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    • JunkhackerJ
      Junkhacker Developer
      last edited by

      minor correction for tom: each line of the ipxe file is seen as a new command, so the || at the end of a line only meand ‘do this’ “or” ‘nothing’
      if ‘do this’ fails, this is a failure to execute a command, if there is a “or” ‘nothing’ then the line is a success, because it successfully does nothing.
      each line after a ||
      will be executed

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        Danny Santiago
        last edited by

        Thank you to both of you. Good education. Although using the code copied from Tom with the IP-ADDRESS filled in I have a new problem. the advanced menu doesn’t appear any more. the screen flashes and returns to the standard menu. 😞 Is there a walk through or instructional guide available for the current release on how to set an ISO as a boot-able option? I am guessing not or you would have sent me that way already.

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          Danny Santiago
          last edited by

          Side note I was playing around with the iso and raw options as you can see where the DellDiag option had it and the VMware one didn’t I was hoping to find the magic combination but was unsuccessful.

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          • JunkhackerJ
            Junkhacker Developer
            last edited by

            just this one [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/fog-0-33b-edit-pxe-menu.10403/#post-26420[/url]

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            • JunkhackerJ
              Junkhacker Developer
              last edited by

              let’s try this again
              [CODE]
              set boot-url http://${fog-ip}/${fog-webroot}
              :MENU
              menu
              item --gap – City of Lewiston - Imaging and Diagnostics
              item VMware VMware - Live
              item DellDiag Dell Diagnostics
              item hostinfo Host Informaton (Your Machine Info)
              choose target && goto ${target}

              :VMware
              initrd ${boot-url}/service/ipxe/VMware/TinyCORE.iso
              chain memdisk iso raw ||
              echo failed to boot
              prompt
              goto MENU

              :DellDiag
              initrd ${boot-url}/service/ipxe/DellDiagnostics/DellDiag-7.iso
              chain memdisk iso raw ||
              echo failed to boot
              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
              [/CODE]

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                Danny Santiago
                last edited by

                It Worked! Your Awesome.

                [CODE]set boot-url http://${fog-ip}/${fog-webroot}
                :start-http
                menu City of Lewiston - Imaging and Diagnostics

                item VMware VMware - Live
                item DellDiag Dell Diagnostics
                item hostinfo Host Informaton (Your Machine Info)
                choose target && goto ${target}

                :VMware
                initrd ${boot-url}/ISO/VMware/TinyCORE.iso
                chain memdisk iso raw ||
                echo failed to boot
                prompt
                goto MENU

                :DellDiag
                initrd ${boot-url}/ISO/DellDiagnostics/DellDiag-7.iso
                chain memdisk iso raw ||
                echo failed to boot
                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
                MENU[/CODE]

                This worked nicely! I had to change the last MENU prompt from your code. For some reason it would through up a bunch of “stuff” (for lack of my current knowledge or caring as to what it was talking about) and would restart. Once I changed it the screen would refresh after the prompt to the menu. Before after the prompt it would do the restart thing.

                I also changed the main folder for the ISO images to one I noticed you used from your other posts. Made more sense and was easier. I wonder what memdisk file it is pulling up with the chain command compared to the original one where I specified the path.

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                  Danny Santiago
                  last edited by

                  Well I spoke to soon-ish. I can get TinyCore to boot but the GUI for it never loads it just boots into a terminal. on the same note the other items I have set to boot which all have the same settings just flash the menu screen back up. They don’t want to actually boot. 😕 bummer.

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                  • JunkhackerJ
                    Junkhacker Developer
                    last edited by

                    well, now that you have a basic idea how the ipxe menu system works, i suggest going over to ipxe.org to get more information about your specific boot needs

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                      Andy Morris
                      last edited by

                      I have the same issue with the Advanced Menu. If i choose the Advanced Menu it just flashes, the screen turns blue and has the default menu back on the screen. I had this working in version 1.0.1 and had to update to the latest 1.1.0 trunk to get my snapins to work. Not sure where to go from here. Any ideas?

