IPXE Advanced Menu or Memdisk Problem

[Junkhacker]

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]

[Eli Kelly]

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

[Tom Elliott]

[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.

[Eli Kelly]

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.

[Elias Santiago]

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

[Junkhacker]

it changes how ipxe attempts to exit and allow the computer to the hard drive. different bios may require different methods to boot properly