As my IBM Blade Center H has known difficulties with booting HS22 Blades from CDROM the best option for me is installation via network. So I'm trying to set up a PXE boot of the XenServer 7.1.0 installation. I'm following Citrix Installation Guide Appendix C on pages 37ff.
My Blade is booting to a grub console, but not loading the install system. So i guess tftp and dhcp are working fine.
On page 38 the Installation guides says:
Configuring your TFTP Server for UEFI boot
To configure your TFTP server for UEFI boot:
- In the /tftpboot directory, create a new directory called EFI/xenserver.
- Configure your DHCP server to provide /EFI/xenserver/grubx64.efi as the boot file.
- Create grub.cfg file. For example:
menuentry "XenServer Install (serial)" {
multiboot2 /EFI/xenserver/xen.gz dom0_mem=1024M,max:1024M watchdog dom0_max_vcpus=4 com1=115200,8n1 console=com1,vga
module2 /EFI/xenserver/vmlinuz console=hvc0
module2 /EFI/xenserver/install.img }
Copy grub.cfg file to /tftpboot/EFI/xenserver directory on the TFTP server.
From the XenServer installation media, copy the files grubx64.efi , install.img (from the root directory), vmlinuz and xen.gz (from the /boot directory) to the new /tftpboot/EFI/ xenserver directory on the TFTP server. Note: The following examples show how to configure the installer to run on the physical console, tty0. To use a different default, ensure that the console you want to use is the leftmost.
OK, as there is no grubx64.efi file in the ISO root I took the one from /EFI/xenserver.
And then without anything else follows this piece of config. I don't know what to do with it, so maybe my problem is coming from this:
> default xenserver
> label xenserver
> kernel mboot.c32 append /tftpboot/EFI/xenserver/xen.gz
> dom0_mem=1024M,max:1024M watchdog dom0_max_vcpus=4 com1=115200,8n1 \
> console=com1,vga --- /tftpboot/EFI/xenserver/vmlinuz \ console=hvc0
> console=tty0 \
> --- /tftpboot/EFI/xenserver/install.img