Windows 7 image on Hyper-v wont boot from ipxe

jahilton2002

Hi guys, I did a refresh install of 14.04.1/1.20 today.

Thought i was on to much of a roll… all my clients boot to ipxe ok … i can upload download images fine… just one machine is giving me an issue… my primary windows image machine (typical).

It’s a windows 7 image hosted on a Hyper-v r2 server. i get the following error. after some research it seems a few have had this issue.

Any help or direction would be great. thanks

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Junkhacker

yes, a few have had this issue, and the fix is posted multiple times. comment out the console lines in the php file

jahilton2002

Hi,

Thanks for the reply… is it this post you speak of?

[quote=“netbootdisk, post: 32501, member: 5249”]Had the same problem with 1.1.2 and Hyper-V 2012R2.

I just made the {fogwebdir}/lib/fog/BootMenu.class.php line 600 hack conditional…

[PHP]
if (substr($_REQUEST[‘mac’],0,8)==“00:15:5d”){
print “# Hyper-V MAC address detected - no console background\n”;
} else {
print “console --picture $this->booturl/ipxe/bg.png --left 100 --right 80\n”;
}
[/PHP]

[SIZE=13px][FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=#141414]…Now all users still see the corporate branded background - and I can still capture master images in Hyper V :)[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/quote][SIZE=13px][FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=#141414][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]

thanks again

Junkhacker

that looks right

jahilton2002

thanks for your reply…looking at my [I][SIZE=12px]BootMenu.class.php file. l[/SIZE][/I][SIZE=12px]ine 600 looks nothing like the above… do you know what i should be changing from?[/SIZE]

What should the code look like before i change it. Thanks again
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jahilton2002

I can’t seem to get this working…

Junkhacker

the line with "[COLOR=#007700][I][FONT=monospace]print [/FONT][/I][/COLOR][COLOR=#dd0000][I][FONT=monospace]“console --picture [/FONT][/I][/COLOR][COLOR=#0000bb][I][FONT=monospace]$this[/FONT][/I][/COLOR][COLOR=#007700][I][FONT=monospace]->[/FONT][/I][/COLOR][COLOR=#0000bb][I][FONT=monospace]booturl[/FONT][/I][/COLOR][COLOR=#dd0000][I][FONT=monospace]/ipxe/bg.png[/FONT][/I][/COLOR]” is your problem, it’s trying to bring up a console image, and hyper-v doesn’t seem to work properly for that. if you remove that line entirely, it will probably work for you. though, non of your computers will have the nice pretty boot menu anymore

jahilton2002

I’ve made the below changes and my hyper-v ipxe is still unable to boot… i also tried to // the line also but it too didn’t have any effect.

thanks

------------OLD-----------

print “#!ipxe\n”;
print “cpuid --ext 29 && set arch x86_64 || set arch i386\n”;
print “colour --rgb 0xff6600 2\n”;
print “cpair --foreground 7 --background 2 2\n”;
if (substr($_REQUEST[‘mac’],0,8)==“00:15:5d”){
print “# Hyper-V MAC address detected - no console background\n”;
} else {
print “console --picture $this->booturl/ipxe/bg.png --left 100 --right 80\n”;
if (!$this->hiddenmenu)
{
$showDebug = $_REQUEST[“debug”] === “1”;
print “:MENU\n”;
print “menu\n”;
// Checks if the host is registered or not.
// Displays the Host name if it is, otherwise
// Tells the user it’s not registered.
if ($this->Host && $this->Host->isValid()

--------------new------------

print “#!ipxe\n”;
print “cpuid --ext 29 && set arch x86_64 || set arch i386\n”;
print “colour --rgb 0xff6600 2\n”;
print “cpair --foreground 7 --background 2 2\n”;
if (substr($_REQUEST[‘mac’],0,8)==“00:15:5d”){
print “# Hyper-V MAC address detected - no console background\n”;
} else {
if (!$this->hiddenmenu)
{
$showDebug = $_REQUEST[“debug”] === “1”;
print “:MENU\n”;
print “menu\n”;
// Checks if the host is registered or not.
// Displays the Host name if it is, otherwise
// Tells the user it’s not registered.
if ($this->Host && $this->Host->isValid()

