efi stub: ERROR: Failed to load initrd

[axeprpr]

my boot.ipxe

#!ipxe
set webserver http://192.168.132.130:5000
set opts ?vga=791&video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr&ramdisk_size=16777216&rw&quiet&initrd=initrd
menu Please choose an operating system to boot
    item normal Install Proxmox
    item debug Install Proxmox (Debug Mode)
choose --default normal --timeout 5000 target && goto ${target}
:debug
    set kernel ${webserver}/boot/proxmox/linux26${opts}&splash=verbose&proxdebug
    goto init
:normal
    set kernel ${webserver}/boot/proxmox/linux26${opts}&splash=silent
    goto init
:init
initrd ${webserver}/boot/proxmox/initrd
chain ${kernel}

i have tried both proxmox-ve_7.4-1.iso proxmox-ve_8.2-2.iso.

[morph027]

Which system?

I've just tried using the normal syntax within a QEMU UEFI test VM and it works w/ ipxe 1.21.1.

set pve-version 8.1
initrd ${base-url}/proxmox/${pve-version}/initrd.iso.img
chain ${base-url}/proxmox/${pve-version}/linux26 vga=791 video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr ramdisk_size=16777216 rw quiet splash=verbose initrd=initrd.iso.img proxdebug
boot

[axeprpr]

i just try your ipxe file like this, but still failed.
i use the latest version of ipxe. wget https://boot.ipxe.org/ipxe.efi

#!ipxe
set webserver http://192.168.132.130:5000/boot/proxmox
initrd ${webserver}/initrd
chain ${webserver}/linux26 vga=791 video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr ramdisk_size=16777216 rw quiet splash=verbose initrd=initrd proxdebug
boot || shell

[morph027]

Secure Boot enabled?

[axeprpr]

i use vmware to test this. secure boot is disabled.

could you please send me the ipxe.efi file you success booting?

[morph027]

I'm also using latest ipxe.efi from the official download link you've posted.

Looking at https://ipxe.org/err/7f048283 and the linked https://ipxe.org/err/7f048200, it might be that the initrd/linux26 files are corrupted (just guessing).

Can you show the ipxe boot snippet used for booting also?

[axeprpr]

I'm also using latest ipxe.efi from the official download link you've posted.

Looking at https://ipxe.org/err/7f048283 and the linked https://ipxe.org/err/7f048200, it might be that the initrd/linux26 files are corrupted (just guessing).

Can you show the ipxe boot snippet used for booting also?

that's weird. there're my pxe file md5 and kernel options:

root@debian:~# md5sum pve-iso-2-pxe-master/pxeboot/*
221e779d8163889cab8295d7fdf90cad  pve-iso-2-pxe-master/pxeboot/initrd
2a855139f729a1a7d4a495d95125bb0f  pve-iso-2-pxe-master/pxeboot/linux26
root@debian:~# md5sum pve-iso-2-pxe-master_7.4/pxeboot/*
bc1912792967ca586b411886a22388db  pve-iso-2-pxe-master_7.4/pxeboot/initrd
c59b55cd7cbbb7984e3bf4a208ea0077  pve-iso-2-pxe-master_7.4/pxeboot/linux26

[truatpasteurdotfr]

disable your secure boot? "missing MZ signature" ...