PXE Boot Image from an ISO

[Dave73]

From the message you are recieving above, extract the files from the iso and it should work.

[shocko]

Hi Dave73,

I'm not sure that makes any sense. In previous versions of the SmartStart/Firmware DVDs you specify the path to the .iso on an NFS share (or otherwise) and it gets mounted so it's contents appear as a directory to the kernel. If I extract the files, I need to mount the extracted folder and not the ,iso no?

[Dave73]

I fell out the bus on this one :(

Ignore previous statemments, lol. Busy testing at the moment.

[Jack Alexander]

I'm doing the same thing, but according the docus for doing this, you want media=cdrom, not media=network.

FWIW: You have a few other switches in there that don't match the docs.  Here is what I am using successfully:

LABEL FW 9.0 (x86_64) Automatic Update

       MENU LABEL FW 9.0 (x86_64) Automatic Update

       KERNEL fw/9.0/x86_64/server/vmlinuz

       APPEND vmlinuz initrd=fw/9.0/x86_64/server/initrd.img media=cdrom rw root=/dev/ram0 ramdisk=25714 init=/bin/init loglevel=3 ide=nodma ide=noraid pnpbios=off vga=791 splash=silent showopts TYPE=AUTOMATIC iso1=nfs://10.10.0.100/software/iso/fw/9.0/x86_64/server/FW900.2010_0403.93.iso iso1mnt=/mnt/bootdevice

[shocko]

Hi Jack,

I must eb in idito mode because I cannot find the documentation for this :))! I basically cobbled my append line together from old docs for the 9.x firmware! Can you post a link to that documentation please?

[shocko]

Thanks Jack,

I'll test again with your append line and see how it goes.

[James Ayvaz]

ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib2/software1/doc/p1572577490/v68421/FWUsersGuide9.30.pdf

(Starts on page #16 )

[shocko]

That refers to the FW maintenance DVD v9.30. I wish to PXE boot the HP SPP [Janurary Release] directly. Are there any instructions for this?

[shocko]

APlogies, I should have read the guide. It does appear to have the setup config. I will test it now.

[shocko]

Still the same issue. Here is my PXE config

 MENU LABEL ^ Manual Installation
 MENU INDENT 2
 kernel /HP/SSP/2012.01.0/vmlinuz
 append initrd=HP/SSP/2012.01.0/initrd.img media=cdrom rw root=/dev/ram0 ramdisk_size=257144 init=/bin/init loglevel=3 ide=nodma ide=noraid pnpbios=off vga=791 splash=silent showopts TYPE=MANUAL iso1=nfs://<myserverai[>/PXEROOT/NFSROOT/hpservicepack/SPP2012010.2012_0119.47.iso isolmnt=/mnt/bootdevice
 say "Loading the HP Service Support Pack - Manual Installation"

And the error on load: