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    IPXE Advanced Menu or Memdisk Problem

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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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        • Tom ElliottT
          Tom Elliott
          last edited by

          [quote=“Eli Kelly, post: 29865, member: 1152”]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[/quote]

          I’d start here:
          [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]

          Remove the prompt because it doesn’t know how to interpret the prompt itself is what I’m guessing. Maybe you wanted:
          [code]
          :return
          chain http://${fog-ip}/${fog-webroot}/service/ipxe/boot.php?mac=${net0/mac} || prompt && goto MENU
          [/code]

          The || and a new line just tells iPXE to if it fails, do nothing successfully, which it’s doing, but it doesn’t know how to pass back. It could also be the :MENU setting, but that shouldn’t matter too much.

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            Eli Kelly
            last edited by

            My issue is fixed. I posted my update in the wrong thread. The full answer is here:
            [URL=‘http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/fog-0-33b-edit-pxe-menu.10403/page-2#post-30033’]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/fog-0-33b-edit-pxe-menu.10403/page-2#post-30029[/URL]

            Basically my advanced.php was out of date and wasn’t being updated in svn updates. Hard coding my server IP fixed advanced menus for me.

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              Elias Santiago
              last edited by

              What does the “Exit to Hard Drive Type” do/change?

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              • JunkhackerJ
                Junkhacker Developer
                last edited by

                it changes how ipxe attempts to exit and allow the computer to the hard drive. different bios may require different methods to boot properly

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