Re: [ipxe-devel] iPXE and Secure Boot

2023-02-13 Thread Alex Chernyakhovsky via ipxe-devel
lling to sign each other's keys, but I have met plenty of folks that consider "in person meeting and show government ID" to be the bar. Take a look at https://wiki.debian.org/Keysigning/Coordination and https://wiki.debian.org/DebianLocations. Sincerely, -Alex On Fri, Feb 10, 202

Re: [ipxe-devel] Help with iPXE, wimboot and PXELinux

2022-07-02 Thread Alex Leo
The script was the culprit indeed, it returned as PXE-NBP. It loads up fine now Thanks! On Sat, 2 Jul 2022 at 15:27, Alex Leo wrote: > I'll check the apache logs later today. > Regarding ipxe.lkrn I know it works since the example > http://boot.ipxe.org/demo/boot.php loads f

Re: [ipxe-devel] Help with iPXE, wimboot and PXELinux

2022-07-02 Thread Alex Leo
ead the pined topics in the forum it explains the state. Didn't notice that discussion was moved to GitHub. I was checking by last reply and saw forum was somewhat active. On Sat, Jul 2, 2022, 10:54 AM Christian Iwata Nilsson, wrote: > > > On Sat, 2 Jul 2022, 04:39 Alex Leo

[ipxe-devel] Help with iPXE, wimboot and PXELinux

2022-07-01 Thread Alex Leo
PEND dhcp && chain http://192.168.10.123/windows/win2019/boot.ipxe Anyone have ideas why it won't boot? I have wimboot in same directory as boot.ipxe Alex ___ ipxe-devel mailing list ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo/ipxe-devel

[ipxe-devel] [ipxe/pipxe] Missing pieces of the quickstart? (#4)

2020-07-15 Thread Alex Ellis
Hi, I was wanting to try out this tool, but the quickstart seems to carry some implied knowledge, or be missing some steps: 1 Download sdcard.img and write it onto any blank micro SD card using a tool such as dd or Etcher. 2 Insert the micro SD card into your Raspberry Pi. 3 Power on your Raspbe

[ipxe-devel] TFTP upload

2017-11-30 Thread Alex Vaserfirer
e solution? Thank you. Alex Vaserfirer Principal Engineer office: 1 (972) 633-3409 alex.vaserfi...@unicomengineering.com<mailto:alex.vaserfi...@unicomengineering.com> <http://www.unicomengineering.com/> [cid:6edc8b4ebdfb48a0af35af483839ea02] <http://

[ipxe-devel] The problem with operation of IMA of images of HDD is more than 2GB

2015-04-24 Thread Alex
Hello. I couldn't create a subject at your forum therefore I send the message to you on email: "Im create HDD image from physical hdd 3,5 GB. On this hdd one boot partition 3.5GB, FAT32 and installing DOS(from win98). On this partition there is a lot of different files, the total size of all fil

[ipxe-devel] LACP issues

2015-04-21 Thread Alex Orange
t the switch reports the LACP links as being inactive (not down which is what happens when nothing's plugged in). Any suggestions? In particular what can I do to further diagnose this issue (can I watch packets that iPXE is sending/receiving)? I'm using the i

Re: [ipxe-devel] [RESEND PATCH] [dhcp] Extract timing parameters out to header and document

2015-02-24 Thread Alex Williamson
Hi Michael, Can you suggest anything that would make you consider taking this patch? Thanks, Alex On Mon, 2015-02-09 at 12:52 -0700, Alex Williamson wrote: > iPXE uses DHCP timeouts loosely based on values recommended by the > specification, but often abbreviated to reduce timeouts for re

[ipxe-devel] [RESEND PATCH] [dhcp] Extract timing parameters out to header and document

2015-02-09 Thread Alex Williamson
#undef PXEBS_MAX_TIMEOUT_SEC #define PXEBS_MAX_TIMEOUT_SEC 7 Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson --- Michael, does this look reasonable or can you suggest a better mechanism for downstreams to tune DHCP timeouts for customers on topologies that require something more spec compliant without