jahilton2002

i have this at the momment;

print “#!ipxe\n”;
print “cpuid --ext 29 && set arch x86_64 || set arch i386\n”;
print “colour --rgb 0xff6600 2\n”;
print “cpair --foreground 7 --background 2 2\n”;
[B]//print “console --picture $this->booturl/ipxe/bg.png --left 100 --right 80\n”;[/B]
} else {
if (!$this->hiddenmenu)
{
$showDebug = $_REQUEST[“debug”] === “1”;
print “:MENU\n”;
print “menu\n”;
// Checks if the host is registered or not.
// Displays the Host name if it is, otherwise
// Tells the user it’s not registered.
if ($this->Host && $this->Host->isValid()

jahilton2002

Sorry just an update…got this working using the above post#9

thanks for all your help

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jahilton2002

I’m pulling my hair out now, as i had it working!.. i had to do a reinstall of fog as i started to get odd errors… im back to square one again now. Hyper-v wont boot to ipxe… i’ve tried to re enter my settings as in post 9# and after a restart. it nolonger works…

i’ve restored the menuboot.class.php to the default settings…(as below) any ideas?

[CODE]

    print "#!ipxe\n";
    print "cpuid --ext 29 && set arch x86_64 || set arch i386\n";
    print "colour --rgb 0xff6600 2\n";
    print "cpair --foreground 7 --background 2 2\n";
    if (substr($_REQUEST['mac'],0,8)=="00:15:5d"){
                    print "# Hyper-V MAC address detected - no console background\n";
            } else  {
                    print "console --picture $this->booturl/ipxe/bg.png --left 100 --right 80\n";
    if (!$this->hiddenmenu)
    {
        $showDebug = $_REQUEST["debug"] === "1";
        print ":MENU\n";
        print "menu\n";

[/CODE]

Tom Elliott

Did you literally restore the file as menuboot.class.php?

It’s name should be BootMenu.class.php (case important.)

jahilton2002

sorry, thats a typo on my part…BootMenu.class.php is what was restored. thanks

jahilton2002

any recommendations.

BPSTravis

Can you walk us trough exactly what you get now? Does it grab an IP to PXE to, does anything from fog show up, does it retrieve the init.xz or the bzimage file?

jahilton2002

Hi thanks for your reply… it looks just like it does now in post #1… that’s my hyper-v windows 7 machine… all other physical clients are unaffected

thanks

BPSTravis

Ok, did you comment out this line as you did before?

[QUOTE][B]//print “console --picture $this->booturl/ipxe/bg.png --left 100 --right 80\n”[/B][/QUOTE]

[QUOTE]sorry, thats a typo on my part…BootMenu.class.php is what was restored. thanks[/QUOTE]
By restored i’m assuming you put the default menu back in.

jahilton2002

Thank you for looking into this.

And yes sir. [B][I][SIZE=12px]//print “console --picture $this->booturl/ipxe/bg.png --left 100 --right 80\n” [/SIZE][/I][/B][I][SIZE=12px]in place[/SIZE][/I]

and yes the default file was put back in place.

Tom Elliott

If you want,

You can try the lastest svn too.

Since 1.2.0 I’ve learned how to test whether the console part will operate or not and adjust the screen accordingly.

jahilton2002

Did a fresh reinstall of 14.01.1 today…aswell as fog 1.2.0… commentied the line out of BootMenu.class.php.

[B][I][SIZE=12px]//print “console --picture $this->booturl/ipxe/bg.png --left 100 --right 80\n”[/SIZE][/I][/B]

[SIZE=12px]s[/SIZE][SIZE=12px]till the same as post #1 nothing to do with having teamed network cards?[/SIZE]

[SIZE=12px]When i installed fog… i changed from “eth0” to “bond0”[/SIZE]

[SIZE=12px]all clients boot to ipxe fine… hyper-v boots to ipxe but fails to load the bg. as in post one.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=12px]i’m stumped.[/SIZE][SIZE=12px] [/SIZE]

Windows 7 image on Hyper-v wont boot from ipxe

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