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                        Andy Morris
                        last edited by

                        here is my code…

                        :MENU
                        menu
                        item --gap – ---------------- iPXE boot menu ----------------
                        item WIN7PE64BIT Win7 64bit Recovery Console
                        item WIN7PE32BIT Win7 32bit Recovery Console
                        item BOOTCD Hirens BootCD
                        item shell ipxe shell
                        item return return to previous menu
                        choose --default WIN7PE64BIT --timeout 5000 target && goto ${target}

                        :WIN7PE64BIT
                        initrd [url]http://${boot-url}/MenuItems/Win7-64bit/7rd64.iso[/url]
                        chain [url]http://${boot-url}/MenuItems/Win7-64bit/memdisk[/url] iso raw
                        goto MENU

                        :WIN7PE32BIT
                        initrd [url]http://${boot-url}/MenuItems/Win7-32bit/7rd32.iso[/url]
                        chain memdisk iso raw ||
                        goto MENU

                        :BOOTCD
                        initrd [url]http://${boot-url}/MenuItems/bootcd/bootcd14.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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                        • Tom ElliottT
                          Tom Elliott
                          last edited by

                          the ${boot-url} parameter already sets the http part of the url. So try this below:

                          menu
                          item --gap – ---------------- iPXE boot menu ----------------
                          item WIN7PE64BIT Win7 64bit Recovery Console
                          item WIN7PE32BIT Win7 32bit Recovery Console
                          item BOOTCD Hirens BootCD
                          item shell ipxe shell
                          item return return to previous menu
                          choose --default WIN7PE64BIT --timeout 5000 target && goto ${target}

                          :WIN7PE64BIT
                          initrd ${boot-url}/MenuItems/Win7-64bit/7rd64.iso
                          chain ${boot-url}/MenuItems/Win7-64bit/memdisk iso raw
                          goto MENU

                          :WIN7PE32BIT
                          initrd ${boot-url}/MenuItems/Win7-32bit/7rd32.iso
                          chain memdisk iso raw ||
                          goto MENU

                          :BOOTCD
                          initrd ${boot-url}/MenuItems/bootcd/bootcd14.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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                          • Tom ElliottT
                            Tom Elliott
                            last edited by

                            Ahhhh,

                            Yeah, it fails loading the console picture.

                            This is now fixed in SVN. Please update and sorry about that.

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                              Andy Morris
                              last edited by

                              That worked!!! Thanks a ton!

                              Andy

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                                Andy Morris
                                last edited by

                                Is there anyway to add the password option to these advanced items like in version .32?

                                Thanks,
                                Andy Morris

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                                • Tom ElliottT
                                  Tom Elliott
                                  last edited by

                                  Yes, and no.

                                  The password “options” are no longer using md5pass as they once where.

                                  The easiest method would be to add login prompts.

                                  I don’t know much more about all the details you’d need though.

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                                    Andy Morris
                                    last edited by

                                    Just wanted to protect the items like it did in .32. I will take a look.
                                    Thanks,

                                    Andy

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                                      Andy Morris
                                      last edited by

                                      That works!! Thanks again.

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                                        Eli Kelly
                                        last edited by

                                        I’m still experiencing Advanced Menu selection issue mentioned by Danny and Andy. Screen flickers and default menu appears with blue background.

                                        Tested with svn 1783 and 1799

                                        I will update the subversion again now to see if there is any difference.

                                        I’ve been using Junkhackers sample code from [URL=‘http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/fog-0-33b-edit-pxe-menu.10403/#post-26419’]this post[/URL]

                                        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 [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[/FONT]

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                                        • JunkhackerJ
                                          Junkhacker Developer
                                          last edited by

                                          check for typo’s and/or hidden symbols from copying and pasting. ipxe is very picky
                                          [url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Advanced_Boot_Menu_Configuration_options[/url]

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                                            Eli Kelly
                                            last edited by

                                            Hmm… I’ve tried clearing the field and retyping from scratch and still the same issue persists.

                                            I also tried just typing basic commands in the field:

                                            [CODE]echo hello world[/CODE]
                                            [CODE]shell[/CODE]

                                            I even tried to change the background to something obvious…
                                            [CODE]cpair --foreground 3 --background 6 0[/CODE]

                                            No matter what I put in the Advance Menu Code field the result is still a blue background with the default menu list

                                            As expected if I leave the field blank the Advance Menu option is not listed on the default menu. Same result with svn 1801. Perhaps I will roll up my sleeves and dig into /var/www/html/fog/service/ipxe/advanced.php

                                            Appreciate any guidance.

                                            Thanks

                                            Eli

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