IPXE Advanced Menu or Memdisk Problem
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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 Diagnosticsitem 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 ||
promptgoto 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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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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What does the “Exit to Hard Drive Type” do/change?
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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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[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 MENUautoboot
[/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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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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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] -
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 MENUautoboot[/FONT]
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That works!! Thanks again.
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Just wanted to protect the items like it did in .32. I will take a look.
Thanks,Andy
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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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Is there anyway to add the password option to these advanced items like in version .32?
Thanks,
Andy Morris -
That worked!!! Thanks a ton!
Andy
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Ahhhh,
Yeah, it fails loading the console picture.
This is now fixed in SVN. Please update and sorry about that.
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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 MENUautoboot[/code]
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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 MENUautoboot
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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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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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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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It Worked! Your Awesome.
[CODE]set boot-url http://${fog-ip}/${fog-webroot}
:start-http
menu City of Lewiston - Imaging and Diagnosticsitem 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.