[ipxe-devel] [PATCH] [dhcp] Extract timing parameters out to header and document

2015-01-26 Thread Alex Williamson
#undef PXEBS_MAX_TIMEOUT_SEC #define PXEBS_MAX_TIMEOUT_SEC 7 Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson --- src/config/general.h| 61 +++ src/include/ipxe/dhcp.h | 11 +--- src/net/udp/dhcp.c | 31 ++-- 3 files

[ipxe-devel] [RE-RESEND PATCH] [dhcp] More spec compliant DHCP/PXE timeouts

2014-09-17 Thread Alex Williamson
request phase. Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson --- This continues to be a problem that customer complain about. The xNBA version of ipxe has already included this commit [1][2]. Others have also expressed support for this patch in the past [3]. Previous postings of this patch can be found here

[ipxe-devel] Apple EFI Issue, Looking to Write a Patch

2014-06-28 Thread Alex McWhirter
This is more or less an issue with Apple choosing to create their own EFI system rather than adhere to standards. gPXE and early iPXE builds work great with Apple EFI due the the fact that gPXE/iPXE would forcibly reset the network drivers rather than allow EFI to control this. This was fixed in

Re: [ipxe-devel] serial arrow keys broken

2014-04-22 Thread Alex Davies
operation? Obviously, we can just comment that line out, but if the only downside is a slightly higher CPU usage during menu versus keys not working it seems that erring on the always-works option by default might be sensible. Either way, thank you for your help! -Alex On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 3:24 PM

Re: [ipxe-devel] serial arrow keys broken

2014-04-17 Thread Alex Davies
enu and got to the ipxe command line what do you get when > you press the arrow keys? > > > On 9 April 2014 03:41, Alex Davies wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> We had the same problem using SOL on Dell hardware. >> >> I tried both your patch Michael and the divi

Re: [ipxe-devel] serial arrow keys broken

2014-04-17 Thread Alex Davies
A, B, C and D. Here I pressed the key after each word (e.g. "u", "p", up A down B right C left D up: command not found -Alex From: Alex Davies [mailto:a...@davz.net] Sent: 11 April 2014 23:18 To: Alex Davies Subject: Fwd: [ipxe-devel] serial arrow keys broken

Re: [ipxe-devel] serial arrow keys broken

2014-04-09 Thread Alex Davies
something. What debug flag should I enable to see what it is getting? The menu is working nicely with color and if I connect to the 'full console' via the DRAC, and move the arrow key, the SOL menu refreshes correctly. Thanks! -Alex On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Michael Brown wrote:

[ipxe-devel] [PATCH v2] ipxe: Allow config option to disable banner at ROM init

2014-02-25 Thread Alex Williamson
t where we try to boot from the NIC. This change allows downstream distributions to modify or disable either timeout for their particular needs. Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson --- v2: Allow independent configuration of each banner timeout. Michael, if I haven't captured your suggestion

[ipxe-devel] [PATCH v2 3/3] [romprefix] Store boot bus:dev.fn

2014-02-25 Thread Alex Williamson
ation. Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson --- src/arch/i386/prefix/romprefix.S | 13 - 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/arch/i386/prefix/romprefix.S b/src/arch/i386/prefix/romprefix.S index 091673d..3a80a20 100644 --- a/src/arch/i386/prefix/romprefix.S +++

[ipxe-devel] [PATCH v2 2/3] [i386/core] Add support for setting autoboot_device from BSS

2014-02-25 Thread Alex Williamson
Add an i386 specifical initialization hook and BSS data to allow prefix code to store autoboot device information. Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson --- src/arch/i386/core/pci_autoboot_device.c | 52 ++ 1 file changed, 52 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/arch

[ipxe-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] ipxe/autoboot: Boot only from requested device

