Extra menus / Advanced menu no longer working in 1.3.5

[AndrewC]

Server

• FOG Version: 1.3.5-RC-7
• OS: Ubuntu 16.04

Description

I posted previously about custom menus not working under UEFI, but working okay with BIOS booting. I have since come to realize that all custom menus are no longer working no matter what image I am booting (tested with a VM as well as 3 different physical systems). I understand that since I’m using the latest RC that there are bound to be bugs, but I have not seen anyone else report this problem as of yet.

As a test I enabled the built-in Advanced menu item, and made it accessible to all. I then wrote a very simple 2-line menu to see if it would work to no avail. I got the same result:

Usage:

  choose [-m|–menu <menu>] [-d|–default <default>] [-t|–timeout <timeout>] [-k|–keep] <setting>

See http://ipxe.org/cmd/choose for further information
Could not boot: Result too large (http://ipxe.org/46162085)
Could not boot: Result too large (http://ipxe.org/46162085)
Chainloading failed, hit ‘s’ for the iPXE shell; reboot in 10 seconds

It seems the “choose” command in the menus is somehow not the correct perimeters, but I was not able to get the menu to display no matter how I set it. This worked perfectly fine until about the 1.3.5 RCs. I’m not sure if this is an overall bug, or some kind of mis-configuration of my system. Any ideas?

[Tom Elliott]

Can you give us your advanced menu to actually look at?

[AndrewC]

Here is an example of the test menu I threw together in Advanced just to see if I could get it to work:

menu Just a Test Menu
item DebianTest Run the Debian 8.7.1 (64-bit) net/installer
item ReturnTest Return to previous
choose target && goto ${target}
:DebianTest
kernel http://${fog-ip}/debian87x/linux
initrd http://${fog-ip}/debian87x/initrd.gz
imgargs linux vga=788
boot || goto MENU
:ReturnTest
chain http://${fog-ip}/${fog-webroot}/service/ipxe/boot.php?mac=${net0/mac} || prompt
goto MENU

Regardless of what is included in the menu or how much… it always fails with the usage statement for the “choose” command. I have tried every possible way to phrase that command, but get the same result. “choose target && goto ${target}” in the test menu was taken right from the iPXE.org website.

[Tom Elliott]

Please update to RC 8. I just pushed it up and it corrects this, which is why I moved this into the “bugs” and solved it.

[Junkhacker]

edit: never mind

[AndrewC]

@Tom-Elliott said in Extra menus / Advanced menu no longer working in 1.3.5:

Please update to RC 8. I just pushed it up and it corrects this, which is why I moved this into the “bugs” and solved it.

You da man! RC-8 definitely fixed the custom menus. They now load perfectly fine in BIOS or EFI. Everything boots successfully from the menus with one exception… apparently Memtest is now broken. Running Memtest stops loading, and it hangs at “Loading boot sector… booting…”

Edit: Nevermind… the Memtest issue was related to a buggy test machine. It works on all others. Disregard

[Tom Elliott]

@AndrewC I’m not seeing the problem, but I would imagine you are seeing this in particular with EFI style systems?

[AndrewC]

@Tom-Elliott said:

@AndrewC I’m not seeing the problem, but I would imagine you are seeing this in particular with EFI style systems?

Yes. It was an issue with the particular test machine. Did not have a problem with any others BIOS or EFI. Worry not.