On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 at 16:45, michele pedrini <michelemikym...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Wat is the pciid of the card? > Me:... > Vendor ID: 0x14e4 > Device ID: 0x1639
So an Broadcom chipset based card, but 0x1639 is not supported by any native iPXE driver. This means that without a driver update in iPXE this won't run other than via chainloaded drivers (such as with an UNDI/SNP/NII from other ROM) > >> Which iPXE binary are you using? (examples: ipxe.pxe, ipxe.lkrn, >> undionly.kpxe, ipxe.efi, snponly.efi) > Me:...Tried to boot from the standard ISO, the so called "Bootable ISO image, > joust to see if that ISO is able to map hardware and to start the iPXE > console. > So that is ipxe.iso which is in PCBIOS mode, and that does not have any alternate drivers available. > >> How is that binary started? (chainloading over network) > Me:...ISO image mounted into the iLO and system started from CD. > >> What is the error message or what is it that isn't working for you? > Me:...after start booting from iPXE ISO, the screen shows "FATAL HUB LINK > ERROR" and stops going ahead. > That is probably a message from BIOS/Firmware, not from iPXE. Or more likely the CD which is booted via iLO is connected by USB and that fails? You could try building ipxe.usb instead, but again that won't be able to find your NIC >> Output of ifstat inside of iPXE shell? > Me:...after start booting from iPXE ISO, the screen shows "FATAL HUB LINK > ERROR" and stops going ahead. > > Hoping to be clear and to have correctly answered to your questions. > I'm looking forward your upgrades. I'm still not sure if you want PCBIOS or EFI boot, but the best would still be to use the existing NIC rom, and then chain into undionly.kpxe or snponly.efi depending on which platform you want, this needs to be done via DHCP and TFTP. The other option is to invest in development of native driver in iPXE for the NIC. I find it unlikely, but if you are super lucky it might work by adding PCI_ROM line in src/drivers/net/tg3/tg3.c _______________________________________________ ipxe-devel mailing list ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ipxe-devel