2014-02-25 Thread Alex Williamson
device in another device ROM, ex. wifi iPXE loaded from wired NIC ROM space. Thanks, Alex --- Alex Williamson (3): [autoboot] Enable infrastructure to specify an autoboot device location [i386/core] Add support for setting autoboot_device from BSS [romprefix] Store boot bus:dev.fn

[ipxe-devel] [PATCH v2 1/3] [autoboot] Enable infrastructure to specify an autoboot device location

2014-02-25 Thread Alex Williamson
means that all netdevs matching the autoboot device location will be given priority. The previous behavior of attempting boot from any netdev is preserved in the case where no matching netdevs are found, which includes the case of an autoboot device being unspecified. Signed-off-by: Alex

Re: [ipxe-devel] How iPXE detect PCI version?

2014-02-24 Thread Alex Williamson
> This means that PCI version is PCI2.1 right? How iPXE check this? It's in reference to the PCI BIOS version, not to the PCI hardware specification of the device. Thanks, Alex ___ ipxe-devel mailing list ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org https://li

[ipxe-devel] [RESEND PATCH] [dhcp] More spec compliant DHCP/PXE timeouts

2014-02-17 Thread Alex Williamson
request phase. Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson --- I posted this previously[1] and prior to that also sent a question to the list asking why iPXE uses the non-spec compliant DHCP timeouts that it does[2]. There was some support for this patch[3], but it was never commited. My ping a couple

[ipxe-devel] [PATCH] ipxe/autoboot: Boot only from requested device

2014-02-12 Thread Alex Williamson
pt to autoboot remaining devices. The remaining devices are still available for interactive or scripted boot. Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson --- Changes since RFC: - Found how to properly store and retrieve data across real/protected - Switch to "preferred" flag on device_descr

[ipxe-devel] [PATCH] ipxe: Allow config option to disable banner at ROM init

2014-02-06 Thread Alex Williamson
t where we try to boot from the NIC. This change allows downstream distributions to optionally disable the ROM init-time banner while retaining the boot-time banner to create a single binary supporting both use cases. Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson --- src/arch/i386/prefix/romprefix.S |2 ++

[ipxe-devel] [RFC PATCH] ipxe/autoboot: Boot only from requested device

2014-02-04 Thread Alex Williamson
are better ways to handle the assembly and pass the data between real and protected modes (I don't claim to know x86 assembly). [1] http://lists.ipxe.org/pipermail/ipxe-devel/2013-November/002944.html Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson --- src/arch/i386/prefix/romprefix.S | 21 +++

[ipxe-devel] BCV support.

2013-12-26 Thread Alex Markuze
Hi, Guys. We are planning to start working on adding BCV support based on ipxe code. Any reason why the iSCSI support and sun_hook are implemented above the BEV not the BCV as the PnP spec suggests? Any major issues that we may encounter in this effort? Thanks Alex

[ipxe-devel] multiple NICs using same driver and boot order

2013-11-26 Thread Alex Williamson
we can get this working like it's supposed to? Thanks, Alex ___ ipxe-devel mailing list ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ipxe-devel

Re: [ipxe-devel] ipxe infiniband layer possible bug

2013-11-08 Thread Alex Markuze
Hi, Milan. The ConnectX3 cards have Mellanox modified version of ipxe , FlexBoot(http://www.mellanox.com/page/products_dyn?product_family=34&mtag=flexboot). The issue you are describing may be connected to autosensing , when the nic doesn't recognize the link layer correctly. Please try burning

Re: [ipxe-devel] Two ports on one PCI function , Issue.

2013-07-13 Thread Alex Markuze
Perfect, It may take some time to see if this fixes the issue we have been seeing. I will get back to this mailing list with feedback when I have one. Thanks for the effort Michael. Alex -Original Message- From: Michael Brown [mailto:mbr...@fensystems.co.uk] Sent: Saturday, July 13

Re: [ipxe-devel] Two ports on one PCI function , Issue.

