Re: [ipxe-devel] esxi5 use ftp to install is very slow

2013-07-16 Thread Yixuan Huang
Hello Jarrod, Yes. I used esxboot-x64.efi from xcat. I have not noticed error about BOOTIF or something else when booting. Thanks, yixuan On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 2:50 AM, Jarrod Johnson wrote: > That's weasel complaining. Did you mayhaps see an error about BOOTIF or > something during boot? >

Re: [ipxe-devel] UEFI Grub 64 chaining drops to grub prompt

2013-07-16 Thread James A. Peltier
I haven't heard anything back in regards to this. I'm just following up to see what I'm doing wrong here. I've tried to get this working but it doesn't seem to. - Original Message - | Sorry, meant to send this to the list. | - Original Message - | | I just go around to revisi

Re: [ipxe-devel] esxi5 use ftp to install is very slow

2013-07-16 Thread Duane Voth
My experience is that http is always dramatically faster than ftp in these boot situations. Perhaps the http protocol implementation is easier, and http over tcp better supports multiple packets in flight? ___ ipxe-devel mailing list ipxe-devel@lists.ipx

Re: [ipxe-devel] esxi5 use ftp to install is very slow

2013-07-16 Thread Jarrod Johnson
That's weasel complaining. Did you mayhaps see an error about BOOTIF or something during boot? You might consider trying the substitute esxboot efi executable: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xcat/files/yum/xcat-dep/esxboot-xcat-1.0.0-2.noarch.rpm/download On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Yixua

Re: [ipxe-devel] esxi5 use ftp to install is very slow

2013-07-16 Thread Yixuan Huang
hello all, when i used https to load esxi 5.1 installer with ipxe, kernel(tboot.b00) and other files can be downloaded by ipxe through https. 9.119.47.207 - - [16/Jul/2013:12:31:01 +0800] "GET /maint/b.b00 HTTP/1.1" 200 55284 "-" "iPXE/1.0.0+" 9.119.47.207 - - [16/Jul/2013:12:31:01 +0800] "GET /mai