PXE boot chainloading to WDS

[Lee Rowlett]

Hi all,

we currect have FOG and WDS co-existing at the moment until we completely transfer everything to FOG, we’ve been able to chainload from WDS PXE to FOG PXE menu however trying to chainload from FOG PXE to the WDS PXE does not work, can anyone help?

This works and reaches FOG on WDS Server PXE Menu:
[COLOR=#ff0000]# Option 3 - Pass Thru 2 FOG[/COLOR]
[COLOR=#ff0000]LABEL fog[/COLOR]
[COLOR=#ff0000] MENU LABEL ^FOG Imaging Server[/COLOR]
[COLOR=#ff0000] MENU PASSWD[/COLOR]
[COLOR=#ff0000] kernel pxechn.c32[/COLOR]

[COLOR=#ff0000] APPEND IPADDRESSOFFOGPXE::pxelinux.0[/COLOR]

This is failing to reach WDS Server from FOG PXE Menu
[COLOR=#ff0000]LABEL WDS[/COLOR]
[COLOR=#ff0000]kernel chain.c32[/COLOR]
[COLOR=#ff0000] append IPOFWDSPXESERVER::pxelinux.0[/COLOR]
[COLOR=#ff0000]MENU LABEL WDS Server[/COLOR]
[COLOR=#ff0000]TEXT HELP[/COLOR]
[COLOR=#ff0000]Loads the WDS Imaging Environment.[/COLOR]
[COLOR=#ff0000]ENDTEXT[/COLOR]

[Lee Rowlett]

::pxelinux.0 should be : : pxelinux.0 (without spaces)

[StuE]

Don’t think there’s a way to do it with “chain.32”. I found other references to “pxechain.com” from the linux utilities.
I added the following and it seemed to start booting but unfortunately didn’t boot WDS:

LABEL Windows Deployment Services
kernel pxechain.com
append IPADDRESSGOESHERE::boot\x64\pxeboot.n12
MENU LABEL Windows Deployment Services
TEXT HELP
Loads the Windows Deployment Services Imaging Environment.
ENDTEXT

So I’m going to give up on this one and do what everyone else seems to have done.
Which is to put the linux boot files onto the WDS location and modify from there instead.
Reference: [url]http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/WDSLINUX[/url]

Actually, someone found this as well (multi-PXE boot) which I might try out first:
[url]http://www.vcritical.com/2011/06/peaceful-coexistence-wds-and-linux-pxe-servers/[/url]