WinPE Network Booting Issue

[Koovu]

Hi guys,

I'm having trouble booting into WinPE and Active Boot Disk (which also uses the Windows bootrom if I'm not mistaken?), I'm able to boot into all other tools and plugins (linux distros are fine, memtest, etc)

When I select to boot into either WinPE or ActiveBootDisc, I receive exactly the same error (except the path for WinPE is \er\0\BCD). Error is;



My files I have in place are for this directory, for ActiveBootDisc are:



That winpe.wim file is the one obtained via the instructions on the plugins installation page.

I wasn't sure if this was because of missing network drivers within the winpe.wim file, as I'm using VMWare to test the PXE server, so I added the one and only drive I could find for my installation of VMWare Tools, which is a file named 'vmscsi.ini' - other people on the net have had driver issues with VMWare, but everyone else seems to have a different driver to me.

If it's anything to go off, I installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 on VMWare, and I couldn't get the network to work at all. Ubuntu works fine however.

[Koovu]

Update:

I've booted into PXE from a standalone desktop (not a virtual machine) and tried to load ActiveBootDisc and WinPE, I receive the exact same error :/

So it's not a VMWare driver that was causing the problem...

I'm even more confused now.

[Koovu]

Not sure if it's worth mentioning, I've checked the 'BCD' file, and the information contained within it seems correct as well..

[RaveMaker]

It looks like a remap issue.
Are you using windows or linux as a tftp server?
Post your tftp configuration settings.

[Koovu]

Thanks for the reply,

Yeah the issue is resolved now, and yeah it was a remap issue. I was using Linux. It was getting the \ mixed up with /.

I've kept your ERPXE package as my primary PXE, and just added an iPXE kernal combined with a script for loading anything Windows related.

Problem solved! Cheers for the awesome package guys

[kokotakus]

hi, please could you be more specific? what script you used?
I've got the same issue using QNAP as tftp, it's linux...
What scripts you used please, could you provide any link?
Thank you very much.

[RaveMaker]

Check out the Config TFTP service instructions at:

http://erpxe.org/CentOS_installation_instructions
http://erpxe.org/Debian_installation_instructions
http://erpxe.org/Fedora_installation_instructions
http://erpxe.org/Ubuntu_installation_instructions

The remap file converts backslashes to slashes and changes all to lowercase.

[kokotakus]

hello admin, thanks for your reply, but I had no luck solving this.
on the QNAP there is some stripped version of linux and none of those files like in real linux distros is present:
"/etc/xinetd.d/tftp"
"/etc/default/tftpd-hpa"

any ideas? I've also created a thread about this on the official QNAP forum
http://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=81630