONT]
      FONT=Courier New [/FONT]
      FONT=Courier New:dell3[/FONT]
      FONT=Courier Newkernel ${boot-url}fog/dell/memdisk raw[/FONT]
      FONT=Courier Newinitrd ${boot-url}fog/dell/diags3.img [/FONT]
      FONT=Courier Newboot[/FONT]
      FONT=Courier New [/FONT]
      FONT=Courier New:dell4[/FONT]
      FONT=Courier Newkernel ${boot-url}fog/dell/memdisk raw[/FONT]
      FONT=Courier Newinitrd ${boot-url}fog/dell/diags4.img [/FONT]
      FONT=Courier Newboot[/FONT]
      FONT=Courier New [/FONT]
      FONT=Courier New [/FONT]
      FONT=Courier New:foginfo[/FONT]
      FONT=Courier Newkernel ${boot-url}fog/kernel/bzImage root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=127000 ip=dhcp dns= keymap= web=${fog-server}/fog/ loglevel=4 consoleblank=0 mode=sysinfo[/FONT]
      FONT=Courier Newinitrd ${boot-url}fog/images/init.gz [/FONT]
      FONT=Courier Newboot[/FONT]
      FONT=Courier New [/FONT]
      FONT=Courier New:shell[/FONT]
      FONT=Courier Newshell[/FONT]

      Hope this helps

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      • Jaymes DriverJ
        Jaymes Driver Developer
        last edited by

        [quote=“jbsclm, post: 26417, member: 3158”]Further to what Tom says, as you have noticed ipxe has a completely different menu structure to pxelinux which 0.32 used.
        If you set anything in the fog settings->pxe boot menu->advanced configuration menu a new item (advanced) will appear at the bottom of the first level menu.
        What you have to do is make sure that what you put in the advanced configuration menu is a valid ipxe menu.

        The example from the above post is below, note that the code inserts #!ipxe as the first line.

        …[/quote]

        Very informative, I know this will be of use to me in the near future thank you!

        WARNING TO USERS: My comments are written completely devoid of emotion, do not mistake my concise to the point manner as a personal insult or attack.

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        • JunkhackerJ
          Junkhacker Developer
          last edited by

          i feel i should point out that yesterday Tom and I came up with an idea and added it to the advanced.php file.
          [CODE]print “set fog-ip “.$FOGCore->getSetting(‘FOG_WEB_HOST’).”\n”;
          print “set fog-webroot “.basename($FOGCore->getSetting(‘FOG_WEB_ROOT’)).”\n”;
          [/CODE]
          have been added so that you may use the ipxe variables “fog-ip” and “fog-webroot” for the creation of menus. here is a usable example that you should be able to paste into your advanced menu setting field without modification.
          [CODE]:MENU
          menu
          item --gap – ---------------- iPXE boot menu ----------------
          item ipxedemo ipxe online boot demo
          item shell ipxe shell
          item return return to previous menu
          choose --default return --timeout 5000 target && goto ${target}

          :ipxedemo
          chain http://boot.ipxe.org/demo/boot.php ||
          goto MENU

          :shell
          shell ||
          goto MENU

          :return
          chain http://${fog-ip}/${fog-webroot}/service/ipxe/boot.php?mac=${net0/mac} ||
          prompt
          goto MENU

          autoboot[/CODE]

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          • JunkhackerJ
            Junkhacker Developer
            last edited by

            here is an example of a menu for loading WinPE based ISO disks from a folder named ISO in the root of the web server
            [CODE]:MENU
            menu
            item --gap – ---------------- iPXE boot menu ----------------
            item WIN7PE64BIT Boot Windows 7 64 bit iso
            item WIN7PE32BIT Boot Windows 7 32 bit iso
            item shell ipxe shell
            item return return to previous menu
            choose --default WIN7PE64BIT --timeout 5000 target && goto ${target}

            :WIN7PE64BIT
            initrd http://${fog-ip}/ISO/Win7PE_x64.ISO
            chain memdisk iso raw ||
            goto MENU

            :WIN7PE32BIT
            initrd http://${fog-ip}/ISO/Win7PE_x86.ISO
            chain memdisk iso raw ||
            goto MENU

            :ipxedemo
            chain http://boot.ipxe.org/demo/boot.php ||
            goto MENU

            :shell
            shell ||
            goto MENU

            :return
            chain http://${fog-ip}/${fog-webroot}/service/ipxe/boot.php?mac=${net0/mac} ||
            prompt
            goto MENU

            autoboot[/CODE]

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            • N
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              last edited by

              My only regret is that I can only give a post one ‘like’.

