Adding Hirens 15.2 boot cd to the boot menu

[Wayne Workman]

@goempie Looks that way, yes. And looks like they are using the standard Memdisk kernel too.

[Wayne Workman]

@goempie But I don’t think that fog has a boot-url iPXE variable. You may need to piece that together with the fog-ip variable and set a path like in the other examples.

[goempie]

@Wayne-Workman what is the path to the memdisk kernel?

[Wayne Workman]

@goempie said in Adding Hirens 15.2 boot cd to the boot menu:

at is the path to the memdisk kernel?

Look at the boot menu entry for memdisk… You should be able to see it through the web interface.

[goempie]

@Wayne-Workman

nope nothing to see here

[Wayne Workman]

@goempie
I pulled this from the boot.php output when I gave it a registered MAC as a parameter.
http://x.x.x.x/fog/service/ipxe/boot.php?mac0=00:1e:37:54:9b:70

kernel memdisk iso raw
initrd memtest.bin
boot || goto MENU

[goempie]

@Wayne-Workman
I moved the hbcd.iso to the directory /var/www/fog/iso/hbcd.iso
Then i changed the menu entry, but no party

:hbcd
#open iso with iso editor and remove pmagic to make it ligther
set path /fog/iso
set nfs_path /var/www/fog/iso/15.04_64
initrd ${fog-ip}${path}/fog/iso/hbcd.iso
kernel ${fog-ip}$ kernel memdisk iso raw || goto failed
boot || goto failed
goto start

[Wayne Workman]

@goempie the pathing is wrong. you already have /fog/iso in your path variable, don’t need to do it again.

also I don’t think you have to specify an IP for the memdisk kernel.

[goempie]

@Wayne-Workman

Yes i saw it after i posted it.
This is what i have now
But still no champagne
:hbcd
#open iso with iso editor and remove pmagic to make it ligther
initrd ${fog-ip}/fog/iso/hbcd.iso
kernel memdisk iso raw || goto failed
boot || goto failed
goto start

[Wayne Workman]

@goempie

try

:hbcd
#open iso with iso editor and remove pmagic to make it ligther
initrd ${fog-ip}/fog/iso/hbcd.iso
kernel memdisk iso raw
boot || goto failed
goto start

also - make sure the permissions on the iso are good, can you see it in a web browser?

[goempie]

@Wayne-Workman said in Adding Hirens 15.2 boot cd to the boot menu:

:hbcd
#open iso with iso editor and remove pmagic to make it ligther
initrd ${fog-ip}/fog/iso/hbcd.iso
kernel memdisk iso raw
boot || goto failed
goto start

Yep i can see the iso in the browser and can download it.

[goempie]

This is what i see when i go to /fog/service/ipxe/boot.php

So i don’t think tha the :hbcd in the begining is necessary.
But i deleted it and stil it doesn’t work.

:hirensbcd
:hbcd
#open iso with iso editor and remove pmagic to make it ligther
initrd ${fog-ip}/fog/iso/hbcd.iso
kernel memdisk iso raw
boot || goto failed
goto start

[Wayne Workman]

@goempie
I did a little digging - this thread looks very promising:

https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/3229/ipxe-iso-boot-problems

Specifically this post:

@csurepair said in IPXE ISO boot problems:

Wahoo!!

Shes up and running! Thank you both for the feedback, you guys deserve a beer! If your ever in Fort Collins, Colorado PM me haha.

So for everyone else my problem was totally due to syntax and directory location,

By changing CODE initrd ${fog-ip}/fog/iso/Hirens152.iso[/CODE] to CODE initrd http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/iso/Hirens152.iso[/CODE] iPXE was able to fully resolve the path. This was only accomplished by making iPXE produce some sort of feedback via the below code(most graciously posted by Junkhacker),

menu
item --gap – ---------------- iPXE boot menu ----------------
item BOOTCD Hirens BOOTCD
item shell ipxe shell
choose target && goto ${target}

:BOOTCD
initrd 192.168.1.130/fog/iso/Hirens152.iso ||
echo failed to load iso if it stops here
prompt
chain memdisk iso raw ||
echo failed to chain memdisk if it stops here
prompt
boot ||
echo failed to boot here if it stops here
prompt
goto MENU

:shell
shell ||
goto MENU

autoboot[/CODE]

Thanks again guys!!

[goempie]

@Wayne-Workman

Ok getting there.

initrd http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe/iso/hbcd.iso ||
echo failed to load iso if it stops here
prompt
chain memdisk iso raw ||
echo failed to chain memdisk if it stops here
prompt
boot ||
echo failed to boot here if it stops here
prompt
goto MENU

When i boot i see that it downloads the iso then it comes to 100% and then i get the message

failed to load iso if it stops here

[goempie]

@goempie

IT WORKS

After the promt i just have to hit enter and then the hirens boots.

Thanks for the help.

I wil try to make a small guide on how to do it.

[Wayne Workman]

@goempie said in Adding Hirens 15.2 boot cd to the boot menu:

I wil try to make a small guide on how to do it.

Please do! I’ll add it to the wiki after you have it made.

[A Former User]

Hey! Thanks for the topic!

If it does not exist

mkdir /var/www/fog/iso

Copy ISO file

cp SOURCE_PATH/ISO_FILE /var/www/fog/iso

Add

/var/www/fog/iso * (ro, sync, no_wdelay, insecure_locks, no_root_squash, insecure )

in

/etc/exports

Run

sudo service nfs-kernel-server restart
sudo service rpcbind restart

Add a new menu in FOG WEB GUI

initrd  http://${fog-ip}/fog/iso/ISO_FILE.iso
chain memdisk iso raw

WORKED PERFECTLY!