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      kinger37
      last edited by

      @george1421 Thank you for this tutorial - it worked great but I did discover that these steps are not compatible if booting into FOG using UEFI, it only works if using Legacy. When I tried at first using UEFI, it would load to the boot menu and once I picked my WinPE entry iPXE would fail with this error “Could not boot: Exec format error (http://ipxe.org/2e008081)”. Then i tried using Legacy mode to boot into Fog and launched my iso and it worked like a charm. I know this is not a fog issue but iPXE but figured I would post this in case someone else come across this issue.

      @Wayne-Workman I think this would be a good note to add when these steps are added to wiki.

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      • george1421G
        george1421 Moderator @kinger37
        last edited by

        @kinger37 Thank you for reporting this.

        To be honest it was only written and tested with bios (legacy) mode in mind. I’m going to suspect this is a uefi/memdisk issue. UEFI is a different critter so I suspect there might have some issues. Also I’d have to circle back to see if the MDT image supports uefi booting. Either way I should update the article to only indicate that legacy mode is required.

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          lebrun78
          last edited by

          Hello

          How could I had a password access to this new item in boot menu ?

          Fog Version: Fog 1.5.10
          Server OS: AlmaLinux release 8.8

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            lebrun78
            last edited by

            Looking at the httpd log, all files are loaded but I get a blinking cursor on my testing vm.
            I suppose it’s a problem with bcd, may be the path is incorrect ?

            192.168.122.10 - - [01/Dec/2016:11:54:34 +0100] "POST /fog/service/ipxe/boot.php HTTP/1.1" 200 1493 "-" "iPXE/1.0.0+ (3a02)"
192.168.122.10 - - [01/Dec/2016:11:54:34 +0100] "GET /fog/service/ipxe/bg.png HTTP/1.1" 200 44908 "-" "iPXE/1.0.0+ (3a02)"
192.168.122.10 - - [01/Dec/2016:11:54:38 +0100] "GET /fog/service/ipxe/advanced.php HTTP/1.1" 200 437 "-" "iPXE/1.0.0+ (3a02)"
192.168.122.10 - - [01/Dec/2016:11:54:38 +0100] "GET /wimboot HTTP/1.1" 301 316 "-" "iPXE/1.0.0+ (3a02)"
192.168.122.10 - - [01/Dec/2016:11:54:38 +0100] "GET /wimboot/ HTTP/1.1" 200 1298 "-" "iPXE/1.0.0+ (3a02)"
192.168.122.10 - - [01/Dec/2016:11:54:38 +0100] "GET /mdtboot/x64/media/Boot/BCD HTTP/1.1" 200 262144 "-" "iPXE/1.0.0+ (3a02)"
192.168.122.10 - - [01/Dec/2016:11:54:38 +0100] "GET /mdtboot/x64/media/Boot/boot.sdi HTTP/1.1" 200 3170304 "-" "iPXE/1.0.0+ (3a02)"
192.168.122.10 - - [01/Dec/2016:11:54:38 +0100] "GET /mdtboot/LiteTouchPE_x64.wim HTTP/1.1" 200 298875280 "-" "iPXE/1.0.0+ (3a02)"

            Fog Version: Fog 1.5.10
            Server OS: AlmaLinux release 8.8

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            • george1421G
              george1421 Moderator @lebrun78
              last edited by

              @lebrun78 Well what I see I’m not sure of. There is one of two that are wrong.

              I see this line
              GET /mdtboot/x64/media/Boot/BCD
              and this line
              GET /mdtboot/LiteTouchPE_x64.wim

              but the config file says this:
              initrd http://${next-server}/mdtboot/${arch}/ISO/boot/bcd BCD
              and
              initrd -n boot.wim http://${next-server}/mdtboot/LiteTouchPE_${arch}.wim boot.wim

              While I’m just guessing, I might expect the BCD line to be wrong. On the web server its getting /mdtboot/x64/media/Boot/BCD but the real file name is bcd not BCD. The other thing you have bcd in a different path than the instructions as CaSE iS important for linux. Make sure you have the directory structure setup as I have it outlined in Method 2

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                lebrun78
                last edited by lebrun78

                I had ti change the case of bcd because it is like this, in uppercase that was generate by copype.
                So I change that in the ipxe menu config.

                cpuid --ext 29 && set arch x64 || set arch x86
kernel http://${next-server}/wimboot
initrd http://${next-server}/mdtboot/${arch}/media/Boot/BCD BCD
initrd http://${next-server}/mdtboot/${arch}/media/Boot/boot.sdi boot.sdi
initrd -n boot.wim http://${next-server}/mdtboot/LiteTouchPE_${arch}.wim boot.wim
boot
Menu show with: All Hosts```

Should I change the case of the bcd file ?

                Fog Version: Fog 1.5.10
                Server OS: AlmaLinux release 8.8

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                • george1421G
                  george1421 Moderator @lebrun78
                  last edited by

                  @lebrun78 well this one has me a bit perplexed.