2013-07-13 Thread Alex Markuze
Thanks for the info. Unfortunately the configuration from net0 will persist within the undi interface - the OS driver will use the wrong configuration. -Original Message- From: Michael Brown [mailto:mbr...@fensystems.co.uk] Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2013 4:31 PM To: Alex Markuze Cc: ipxe

Re: [ipxe-devel] [PATCH] [autoboot] Use next-server from filename settings block

2013-06-24 Thread Alex Williamson
On Mon, 2013-06-24 at 17:07 +0100, Michael Brown wrote: > On 21/06/13 22:15, Alex Williamson wrote: > > Ping. Comments? > > One issue: fetch_settings_origin() will return NULL if the setting is > not found, but passing in NULL to the subsequent fetch_ipv4_setting() > will

Re: [ipxe-devel] [PATCH] [dhcp] More spec compliant DHCP/PXE timeouts

2013-06-21 Thread Alex Williamson
Ping. Comments? There was one +1 for some fix in this space. Thanks, Alex On Fri, 2013-06-07 at 14:22 -0600, Alex Williamson wrote: > For discovery, both the DHCP and PXE specs suggest timeouts of 4, 8, > 16, and 32 seconds. This gives us a maximum timeout of 60 seconds, > versus th

Re: [ipxe-devel] [PATCH] [autoboot] Use next-server from filename settings block

2013-06-21 Thread Alex Williamson
Ping. Comments? Thanks, Alex On Fri, 2013-06-07 at 09:38 -0600, Alex Williamson wrote: > In cases where we have both a DHCP and ProxyDHCP response we retrieve > the next-server and filename independently. This means they can > actually come from different settings blocks. For insta

[ipxe-devel] [PATCH] [dhcp] More spec compliant DHCP/PXE timeouts

2013-06-07 Thread Alex Williamson
request phase. Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson --- src/include/ipxe/dhcp.h |4 src/net/udp/dhcp.c | 22 +- 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/include/ipxe/dhcp.h b/src/include/ipxe/dhcp.h index b97dfe3..f3f7185 100644 --- a/src

[ipxe-devel] [PATCH] [autoboot] Use next-server from filename settings block

2013-06-07 Thread Alex Williamson
-server from net0.dhcp. It's sensible that filename+next-server should be treated as a pair and retrieved from the same settings block. Re-order fetch_next_server_and_filename to get filename first, find the origin settings block, and get next_server from the same. Signed-off-by: Alex Willi

Re: [ipxe-devel] DHCP/ProxyDHCP settings ordering bug

2013-06-07 Thread Alex Williamson
On Fri, 2013-06-07 at 13:28 +0100, Michael Brown wrote: > On 06/06/13 23:37, Alex Williamson wrote: > > When iPXE tries to boot in the above environment, it tries to load > > tftp://10.0.0.1/pxelinux.0 as the boot file. The next-server comes from > > server1's DHCP pack

[ipxe-devel] DHCP/ProxyDHCP settings ordering bug

2013-06-06 Thread Alex Williamson
an't add an artificial priority to get them in the correct order. Registering the settings from the ProxyDHCP packet before the DHCP packet does work, but it's ugly and prone to being broken by changes to the list manipulation code in settings. Suggestions? Thanks, Alex __

[ipxe-devel] DHCP timeouts

2013-06-05 Thread Alex Williamson
t includes the PXEClient tag. iPXE waits for 2 seconds total to have elapsed. Why? Are we just trying to reduce that 12 second delay in a non-PXE environment? If there's agreement that at least the discovery phase should be something closer to the spec defined intervals, I can post a patch

Re: [ipxe-devel] 64 bit bARS support.

2013-05-26 Thread Alex Markuze
mailto:mbr...@fensystems.co.uk] Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 3:16 PM To: Alex Markuze Cc: ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org Subject: Re: [ipxe-devel] 64 bit bARS support. On 24/05/13 10:54, Alex Markuze wrote: > I've noticed that the iPXE code has macros and comments regarding the > support of 64 bit BAR ad

[ipxe-devel] Two ports on one PCI function , Issue.

