similar to: PXE boot Windows PE in EFI mode

On 10/11/14 14:36, Bernd Eggenm?ller wrote: > is there a way to boot a Windows PE image over PXE in UEFI mode. > If there is one, how do I write the entry in the syslinux.cfg file? I don't know the syslinux answer to this, but you can definitely do it via iPXE and wimboot: see http://ipxe.org/wimboot for instructions. Michael

Attached are 4 patches against Syslinux 4.06 providing two new options for the linux.c32 ComBoot32 module. If we are shifting gears towards 4.10 or 5 any time soon, feel free to let me know and I'll attempt to apply the patches to those and to deal with any conflicts. You can merge these commits onto your 4.06 from my 'multi_initrd' branch at:

On 25/11/14 02:01, Ady wrote: > --- a/src/cmdline.c Fri Nov 07 02:27:56 2014 > +++ b/src/cmdline.c Mon Nov 24 15:18:15 2014 > @@ -104,6 +104,8 @@ > /* Ignore unknown initial arguments, which may > * be the program name. > */ > + } else if ( strcmp( key, "initrdfile") == 0 ) { > + /* Ignore this keyword so to make this kernel work with sylinux

Adding an option for initrdfile= boot argument to be ignored by wimboot worked just fine. They can add this patch, which is probably most sane, or syslinux could add the INITRDFILE configuration option instead of having to append the option for linux.c32 wimboot-2.4.0/src/cmdline.c @ Line ~107 } else if ( key == cmdline ) { /* Ignore unknown initial

I have an interest in booting Windows PE from PXELinux, and it seems that wimboot from ipxe project is the solution. http://ipxe.org/wimboot MENU LABEL Windows 8.1 Enterprise PE Rescue (wimboot) com32 linux.c32 /wimboot APPEND initrdfile=/windows/win81/bootmgr,/windows/win81/boot/bcd,/windows/win81/boot/boot.sdi,/windows/win81/sources/boot.wim The initrdfile= is supported in Syslinux from

> -----Original Message----- > From: Luke Ledgerd > Sent: Monday, November 24, 2014 1:10 PM > To: 'syslinux at zytor.com' > Subject: Windows PE booting without chainloading ipxe > > I have an interest in booting Windows PE from PXELinux, and it seems that wimboot from ipxe project is the solution. > http://ipxe.org/wimboot > > MENU LABEL Windows 8.1

On 28/08/14 19:38, Jason Jones wrote: > Anyone have luck with pxechn32 and bootmgfw.efi? > > I'm getting the "Unable to retrieve first package" issue as reported by others. > > Really, any advice for UEFI booting into a winpe environment off of pxelinux 6.03 would be beneficial. As it happens, I released a new version of wimboot with support for UEFI yesterday. The

Hello, I'm trying to use a current Syslinux setup, that is working well for service linux based distros, to serve up recent Windows server installs. As I'm new here I'm reluctant to make any changes to the environment unless I've exhausted the current options. We are running Syslinux 3.71 on a Gentoo server and all the DHCP and tftpd are "working as they should". What

This got me closer, but it got to "Encapsulating winpe.wim..." and never went through the rest of the way. Ultimately PXELINUX apparently timed out and the machine rebooted. Here is relative portion of pxelinux: LABEL SCCM OSD Boot MENU LABEL ^2. SCCM OSD Boot com32 linux.c32 append wimboot initrdfile=bootmgr.exe,BCD,boot.sdi,winpe.wim TEXT HELP

I am trying to load a WinPE boot image using wimboot, and failing. The 3 files appear to load successfully (the output "Encapsulating ... <filename>" is displayed for each file, taking a few minutes on the .wim file as expected based on the size), but then the workstation just reboots, and I don't see output after that. Has anyone successfully loaded WinPE using wimboot with

Anyone have luck with pxechn32 and bootmgfw.efi? I'm getting the "Unable to retrieve first package" issue as reported by others. Really, any advice for UEFI booting into a winpe environment off of pxelinux 6.03 would be beneficial. Jason Jones Sr. Associate, Network Services | End User Computing 3947 N Oak St Ext | Valdosta, GA 31605 O +15137844955 E jason.s.jones at

Hi folks My ultimate goal is to be able to add an initramfs to the end my syslinux.cfg resulting in an additional initramfs being loaded when the system boots. So I need to work out how to get initrd+= to work. I?ve been trying for days now everything I possibly can to get initrd+= to work but nothing I do works. I've also been trying to get initrdfile= to work but no success with that

What about using linux.c32?? It has some special initrd features, which someone has very kindly documented: ? http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=Linux.c32 Shao Miller Synthetel Corporation W: https://www.synthetel.com

Hi, I am using PXELinux to boot my workstations in MS-DOS :-) mode (using memdisk) and then I start winnt.exe to install Windows 2000. I was wondering if it is possible to hide some of the extensive information being printed during the initilisation process. I tried to use the graphical splash screen but it only shows up for a very short time. What about implementing some sort of delay in the

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> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:02:10 +0100 > From: Michael Brown <mcb30 at ipxe.org> > To: Jason Jones <jason.s.jones at convergys.com>, "syslinux at zytor.com" > <syslinux at zytor.com> > Subject: Re: [syslinux] PXE booting WinPE with UEFI architecture > Message-ID: <54006BC2.3090703 at ipxe.org> > Content-Type: text/plain;

On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 8:01 PM, Spike White <spikewhitetx at gmail.com> wrote: > But chain-loading into WinPE would be useful too. > In order to use "wimboot", I have to use ./efi64/com32/modules/pxechn.c32 > to chain-load into ipxe? As so: pxechn.c32 contains BIOS-only code and is not going to work in any EFI environment. > LABEL WinPE > MENU LABEL

Hi. I have looked at PXElinux<http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=PXELINUX> to understand all this, but I'm very sorry I don't. I have managed to setup to boot from PXELinux, but I'm not an expert on how to setup a menu file for making a windows unattended installation. Could someone help me with that? Is there some kind of a forum for this or is it just by email?

On 30/08/14 02:00, Gene Cumm wrote: >> And then in the same location, I put this boot.ipxe file and all support >> files: >> >> #!ipxe >> kernel wimboot >> initrd bootmgr bootmgr >> initrd boot/bcd BCD >> initrd boot/boot.sdi boot.sdi >> initrd http://<SCCM-server>/boot.wim boot.wim >>

THX, helps a lot On 17.08.2013 15:09 Gene Cumm wrote: > Can you deal with a client taking 1-4 minutes to just fetch files? If > not, you will have a performance issue. > Unfortunally not, the performance issue is known )-: > > Where does startrom.0 come from? Some Windows file? > I don't know, it is build by the company where we get the .nbis from > > So planning