                  I want you to post the output of the following commands.
                  ls -la /var/www/html
                  and
                  ls -la /var/www/html/mdtboot
                  and
                  ls -la /var/www/html/mdtboot/x64/media/Boot

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                    lebrun78
                    last edited by

                    Here are the results :

                    ls -la /var/www/html
total 36
drwxr-xr-x  6 root   root   4096  1 déc.  10:42 .
drwxr-xr-x  6 root   root   4096 19 nov.  00:49 ..
drwxr-xr-x 11 apache apache 4096 23 nov.  12:15 fog
drwxr-xr-x 12 apache apache 4096  8 oct.   2012 fog.prev
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root     68  8 oct.   2012 index.html
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root     45 18 mai    2015 #index.php#
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root     45  8 oct.   2012 index.php
drwxr-xr-x  4 root   root   4096  1 déc.  11:54 mdtboot
drwxr-xr-x  3 root   root   4096  1 déc.  10:16 wimboot

                    ls -la /var/www/html/mdtboot
total 516716
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root      4096  1 déc.  11:54 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root      4096  1 déc.  10:42 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 298875280  3 nov.  17:13 LiteTouchPE_x64.wim
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 230219137  3 nov.  17:09 LiteTouchPE_x86.wim
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root      4096  1 déc.  11:53 x64
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root      4096  1 déc.  11:54 x86

                    ls -la /var/www/html/mdtboot/x64/media/Boot
total 4300
drwxr-xr-x 40 root root    4096 29 nov.  17:13 .
drwxr-xr-x 41 root root    4096 29 nov.  17:13 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  262144 25 mai    2016 BCD
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 29 nov.  17:13 bg-bg
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    1024 25 mai    2016 bootfix.bin
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 3170304 25 mai    2016 boot.sdi
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 29 nov.  17:13 cs-cz
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 29 nov.  17:13 da-dk
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 29 nov.  17:13 de-de
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 29 nov.  17:13 el-gr
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 29 nov.  17:13 en-gb
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 29 nov.  17:13 en-us
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 29 nov.  17:13 es-es
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 29 nov.  17:13 es-mx
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 29 nov.  17:13 et-ee
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 29 nov.  17:13 fi-fi
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 29 nov.  17:13 Fonts
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 29 nov.  17:13 fr-ca
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 29 nov.  17:13 fr-fr
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 29 nov.  17:13 hr-hr
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 29 nov.  17:13 hu-hu
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 29 nov.  17:13 it-it
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 29 nov.  17:13 ja-jp
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 29 nov.  17:13 ko-kr
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 29 nov.  17:13 lt-lt
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 29 nov.  17:13 lv-lv
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  799072 15 juil. 19:06 memtest.exe
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 29 nov.  17:13 nb-no
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 29 nov.  17:13 nl-nl
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 29 nov.  17:13 pl-pl
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 29 nov.  17:13 pt-br
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 29 nov.  17:13 pt-pt
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 29 nov.  17:13 Resources
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 29 nov.  17:13 ro-ro
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 29 nov.  17:13 ru-ru
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 29 nov.  17:13 sk-sk
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 29 nov.  17:13 sl-si
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 29 nov.  17:13 sr-latn-rs
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 29 nov.  17:13 sv-se
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 29 nov.  17:13 tr-tr
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 29 nov.  17:13 uk-ua
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 29 nov.  17:13 zh-cn
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 29 nov.  17:13 zh-hk
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 29 nov.  17:13 zh-tw

                    Fog Version: Fog 1.5.10
                    Server OS: AlmaLinux release 8.8

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                    • george1421G
                      george1421 Moderator @lebrun78
                      last edited by george1421

                      @lebrun78 The thing that jumps out to me is that wimboot is file not a directory. The wimboot file is the kernel that merges all of these files together.

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                        lebrun78
                        last edited by

                        @george1421 that was my error.
                        I copy wimboot file from its directory to /var/www/html and it works.

                        Thanks a lot

                        Fog Version: Fog 1.5.10
                        Server OS: AlmaLinux release 8.8

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                          lebrun78
                          last edited by

                          Hello

                          How could I had a password to limit access to this wim boot item in boot menu ?

                          Fog Version: Fog 1.5.10
                          Server OS: AlmaLinux release 8.8

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                            poizzon
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                              zingaro
                              last edited by

                              Hi,
                              on my systems these methods works with only Legacy BIOS.
                              Could you indicate how starts the same wimpe systems with pc that have only BIOS Uefi ?

                              Note: for windows 10 o.s. installed on PC’s with UEFI BIOS the Bios show the option “Windows BootManager option” for start from first HD

                              Regards

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                              • george1421G
                                george1421 Moderator @zingaro
                                last edited by

                                @zingaro TBH I have never tried in uefi mode.

                                As for your note: if these are dell computers, when in uefi mode you need to enable the uefi network stack (on the network page) in the firmware. I assume other OS will have similar options. On the boot options, it will only show valid uefi boot sources so you do need to enable the uefi network stack for that option to show up.

                                Your MDT boot image should contain the uefi boot kernel. In my case we use VMWare and boot our target computers directly from the mdt iso in uefi mode. They boot without an issue, but again I’m not sending the iso image across the network with pxe.

                                I can confirm uefi booting via pxe works with these instructions tomorrow since I’m out of the office today for training.

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