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Hello,
we are trying to deploy Windows 11 on our PCs using WADs.
Our setup consists of a primary server on one LAN
and a secondary repository on another LAN.
We have a DHCP server on each LAN.

When we try to upload the image to the primary server via IPXE from a PC on the secondary repository's LAN, we get the following results:
The IP address assigned by DHCP is indeed on the secondary repository's LAN.
The ipxe.efi file is successfully downloaded from the primary server, and this happens twice!

We get a message:
IPXE initializing devices ok.

Then it goes wrong:
FEATURES: DNS HTTP ISCSI TFTP VLAN SRP AoE EFI Menu

No more network devices
could not boot image: Error 0x7f048207 (https://ipxe.org/0x7f048207)
No more network devices.

Can you help us with this problem?
As a follow-up question, do we need to point the "Boot Server Hostname" to the main server in DHCP?

Thank you in advance for your help.
Have a good day.

Hi Marc,

could you try replacing the ipxe.efi file with snponly.efi [1]?

snponly.efi is based on the EFI BIOS network drivers and works better. Now, ipxe.efi should only be used on machines that don't support snponly.efi.

Regards,

Denis

[1] https://www.wapt.fr/fr/doc/wapt-wads.ht ... ftp-server

Hello,
where can I find the snponly.efi file?
I only have undionly.kpxe and ipxe.efi in /var/www/wads/pxe.
Do we need to download the tis-compile-ipxe package for this?
Thank you in advance for your help.
Have a good day.

Vercingetorix wrote: ↑Oct 8, 2024 - 10:06 I only have undionly.kpxe and ipxe.efi under /var/www/wads/pxe.

Normally, if you are up to date, you should find the file in /opt/wapt/wads/pxe/snponly.efi

Latest version of wapt: 2.5.5.15697 (20422a0b)

Hello,
I should have started with this: we're on version 2.4...
So can we use SnOnly with this version?
Thank you.

Hello,

the best solution would be to upgrade. Otherwise, you can download the server's .deb file (version 2.5) and extract the file from it.

Simon

Hello,
we upgraded to version 2.5.
The result is:
a DHCP IP address,
NBP filename is spnonly.efi
...
NBP file downloaded successfully.
IPXE initializing devices... OK.


Then,


Nothing to boot: No such file or directory (https://ipxe.org).

At the DHCP level, we have rules 067 with:
EFI/Boot/bootmgfw.efi
http://xx.xx.xx.xx./api/v3/baseipxe?keymap=fr
http://xx.xx.xx.xx./api/v3/baseipxe?uef ... &keymap=fr.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Vercingetorix wrote: ↑Oct 10, 2024 - 1:59 PM At the DHCP level, we do have rule 067 with:
EFI/Boot/bootmgfw.efi

I didn't understand that part of your message

If you are in spnonly.efi, you are normally not in "EFI/Boot/bootmgfw.efi".

Can you specify which DHCP server to use?

Alternatively, could you also send a screenshot of your DHCP configuration?

Hello,
this is a bit confusing for us.
Attached is our Windows 2019 DHCP configuration.

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