DBAN using WDS - Help!

[dalsoth]

Hi Guys

I have been trying to get WDS/PXE to use the DBAN utility. I want to be able to boot up into syslinux and boot non Wim images such as Dell utilities and DBAN as an option before selecting to WDS/MDT. Another Edugeeker was helping me as he has it working but i am stuck and need some advice from anyone who has done this before.

I have followed this guide: http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.p...earch/WDSLINUX (site seems to be down at the moment)

I have got the WDSlinux bit working and have a menu appear but do not know where to put the iso files for utilities such as DBAN. I was told just to stick the ISO in the \remoteinstall\boot\x86 folder with all of the pxeboot files and stuff but when i do this, the DBAN iso does not do anything when selected from the menu.

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My menu is below:

DEFAULT      vesamenu.c32
PROMPT       0
NOESCAPE     0
ALLOWOPTIONS 0
# Timeout in units of 1/10 s
TIMEOUT 300
MENU MARGIN 10
MENU ROWS 16
MENU TABMSGROW 21
MENU TIMEOUTROW 26
MENU COLOR BORDER 30;44		#20ffffff #00000000 none
MENU COLOR SCROLLBAR 30;44		#20ffffff #00000000 none
MENU COLOR TITLE 0 		#ffffffff #00000000 none
MENU COLOR SEL   30;47		#40000000 #20ffffff
MENU BACKGROUND logo.png
MENU TITLE PXE Boot Menu
#---
LABEL wds
MENU LABEL WDS / MDT
KERNEL pxeboot.0
#---
LABEL Abort
MENU LABEL Abort Boot Loader
Kernel	abortpxe.0
#---
LABEL DBAN
 MENU LABEL DBAN
 kernel memdisk
 APPEND iso initrd=/dban.iso
#---
LABEL local 
MENU DEFAULT
MENU LABEL Boot from Harddisk
LOCALBOOT 0

Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated as i have no idea where the actual ISO files are supposed to go other than being told in with the pxeboot files as shown in the picture above. I also have not extracted anything out of the ISO. I have tried hundreds of little changes based on syslinux commands and stuff but none of it works as its not relevant to a WDS server.

Thanks!

[dalsoth]

Bump!

Nobody using WDS with syslinux to boot Dell disgnostic or DBAN etc?

[Shielder]

Have you tried putting dban.iso outside of the x86 subfolder or rather putting x86 as part of the path, e.g. APPEND iso initrd=/x86/dban.iso. I have a feeling that the x86 subfolder is not the tftp root folder.

[Duke5A]

Bump!

Nobody using WDS with syslinux to boot Dell disgnostic or DBAN etc?

Hey, sorry I didn't see this sooner. I haven't been stopping by this forum as mush as I used to. I've got this working and booting BartPE ISO files, DBAN, MemTest, and a few other utilities. The ISO and IMG files are located in "\WDSRemote\Boot\img" and here is a snippet from my PXE Linux menu config file.

default vesamenu.c32
prompt 0

menu title Tech PXE Boot Menu
menu background splash.png

menu color screen 0;37;40 #80ffffff #00000000
menu color border 0;30;44 #F8F8F8 #00000000
menu color title 1;36;44 #c00090f0 #00000000
menu color unsel 0;37;44 #90ffffff #00000000
menu color hotkey 1;37;44 #ffffffff #00000000
menu color sel 0;7;37;40 #cf101010 #20ff8000
menu color hotsel 1;7;37;40 #ff353535 #20ff8000
menu color scrollbar 0;30;44 #40000000 #00000000
menu color tabmsg 0;31;40 #90ffff00 #00000000
menu color cmdmark 1;36;40 #c000ffff #00000000
menu color cmdline 0;37;40 #c0ffffff #00000000
menu color pwdborder 0;30;47 #80ffffff #20ffffff
menu color pwdheader 0;31;47 #80ff8080 #20ffffff
menu color pwdentry 0;30;47 #80ffffff #20ffffff
menu color timeout_mesg 0;37;40 #80ffffff #00000000
menu color timeout 1;37;40 #c0ffffff #00000000


noescape 1
allowoptions 0


timeout 50

label bootlocal
menu label Boot from Hard Disk
localboot 0x80
append -
menu default

label wds
menu label Windows Deployment Services
kernel /x86/wdsnbp.0 keeppxe

label memtest
menu label Memtest+ 2.11
kernel memdisk
append initrd=/img/memtest.img

label offline
menu label Offline NT Password & Registry Editor
kernel offline/vmlinuz
append initrd=offline/initrd.cgz,offline/scsi.cgz

label bnbd
menu label Bart's Network Bootdisk
kernel memdisk
append initrd=/img/msnet.img c=2 h=4 s=36 floppy

label bnbd2
menu label Bart's Network Bootdisk Clone
kernel memdisk
append initrd=/img/fdmsrrc.img

label delldiag
menu label Dell Diagnostics V1374A0 (Use 2100/E5400/780)
kernel memdisk
append initrd=/img/delldiag2.img


label delldiagold
menu label Dell Diagnostics V1374.2 (Old Dell Systems)
kernel memdisk
append initrd=/img/delldiag.img

label dban
menu label DBAN
kernel memdisk
append initrd=/img/dban.img

label BartPE
menu label BartPE ISO Boot
kernel startrom.0

The winnt.sif file specifies the location of the BartPE ISO and is located in the root of the boot directory.

[SetupData]

BootDevice = "ramdisk(0)"

BootPath = "\i386\System32\"

OsLoadOptions = "/noguiboot /fastdetect /minint /rdexportascd /rdpath=\boot\img\pebuilder.iso"

Let me know if you need anything else. I'll be subscribed to the thread so I'll get email notification of replies.

Good luck!

[Duke5A]

This post is also handy for configuring ISO booting through PXE Linux.

http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=4669