Re: [ipxe-devel] In order to ooting ESXi mboot.c32 from ipxe enable IMAGE_COMBOOT in general/config.h

2012-09-09 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
Hello Brandon, > kernelopt=runweasel this tells the VMware kernel to start the interactive installer, if you specify just the ks=http://ip/ks.cfg it starts the noninteractive installation. > So, as of right now, I still do not have it working, but I figured I > would let you know about the 'runw

Re: [ipxe-devel] In order to ooting ESXi mboot.c32 from ipxe enable IMAGE_COMBOOT in general/config.h

2012-09-09 Thread Brandon Penglase
I did find after you left IRC, that there is another option in the boot.cfg that VMWare provides: kernelopt=runweasel So, confirming with Robin, I tried the following: kernel tboot runweasel However, on my VM, it still just sits, and on my physical machine, it reboots after a few seconds. If I unc

Re: [ipxe-devel] In order to ooting ESXi mboot.c32 from ipxe enable IMAGE_COMBOOT in general/config.h

2012-09-09 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
Hello Brandon, > I decided to try this out to see if I could get the same thing. > Working with Michael and Robin in IRC, we actually were finding things > about the same time you were. Once I uncompressed the tboot.b00, and > renamed it back to what it was, it then found it as a Multiboot image.

Re: [ipxe-devel] In order to ooting ESXi mboot.c32 from ipxe enable IMAGE_COMBOOT in general/config.h

2012-09-09 Thread Brandon Penglase
Thomas, I decided to try this out to see if I could get the same thing. Working with Michael and Robin in IRC, we actually were finding things about the same time you were. Once I uncompressed the tboot.b00, and renamed it back to what it was, it then found it as a Multiboot image.

Re: [ipxe-devel] In order to ooting ESXi mboot.c32 from ipxe enable IMAGE_COMBOOT in general/config.h

2012-09-09 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
Hello Robin, and here is the offending file: http://thomas.glanzmann.de/tmp/tboot.b00 (excalibur) [/var/www/esxi5] cp tboot.b00 /tmp/crap.gz (excalibur) [/var/www/esxi5] file !$ file /tmp/crap.gz /tmp/crap.gz: gzip compressed data, from Unix, last modified: Mon Mar 14 20:21:40 2011, max compress

Re: [ipxe-devel] In order to ooting ESXi mboot.c32 from ipxe enable IMAGE_COMBOOT in general/config.h

2012-09-09 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
Hello Robin, > But why do you need to load all of these drivers? till today I did not spend much thought of it and used always was the loader on the ESXi ISO used. > Aren't they bundled in one of the other initrd images you already load? Probably yes. > You don't really need to load that many

Re: [ipxe-devel] In order to ooting ESXi mboot.c32 from ipxe enable IMAGE_COMBOOT in general/config.h

2012-09-09 Thread Robin Smidsrød
On 09.09.2012 14:13, Thomas Glanzmann wrote: > Hello Robin, > >> https://gist.github.com/2769396 > > I had to try it, but it doesn't boot for me. > > This is my script: http://pbot.rmdir.de/20e1070d6c4757aa643673e2b26e6376 > > I compiled ipxe with IMAGE_MULTIBOOT enabled, use undionly.kpxe and

Re: [ipxe-devel] In order to ooting ESXi mboot.c32 from ipxe enable IMAGE_COMBOOT in general/config.h

2012-09-09 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
Hello Robin, > https://gist.github.com/2769396 I had to try it, but it doesn't boot for me. This is my script: http://pbot.rmdir.de/20e1070d6c4757aa643673e2b26e6376 I compiled ipxe with IMAGE_MULTIBOOT enabled, use undionly.kpxe and see the following screen and there it hangs: http://thomas.gl

Re: [ipxe-devel] In order to ooting ESXi mboot.c32 from ipxe enable IMAGE_COMBOOT in general/config.h

2012-09-09 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
Hello Robin, > Or you can avoid using mboot.c32 from Syslinux at all and use iPXE's > built-in Multiboot support with a script like this: > https://gist.github.com/2769396 wow. Thank you for sharing this. I'll use that from now on. I installed this morning 12 ESX servers using mboot.c32. I also

Re: [ipxe-devel] In order to ooting ESXi mboot.c32 from ipxe enable IMAGE_COMBOOT in general/config.h

2012-09-09 Thread Robin Smidsrød
On 09.09.2012 08:49, Thomas Glanzmann wrote: > you already know that, but in order to boot mboot.c32 to install ESXi, > you need to enable IMAGE_COMBOOT in config/general.h before building it. > I wrote this e-mail for the people googling for this problem. Or you can avoid using mboot.c32 from Sys

[ipxe-devel] In order to ooting ESXi mboot.c32 from ipxe enable IMAGE_COMBOOT in general/config.h

2012-09-08 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
Hello, you already know that, but in order to boot mboot.c32 to install ESXi, you need to enable IMAGE_COMBOOT in config/general.h before building it. I wrote this e-mail for the people googling for this problem. Cheers, Thomas ___ ipxe-devel mai