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              • JunkhackerJ
                Junkhacker Developer
                last edited by

                a bunch of people liked those, so i’ll give you one more just to show more with ipxe

                [CODE]
                :MENU
                menu
                item --gap – ---------------- iPXE boot menu ----------------
                item ipxedemo ipxe online boot demo
                item shell ipxe shell
                item return return to previous menu
                item hostinfo details about this computer
                choose --default return --timeout 5000 target && goto ${target}

                :ipxedemo
                chain http://boot.ipxe.org/demo/boot.php ||
                goto MENU

                :shell
                shell ||
                goto MENU

                :return
                chain http://${fog-ip}/${fog-webroot}/service/ipxe/boot.php?mac=${net0/mac} ||
                prompt
                goto MENU

                :hostinfo
                echo This computer : ||
                echo MAC address…${net0/mac} ||
                echo IP address…${ip} ||
                echo Netmask…${netmask} ||
                echo Serial…${serial} ||
                echo Asset number…${asset} ||
                echo Manufacturer…${manufacturer} ||
                echo Product…${product} ||
                echo BIOS platform…${platform} ||
                echo ||
                echo press any key to return to Menu ||
                prompt
                goto MENU

                autoboot
                [/CODE]

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                • D
                  d31b0y
                  last edited by

                  Could someone do an entry for GParted? The [URL=‘http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Include_GParted’]Include Gparted[/URL] wiki page is out of date now and I can’t get the ISO to boot properly using the methods above.
                  I get as far as the GParted grub menu but once I try to boot to gparted, I get pages of
                  [CODE]modprobe: module unknown not found in modules.dep[/CODE]
                  followed by a blackscreen.

                  iPXE menu entry below
                  [CODE]:gparted
                  initrd http://${fog-ip}/ISO/gparted-live-0.18.0-2-i486.iso
                  chain memdisk iso raw ||
                  goto MENU[/CODE]

                  I found this which appears to be the same issue (a memdisk issue) but I am not sure how to implement the fix.
                  [url]http://gparted-forum.surf4.info/viewtopic.php?id=16884[/url]

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                  • D
                    d31b0y
                    last edited by

                    UPDATE; I got it working.
                    I copied vmlinuz, initrd.img and filesystem.squashfs from gparted into /var/www/fog/gparted/
                    and then updated my iPXE menu as follows:

                    kernel http://${fog-ip}/fog/gparted/vmlinuz
                    initrd http://${fog-ip}/fog/gparted/initrd.img
                    imgargs vmlinuz boot=live config union=aufs noswap noprompt vga=788 fetch=http://${fog-ip}/fog/gparted/filesystem.squashfs
                    boot[/CODE]

                    All tested and working now.

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                    • aruhunoA
                      aruhuno
                      last edited by

                      Hi!
                      To contribute a little, here is my advanced menu:
                      [CODE]# Chemin de boot de FOG
                      set boot_url http://${fog-ip}/fog_boot/
                      set boot_nfs ${fog-ip}:/images/fog_boot/

                      Détection de l’architecture

                      isset ${arch} && goto skip_arch_detect ||
                      cpuid --ext 29 && set arch x86_64 || set arch i386
                      :skip_arch_detect

                      :MENU
                      menu
                      item --gap – --------------------- Outils ---------------------
                      item SystemRescueCD Lancer SystemRescueCD (${arch})
                      item --gap –
                      item Debian Installer Debian Stable
                      item WS2008R2 Installer Windows Server 2008R2
                      item WS2012R2 Installer Windows Server 2012R2
                      #item --gap –
                      #item lubuntu32 Lubuntu 14.04 LTS (32 bits)
                      item --gap –
                      item retour Retouner au menu principal
                      choose --default SystemRescueCD --timeout 10000 target && goto ${target}

                      :SystemRescueCD
                      initrd ${boot_url}sysrescuecd/initram.igz
                      kernel ${boot_url}sysrescuecd/rescue_${arch} scandelay=1 dostartx docache nfsboot=${boot_nfs}sysrescuecd/ setkmap=fr
                      boot
                      goto MENU

                      :Debian
                      #set dir ${dir}${menu}-installer/${arch_a}/
                      imgfree
                      kernel http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/debian-installer/amd64/linux priority=low ${desktop_param} – quiet ${params}
                      initrd http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/debian-installer/amd64/initrd.gz
                      boot

                      :WS2008R2
                      sanboot ${boot_url}discimg/WS2008R2.iso
                      goto MENU

                      :WS2012R2
                      sanboot ${boot_url}discimg/WS20128R2.iso
                      goto MENU

                      :precedent
                      chain http://${fog-ip}/${fog-webroot}/service/ipxe/boot.php?mac=${net0/mac} ||
                      prompt
                      goto MENU

                      autoboot[/CODE]

                      "Parce que la connaissance appartient à tout le monde", inios.fr

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                      • D
                        domii666
                        last edited by

                        where must i copy the iso files?

                        Grezz

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                        • JunkhackerJ
                          Junkhacker Developer
                          last edited by

                          to whatever location you specified in the menu

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                            domii666
                            last edited by

                            okay. i saved the iso under var/www/fog/Win7AIO/WindowsAIO.iso. but it doesnt work.

