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      Danny Santiago last edited by

      I am not sure if I have my advanced menu written poorly or if I have a problem with my memdisk file. I tried another memdisk file provided in another post

      [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/pxe-boot-goldmemory.12/[/url]

      This had no change. Below is my Advanced menu script and below that I will include my error message.

      #/ Begin Boot Menu. the Pound and slash are not part of the menu script
      set fog-server IP-ADDRESS
      set boot-url [url]http://IP-ADDRESS/fog/[/url]

      :start-http
      menu City of Lewiston - Imaging and Diagnostics

      item VMware VMware - Live
      item DellDiag Dell Diagnostics
      item hostinfo Host Informaton (Your Machine Info)

      #item foginfo FOG system info

      choose fog-opt && goto ${fog-opt}

      :VMware
      initrd [url]http://IP-ADDRESS/fog/service/ipxe/VMware/TinyCORE.iso[/url] raw
      kernel [url]http://IP-ADDRESS/fog/service/ipxe/memdisk[/url]
      boot

      :DellDiag
      initrd [url]http://IP-ADDRESS/fog/service/ipxe/DellDiagnostics/DellDiag-7.iso[/url]
      kernel [url]http://IP-ADDRESS/fog/service/ipxe/memdisk[/url] iso raw ||
      boot

      :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

      /#end menu

      MEMDISK: Image has fraction end sector
      MEMDISK: Image seems to have fractional end cylinder
      Disk is hd0, 37038 k, C/H/S = 36/64/32 (guess/guess), EDD on, rw
      Using safe INT 15h access to high memory
      Total size needed = 2381 bytes, allocating 3K
      Old dos memory at 0x8e400 (map says 0e8400), loading at 0x8d800
      1588: 0xffff 15E801: 0x3c00 0x7b17
      INT 13 08: Success, count = 2, BPT = 0000:0000
      old: int13 = 8e40000a int15 = 8e40037f int1e = f000efc7
      new: int13 = 8d40000a int15 = 8d80037f int1e = f000efc7
      Loading boot sector… booting… <------ This is where the machine will hang forever.

      I can’t seem to make it past this part.

      any help would be appreciated and an education would be even more appreciated! 🙂

      Note to the Developers:

      Awesome Product and Service you provide. Just plain incredible.

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      • Junkhacker
        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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          Elias Santiago last edited by

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

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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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            • Tom Elliott
              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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              Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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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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                • Junkhacker
                  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

                    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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                      Andy Morris last edited by

                      That works!! Thanks again.

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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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                        • Tom Elliott
                          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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                          Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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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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                              Andy Morris last edited by

                              That worked!!! Thanks a ton!

                              Andy

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                              • Tom Elliott
                                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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                                Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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                                • Tom Elliott
                                  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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                                  Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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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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                                      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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                                      • Junkhacker
                                        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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                                          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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                                            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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