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    • D
      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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      • Tom ElliottT
        Tom Elliott
        last edited by

        In the advanced.php file we already have a setting that gets your systems ip and webroot.
        The start of the file is:
        [code]print “#!ipxe\n”;
        print “console\n”;
        print “set fog-ip “.$FOGCore->getSetting(‘FOG_WEB_HOST’).”\n”;
        print “set fog-webroot “.basename($FOGCore->getSetting(‘FOG_WEB_ROOT’)).”\n”;[/code]

        What does this mean? You don’t need to set the same fields unless you’re trying to point it another server. The only exception would be the boot url with:
        [code]set boot-url http://${fog-ip}/${fog-webroot}[/code]

        So your code as below:
        [code]
        set fog-server IP-ADDRESS
        set boot-url http://IP-ADDRESS/fog/

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

        :DellDiag
        initrd http://IP-ADDRESS/fog/service/ipxe/DellDiagnostics/DellDiag-7.iso
        kernel http://IP-ADDRESS/fog/service/ipxe/memdisk 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[/code] Should “work” but I don’t know where it’s failing specifically. The nice part is you probably are calling the wrong method: Memdisk should always call the type of file and method (e.g. iso raw) So I’d try this:
        [code]set boot-url http://IP-ADDRESS/fog/
        :MENU
        menu
        item --gap – City of Lewiston - Imaging and Diagnostics
        item VMware VMware - Live
        item DellDiag Dell Diagnostics
        item hostinfo Host Informaton (Your Machine Info)
        choose fog-opt target && goto ${target}
        :VMware
        initrd ${boot-url}/service/ipxe/VMware/TinyCORE.iso
        chain ${boot-url}/service/ipxe/memdisk raw iso
        boot
        :DellDiag
        initrd ${boot-url}/service/ipxe/DellDiagnostics/DellDiag-7.iso
        chain ${boot-url}/service/ipxe/memdisk iso raw
        boot
        :hostinfo
        echo This computer :
        echo MAC address…${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[/code]

        Hopefully this helps. Remember that the || means OR that. So your hostinfo would only print This computer: MAC Address…${net0/mac} OR IP Address OR Netmask OR Serial only as things failed.

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        • JunkhackerJ
          Junkhacker Developer
          last edited by

          minor correction for tom: each line of the ipxe file is seen as a new command, so the || at the end of a line only meand ‘do this’ “or” ‘nothing’
          if ‘do this’ fails, this is a failure to execute a command, if there is a “or” ‘nothing’ then the line is a success, because it successfully does nothing.
          each line after a ||
          will be executed

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          • D
            Danny Santiago
            last edited by

            Thank you to both of you. Good education. Although using the code copied from Tom with the IP-ADDRESS filled in I have a new problem. the advanced menu doesn’t appear any more. the screen flashes and returns to the standard menu. 😞 Is there a walk through or instructional guide available for the current release on how to set an ISO as a boot-able option? I am guessing not or you would have sent me that way already.

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            • D
              Danny Santiago
              last edited by

              Side note I was playing around with the iso and raw options as you can see where the DellDiag option had it and the VMware one didn’t I was hoping to find the magic combination but was unsuccessful.

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              • JunkhackerJ
                Junkhacker Developer
                last edited by

                just this one [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/fog-0-33b-edit-pxe-menu.10403/#post-26420[/url]

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                • JunkhackerJ
                  Junkhacker Developer
                  last edited by

                  let’s try this again
                  [CODE]
                  set boot-url http://${fog-ip}/${fog-webroot}
                  :MENU
                  menu
                  item --gap – 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}/service/ipxe/VMware/TinyCORE.iso
                  chain memdisk iso raw ||
                  echo failed to boot
                  prompt
                  goto MENU

                  :DellDiag
                  initrd ${boot-url}/service/ipxe/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
                  goto MENU
                  [/CODE]

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                  • D
                    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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                    • D
                      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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                      • JunkhackerJ
                        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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                          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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                            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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                            • Tom ElliottT
                              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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                              • Tom ElliottT
                                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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                                • A
                                  Andy Morris
                                  last edited by

                                  That worked!!! Thanks a ton!

                                  Andy

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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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                                    • Tom ElliottT
                                      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

                                        Just wanted to protect the items like it did in .32. I will take a look.
                                        Thanks,

                                        Andy

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                                          Andy Morris
                                          last edited by

                                          That works!! Thanks again.

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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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