                            :MENU
                            menu
                            item --gap – ---------------- iPXE boot menu ----------------
                            item WIN7PE64BIT Boot Windows 7 64 bit iso
                            item WIN7PE32BIT Boot Windows 7 32 bit iso
                            item shell ipxe shell
                            item return return to previous menu
                            choose --default WIN7PE64BIT --timeout 5000 target && goto ${target}

                            :WIN7PE64BIT
                            initrd var/www/fog/Win7AIO/WindowsAIO.iso
                            chain memdisk iso raw ||
                            goto MENU

                            :WIN7PE32BIT
                            initrd [url]http://${fog-ip}/ISO/Win7PE_x86.ISO[/url]
                            chain memdisk iso raw ||
                            goto MENU

                            :ipxedemo
                            chain [url]http://boot.ipxe.org/demo/boot.php[/url] ||
                            goto MENU

                            :shell
                            shell ||
                            goto MENU

                            :return
                            chain [url]http://${fog-ip}/${fog-webroot}/service/ipxe/boot.php?mac=${net0/mac}[/url] ||
                            prompt
                            goto MENU

                            autoboot

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                              domii666
                              last edited by

                              pls help

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                              • J
                                jbsclm Developer
                                last edited by

                                The client doesn’t understand paths on the fog server, only http paths.

                                :WIN7PE64BIT
                                initrd var/www/fog/Win7AIO/WindowsAIO.iso
                                chain memdisk iso raw ||
                                goto MENU

                                Needs to be

                                :WIN7PE64BIT
                                initrd [URL=‘http://$%7Bfog-ip%7D/$%7Bfog-webroot%7D/service/ipxe/boot.php?mac=$%7Bnet0/mac%7D’]http://${fog-ip}/${fog-webroot}[/URL]/Win7AIO/WindowsAIO.iso
                                chain memdisk iso raw ||
                                goto MENU

                                OR

                                :WIN7PE64BIT
                                initrd [URL=‘http://$%7Bfog-ip%7D/$%7Bfog-webroot%7D/service/ipxe/boot.php?mac=$%7Bnet0/mac%7D’]http://${fog-ip}/fog[/URL]/Win7AIO/WindowsAIO.iso
                                chain memdisk iso raw ||
                                goto MENU

                                Both should tell the client to look in the same place, although the first form is preferable.

                                If this fails check your apache log, it will tell you where i is looking for the iso.

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                                • D
                                  domii666
                                  last edited by

                                  okay thx, where i find the apache log?

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                                  • J
                                    jbsclm Developer
                                    last edited by

                                    The log location is os dependent,

                                    Debian based Location (normally)
                                    /var/log/apache2
                                    Redhat based Location (normally)
                                    /var/log/httpd

                                    there are 2 logs, access.log and error.log.

                                    The messages you need will probably be in the access log, search for WindowsAIO.iso starting at the end, you should see a status 404, which says not found
                                    You can test by typing the following in to your browser

                                    [URL=‘http://$%7Bfog-ip%7D/$%7Bfog-webroot%7D/service/ipxe/boot.php?mac=$%7Bnet0/mac%7D’]http://<fog_ip_address>/fog[/URL]/Win7AIO/WindowsAIO.iso
                                    replacing <fog_ip_address> with your fog server ip.

                                    eg
                                    [URL=‘http://$%7Bfog-ip%7D/$%7Bfog-webroot%7D/service/ipxe/boot.php?mac=$%7Bnet0/mac%7D’]http://192.168.3.11/fog[/URL]/Win7AIO/WindowsAIO.iso

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                                      domii666
                                      last edited by

                                      my fog ip is 192.168.2.100

                                      is this correct? [URL=‘http://%24%7Bfog-ip%7D/$%7Bfog-webroot%7D/service/ipxe/boot.php?mac=$%7Bnet0/mac%7D’]http://${fog-ip}/${fog-webroot}[/URL]/Win7AIO/WindowsAIO.iso

                                      or [URL=‘http://%24%7Bfog-ip%7D/$%7Bfog-webroot%7D/service/ipxe/boot.php?mac=$%7Bnet0/mac%7D’]http://${192.168.2.100}/${fog-webroot}[/URL]/Win7AIO/WindowsAIO.iso

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                                      • JunkhackerJ
                                        Junkhacker Developer
                                        last edited by

                                        the first of those two is correct, assuming that you have that file located in /var/www/fog/Win7AIO/WindowsAIO.iso
                                        [URL=‘http://%24%7Bfog-ip%7D/$%7Bfog-webroot%7D/service/ipxe/boot.php?mac=$%7Bnet0/mac%7D’]${fog-ip}[/URL] is a variable set to your server’s IP, in your case “fog”
                                        [URL=‘http://%24%7Bfog-ip%7D/$%7Bfog-webroot%7D/service/ipxe/boot.php?mac=$%7Bnet0/mac%7D’]${fog-webroot}[/URL] is a variable set to the root of your fog installation, in your case “192.168.2.100”

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                                          domii666
                                          last edited by

                                          when i type [url]http://192.168.2.100/ISO/Windows8x64.iso[/url] it will start the download…i think it work but in the fog menu it goes direclty back to the menu.

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                                          • JunkhackerJ
                                            Junkhacker Developer
                                            last edited by

                                            if you paste your advanced menu code here, i will help you troubleshoot it
                                            please use the “code” format button when doing so.

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