Re: Problems PXE booting a UEFI debian-installer

2020-11-21 Thread Andy Smith
This was very occasionally working but mostly not. I updated the boot firmware of the Intel I350 NICs and now it seems to work every time. Previously it was stopping after downloading debian-installer/amd64/grubx64.efi by TFTP, and just showing me a grub> prompt. Now it goes on to request all the

Re: Problems PXE booting a UEFI debian-installer

2020-11-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 20 nov 20, 15:15:42, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi Andrei, > > On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 12:30:49PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Vi, 20 nov 20, 00:56:19, Andy Smith wrote: > > > > > > I have tried both the buster netboot.tar.gz and the daily d-i build > > > and get the same behaviour with

Re: Problems PXE booting a UEFI debian-installer

2020-11-20 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Andrei, On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 12:30:49PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 20 nov 20, 00:56:19, Andy Smith wrote: > > > > I have tried both the buster netboot.tar.gz and the daily d-i build > > and get the same behaviour with both. > > > > I've also read the relevant part of the

Re: Problems PXE booting a UEFI debian-installer

2020-11-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 20 nov 20, 00:56:19, Andy Smith wrote: > > I have tried both the buster netboot.tar.gz and the daily d-i build > and get the same behaviour with both. > > I've also read the relevant part of the release notes: > > https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd64/ch04s05.en.html > > and

Problems PXE booting a UEFI debian-installer

2020-11-19 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, I'm new to machines that absolutely require EFI booting. I have a machine that only has NVMe devices, and I understand it needs to be installed in EFI mode to boot. I'm trying to install by PXE. I've done this hundreds of times with a legacy BIOS, but it's not working for me in EFI mode and