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iPXE + WDS + EFI Boot Menu
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@mahboobrahman I've not looked too closely there, however there is definitely a problem that I am aware of with netbooting + Hyper-V VM's. You can only netboot the VM with UEFI if it is Gen 2 (in my experience). I'm guessing you could be hitting into that.

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@mintsoft Thanks for the help. MY Hyper-V VM is Gen 2 for testing the netbooting/PXE in UEFI mode. It can boot into WDS in UEFI mode using the WDS with dhcp option 3, 60, 66, & 67 (with no additional changes bieng made) and install Windows OSs just fine.
I have Gen 1 VM that I using for Legacy BIOS netbooting and that works well with Windows OSs too. But I am trying to use iPXE or any other utility that could help me install Linux OSs via network.

I am assuming that the server with WDS comes with TFTP path to "remoteinstall/" folder but I am not sure. I tried to change the dhcp policies option 67 (bootfilename) path to HTTP URL but it didn't work either.

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@mahboobrahman I'd probably test with more devices (UEFI booting) to see what happens, try with other VM's (like VirtualBox or proxmox etc) so you can see if the issue is HyperV related or not.

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arjanv commented Jul 6, 2023

Does this work with secure boot enabled on clients?

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mintsoft commented Jul 9, 2023

@arjanv no idea, try it and find out?

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jkf1585 commented Nov 10, 2023

@mintsoft Would you be so kind as to share your full boot.ipxe.cfg file? I'm struggling getting Ubuntu 22.04 to install. Debian is fine.

Would be much appreciated.

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jkf1585 commented Nov 10, 2023

@mintsoft That's where my original config file came from. Thank you. I'm asking how you, personally, have your setup to allow Ubuntu and Mint installs. Thank you.

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jkf1585 commented Nov 10, 2023

@mintsoft You're good for two things: 1) No good & 2) good for nothin'
:)
I'll be nice & say thanks, anyway.

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