2013-05-24 Thread Alex Markuze
Hi, On Mellanox NICs both ports share the same PCI bus function, the iPXE supports this by allowing several net devices. Unfortunately when both ports are connected to a subnet with a DHCP/BOOT server. If the first port finishes the DHCP process and downloads the menu , but the uses chooses to a

[ipxe-devel] 64 bit bARS support.

2013-05-24 Thread Alex Markuze
Hello, I've noticed that the iPXE code has macros and comments regarding the support of 64 bit BAR addresses. Has this code been ever validated? Does it work or does it still need patching? Thanks ___ ipxe-devel mailing list ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org h

Re: [ipxe-devel] Backslash in chain scripts converted to %5c - escaping issue

2012-05-30 Thread Alex Davies
hanks, Alex On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Oliver Rath wrote: > Hi Alex > > Am 30.05.2012 12:59, schrieb Oliver Rath: >> [..] >> >> Am 30.05.2012 12:42, schrieb Alex Davies: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> If I enter iPXE shell and enter "chain

[ipxe-devel] Backslash in chain scripts converted to %5c - escaping issue

2012-05-30 Thread Alex Davies
e slashing and adding quotes to no avail (these escape characters are simply converted too). Is there another way? Thanks, Alex -- Alex Davies This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. I

Re: [ipxe-devel] iPXE (undionly.kpxe) chain load to WDS server

2012-05-15 Thread Alex Davies
This works - thanks! Is net0 always the 'correct' one (say if the server booted from NIC2)? Thanks, Alex On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Michael Brown wrote: > On Tuesday 15 May 2012 11:08:15 Alex Davies wrote: > > If I point iPXE directly to tftp://ip.of.wds/pxelinux.n12

[ipxe-devel] iPXE (undionly.kpxe) chain load to WDS server

2012-05-15 Thread Alex Davies
ve thought that I should be able to override this in iPXE with a set command. Does anyone know if this is possible and if so what to 'set'? Thanks, Alex -- Alex Davies This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or e

Re: [ipxe-devel] error: dereferencing pointer ‘pos’ does break strict-aliasing rules

2012-05-08 Thread Alex Davies
oduce this error. > > Ignore that.  I managed to reproduce the error on an older version of gcc > (4.4.1).  Should now be fixed: > >  http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commitdiff/6a4b128 > > Michael -- Alex Davies This email and any files transmitted with it are confidentia

[ipxe-devel] error: dereferencing pointer ‘pos’ does break strict-aliasing rules

2012-05-04 Thread Alex Davies
’ does break strict-aliasing rules tests/list_test.c:437: note: initialized from here make: *** [bin/list_test.o] Error 1 I get no such error building 838a76a042684. Thanks, Alex -- Alex Davies This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use

Re: [ipxe-devel] Loading large initrd images without iPXE rebooting or error 2a818006

2012-04-01 Thread Alex Davies
that just runs wget to pull down a large image, which should not be too complicated, but i'm loath to reinvent a wheel. Thanks, Alex On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Jarrod Johnson wrote: > xCAT stateless -- Alex Davies This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential

[ipxe-devel] Loading large initrd images without iPXE rebooting or error 2a818006

2012-03-30 Thread Alex Davies
64 bit version of unidonly.kpxe that can address all the system memory? Failing that, is anybody else booting large initrd images successfully with iPXE? Thanks, Alex ___ ipxe-devel mailing list ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman

Re: [ipxe-devel] UNDI Memory Error

2012-03-30 Thread Alex Davies
Just to follow this up in case anybody else finds this thread, after some internal work to allow us to remove the legacy system, we have done exactly as you suggest and had iPXE working well in testing for several weeks now. Thanks! -Alex On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Gabriel Barazer wrote

