So prior to the commit, snponly latched onto the device as provided from loaded image. The switch to last_opened_snpdev() seems to not be working.....
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Jarrod Johnson <jarrod.b.john...@gmail.com>wrote: > This was working for me, but broke as of > fc87adb commit... If I back that one out, chain loading efi images from > snponly.efi works again... > > > On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 11:42 AM, James A. Peltier <jpelt...@sfu.ca> wrote: > >> ------------------------------ >> >> >> 2013/4/6 Michael Brown <mbr...@fensystems.co.uk> >> >>> >>> This will give you an iPXE EFI ROM; you'll see it show up as "EFI >>> Network" in the EFI boot device selection screen, and it should thereafter >>> look and feel similar to normal iPXE. >>> >>> There is no such thing as a non-EFI (aka BIOS or "legacy") ROM which is >>> capable of loading an EFI image. Such a thing simply does not and can not >>> exist. >>> >>> Michael >>> >> >> I didn't know this. Up to know I've been using a modified version of ipxe >> that gives me a shell after initilizing the devices (just a modified main() >> function), so that I can load and boot any image over a network. I've >> always had all image types enabled in general.h and never had an issues >> when starting ipxe. Right now my system just reboots regardless of the not >> supported IMAGE_EFI. From my point of view this is a regression, because >> befor this commit ipxe started without glitches regardless if an image is >> supported or not. So even if the image is not supported then ipxe should >> gracefully continue initilization and not reboot the mashine.... >> >> >> From the shell I can point to and download any efi image over the >> network, but why it cannot boot the system? >> >> Joshua >> >> >> I have iPXE working with both legacy BIOS and EFI machines right now, >> except that I can't get it to chainload to an EFI bootloader such as >> CentOS's BOOTX64.efi. I always end up with "Could not boot: No such >> device", although considering this is my first time trying to do this I'm >> probably not doing it right. I'm just trying with >> >> chain >> http://mirror.its.sfu.ca/mirror/CentOS/6/os/x86_64/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.efi >> >> which is probably not right. Any ideas? >> -- >> James A. Peltier >> Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group >> Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus >> Phone : 778-782-6573 >> Fax : 778-782-3045 >> E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca >> Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices >> >> “A successful person is one who can lay a solid foundation from the >> bricks others have thrown at them.” -David Brinkley via Luke Shaw >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ipxe-devel mailing list >> ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org >> https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ipxe-devel >> >> >
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