Re: [Etherboot-discuss] WinPE boot failure

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Hi Striper,

Well, I checked the intergirty of the file which was good.
I tried today the same configuration: dhcp, tftp on a built in PXE of a
simple nic. It loaded pxeboot.n12 and later asked for bootmgr.exe!

Conculsion: the problem is in gPXE.

Itay
dhcp configuration:
"
allow booting;
allow bootp;
ddns-update-style none; ddns-updates off;

shared-network "my_network" {
        subnet 11.4.3.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
                #option dhcp-client-identifier = option
dhcp-client-identifier;
                option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
                option domain-name "lab.mtl.com";
                option domain-name-servers  10.0.0.1;
                default-lease-time 28800;
                max-lease-time 86400;
        }
}

host sw130-et {
        next-server 11.4.3.129;
        #option root-path "/tftpboot";
        filename "pxelinux.0";
        fixed-address 11.4.3.131;
        hardware ethernet 00:02:c9:00:21:39;
}
"

On Jan 24, 2008 7:01 PM, striper <str...@gm...> wrote:

> On Jan 24, 2008 10:37 AM, Itay Gazit <ita...@gm...> wrote:
> >
> > Striper,
> >
> > Thanks for the detailed information.
> >
> > Well, I still didn't succeed booting winpe.
>
> Bummer, we'll have to keep fishing.
>
> > I will try focus my problem:
> > PXE succefully loads winpe.0 which is pxeboot.n12.
> > The problem I have that after it loaded pxeboot.n12 it should ask for a
> file
> > called "/bootmgr.exe"  or "Boot/bootmgr.exe" or " bootmgr.exe"
> (something
> > with bootmgr.exe). I don't know why but myne is asking for a file called
> "/"
> > ???
>
> The fact that it is asking for a / forward slash is a problem.
>
> > I tried everything with the tftp mapping and I even tried it on windows,
> no
> > change it always ask for a file called "/".
>
> You said "I even tried it on windows". I think that means that you
> tried running your tftpd on Windows.
>
> The / forward slash makes me very suspicious. The MSFT code would
> never use a / forward slash because the MSFT code thinks it is talking
> to a Windows tftpd; it would always use \ backslash as a path
> separator.
>
> I suspect that your dhcpd is still passing something that has a / in it.
>
> > Maybe it's something related to a configuration to gPXE? Did you try
> booting
> > winpe 2.0 with gPXE?
>
> No, I have not yet tried booing WinPE using gPXE. I am currently
> traveling and will not be able to try gPXE until next week.
>
> You said that you tried it on Windows, and I assumed that you were
> talking about tftpd. If you are trying it in a pure Windows
> environment, with a Windows dhcpd + tftpd, and if you are *positive*
> that you are using no / forward slash characters in your the service
> config on your Windows dhcpd, then that would point the finger at
> gPXE.
>
> Let's do the following:
>
>  * confirm your dhcpd settings. Please post to mailing list
>
>  * restart your dhcpd to ensure that it is running with your
> configuration:
>      # service dhcpd restart
>  .OR.
>    restart the service on Windows
>
>  * confirm the integrity of your pxeboot.n12 file. md5sum hash on my
> system is:
>     [striper@plumisland] md5sum pxeboot.n12
>     57113b2babb9ac4025506ca30d909a28  pxeboot.n12
>
>  * You know how to use tcpdump. Use the 'ether host <MAC-ADDRESS>'
> filter to capture all traffic that is going to your boot machine. Send
> it to me off of the mailing list.
>
> Below you will find a snippet from my /var/log/messages on my Fedora 8
> dhcpd server. Client is a Broadcom NIC not using gPXE.
>
>
> striper
>
> ---
>
> Jan 18 00:23:50 plumisland in.tftpd[9707]: RRQ from 192.168.101.99
> filename winpe20.0 remapped to winpe20/pxeboot.n12
> Jan 18 00:23:50 plumisland in.tftpd[9708]: RRQ from 192.168.101.99
> filename bootmgr.exe remapped to winpe20/bootmgr.exe
> Jan 18 00:23:51 plumisland in.tftpd[9709]: RRQ from 192.168.101.99
> filename \Boot\Fonts\wgl4_boot.ttf remapped to
> winpe20/fonts/wgl4_boot.ttf
> Jan 18 00:23:51 plumisland in.tftpd[9709]: tftp: client does not accept
> options
> Jan 18 00:23:51 plumisland in.tftpd[9710]: RRQ from 192.168.101.99
> filename \Boot\Fonts\wgl4_boot.ttf remapped to
> winpe20/fonts/wgl4_boot.ttf
> Jan 18 00:23:51 plumisland in.tftpd[9711]: RRQ from 192.168.101.99
> filename \boot.ini
> Jan 18 00:24:06 plumisland in.tftpd[9713]: RRQ from 192.168.101.99
> filename \Boot\BCD remapped to winpe20/bcd.striper
> Jan 18 00:24:06 plumisland in.tftpd[9713]: tftp: client does not accept
> options
> Jan 18 00:24:06 plumisland in.tftpd[9714]: RRQ from 192.168.101.99
> filename \Boot\BCD remapped to winpe20/bcd.striper
> Jan 18 00:24:06 plumisland in.tftpd[9715]: RRQ from 192.168.101.99
> filename \Boot\Fonts\wgl4_boot.ttf remapped to
> winpe20/fonts/wgl4_boot.ttf
> Jan 18 00:24:06 plumisland in.tftpd[9715]: tftp: client does not accept
> options
> Jan 18 00:24:06 plumisland in.tftpd[9716]: RRQ from 192.168.101.99
> filename \Boot\Fonts\wgl4_boot.ttf remapped to
> winpe20/fonts/wgl4_boot.ttf
> Jan 18 00:24:06 plumisland in.tftpd[9717]: RRQ from 192.168.101.99
> filename \hiberfil.sys
> Jan 18 00:24:06 plumisland in.tftpd[9718]: RRQ from 192.168.101.99
> filename \winpe.wim remapped to winpe20/winpe.wim
> Jan 18 00:24:06 plumisland in.tftpd[9719]: RRQ from 192.168.101.99
> filename \boot.sdi remapped to winpe20/boot.sdi
> Jan 18 00:24:06 plumisland in.tftpd[9718]: tftp: client does not accept
> options
> Jan 18 00:24:07 plumisland in.tftpd[9720]: RRQ from 192.168.101.99
> filename \boot.sdi remapped to winpe20/boot.sdi
> Jan 18 00:24:07 plumisland in.tftpd[9719]: tftp: client does not accept
> options
> Jan 18 00:24:07 plumisland in.tftpd[9721]: RRQ from 192.168.101.99
> filename \winpe.wim remapped to winpe20/winpe.wim
> Jan 18 00:24:43 plumisland in.tftpd[9723]: RRQ from 192.168.101.99
> filename \Boot\Fonts\wgl4_boot.ttf remapped to
> winpe20/fonts/wgl4_boot.ttf
> Jan 18 00:24:43 plumisland in.tftpd[9723]: tftp: client does not accept
> options
> Jan 18 00:24:43 plumisland in.tftpd[9724]: RRQ from 192.168.101.99
> filename \Boot\Fonts\wgl4_boot.ttf remapped to
> winpe20/fonts/wgl4_boot.ttf
> Jan 18 00:39:43 plumisland xinetd[9690]: EXIT: tftp status=0 pid=9693
> duration=957(sec)
>