Re: [ipxe-devel] UNDI Memory Error

2012-02-29 Thread Alex Davies
That replicates my problem exactly, but I can't remove the first step :( Thanks for confirming, does anyone have an idea of a fix? Is it possible to configure iPXE to show a menu, one option of which is to load pxelinux from iPXE? Thanks, Alex Sent from a mobile device On Feb 29, 2012 3:

[ipxe-devel] UNDI Memory Error

2012-02-29 Thread Alex Davies
on how best to fix / get around this? Thanks, Alex -- From: John Julien [mailto:john at julienfamily.com] Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 5:43 PM To: ipxe-devel at lists.ipxe.org Subject: UNDI Memory Error Hi, I've come across an issue using the UNDI driver of the Broadcom 5709C card.

Re: [ipxe-devel] eepro100 vs qemu

2011-03-14 Thread Alex Williamson
On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 02:13 +, Michael Brown wrote: > On Tuesday 15 Mar 2011 01:25:51 Michael Brown wrote: > > On Monday 14 Mar 2011 19:57:35 Alex Williamson wrote: > > > Ok, sorry for the distraction, I think I can explain it now. Last week > > > I was testing larg

Re: [ipxe-devel] eepro100 vs qemu

2011-03-14 Thread Alex Williamson
On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 01:25 +, Michael Brown wrote: > On Monday 14 Mar 2011 19:57:35 Alex Williamson wrote: > > Ok, sorry for the distraction, I think I can explain it now. Last week > > I was testing large (8G) guests. Today I was trying to figure out how > > the pcne

Re: [ipxe-devel] eepro100 vs qemu

2011-03-14 Thread Alex Williamson
On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 13:18 -0600, Alex Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 12:22 -0600, Alex Williamson wrote: > > On Sat, 2011-03-12 at 12:57 +, Michael Brown wrote: > > > On Saturday 12 Mar 2011 12:05:53 Michael Brown wrote: > > > > On Friday 11 Mar 2011

Re: [ipxe-devel] eepro100 vs qemu

2011-03-14 Thread Alex Williamson
On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 12:22 -0600, Alex Williamson wrote: > On Sat, 2011-03-12 at 12:57 +, Michael Brown wrote: > > On Saturday 12 Mar 2011 12:05:53 Michael Brown wrote: > > > On Friday 11 Mar 2011 18:27:28 Alex Williamson wrote: > > > > I'm looking to refres

Re: [ipxe-devel] eepro100 vs qemu

2011-03-14 Thread Alex Williamson
On Sat, 2011-03-12 at 12:57 +, Michael Brown wrote: > On Saturday 12 Mar 2011 12:05:53 Michael Brown wrote: > > On Friday 11 Mar 2011 18:27:28 Alex Williamson wrote: > > > I'm looking to refresh qemu's PXE ROMs with iPXE, but it looks like the > > > eepr

[ipxe-devel] eepro100 vs qemu

2011-03-11 Thread Alex Williamson
s for tagging a release soon? Thanks, Alex ___ ipxe-devel mailing list ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo/ipxe-devel

Re: [ipxe-devel] [PATCH] [igbvf] Add igbvf driver

2010-12-15 Thread Alex Williamson
On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 04:06 +, Michael Brown wrote: > On Thursday 16 Dec 2010 03:46:56 Alex Williamson wrote: > > > igbvf_vf.c does not build: > > > > > > drivers/net/igbvf/igbvf_vf.c: In function ‘igbvf_update_mc_addr_list_vf’: > > > drivers/net/igbvf

Re: [ipxe-devel] [PATCH] [igbvf] Add igbvf driver

2010-12-15 Thread Alex Williamson
On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 16:51 +, Michael Brown wrote: > On Friday 10 Dec 2010 20:57:21 Alex Williamson wrote: > > Driver for Intel 82576 based virtual functions, based on Intel source > > code available at: > > > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000 (igb