Re: [ipxe-devel] About run iPXE.efi but display No configuration methods successed

2020-09-01 Thread Matthew Helton
Check the DHCP server logs against known failed machines; e.g. ' cat /var/log/messages | grep -i "dhcpd dhcp" ' for messages relating to dhcp. On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 12:06 AM wrote: > Hi, Michael > > Thank you for your reply. > > Because some machines succeed and some machines fail, they all use

Re: [ipxe-devel] better chainload native ipxe-driver (i.e. intel) instead of undionly?

2018-10-15 Thread Matthew Helton
Oliver, I do it all of the time. However depending on the system Architecture, BIOS and Driver support, it can and does introduce some problems with certain hardware. I use the iPXE variables for ${product} to blacklist problematic hardware. Best, Matt On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 7:38 AM Oliver Ra

Re: [ipxe-devel] iPXE Support For Intel 82599ES Card (Question)

2016-06-08 Thread Matthew Helton
Victor, yes it is. Whether or not is able to be burned into a ROM is kind of a vendor-specific question. The 82599 card is a 10GbE chip; many of the newer systems are UEFI, and I haven't really heard if UEFI-enabled ROMs are possible or practical. On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 2:08 PM, Victor Salvacruz

Re: [ipxe-devel] Error

2016-03-13 Thread Matthew Helton
Can we see the boot.php generated? iPXE is/ appears to be working, it just can't find anything in the php script. On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 2:24 AM, wrote: > Hi, > > > > We are trying to boot a Hyper-V VM using PXE so we can upload a image and > get the error below could you assist please? > > > >

[ipxe-devel] EFI SNPonly failing...

2016-01-05 Thread Matthew Helton
Starting about 23/11/2015 the snponly.efi build in my iPXE build environment started to fail... [LD] bin-x86_64-efi/snponly.efi.tmp bin-x86_64-efi/blib.a(memmap_settings.o): In function `memmap_settings_fetch': ipxe/src/core/memmap_settings.c:158: undefined reference to `get_memmap' bin-x86_64-efi

Re: [ipxe-devel] Hard Lock on Chain Load from undionly.kpxe -> ipxe.pxe

2015-08-21 Thread Matthew Helton
More information: The lockup is with VMware v11 VMs in VMware Workstation 11. A Couple of physical hosts will simply spontaneously reboot at the referenced point in process. On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Matthew Helton wrote: > I have observed the following on commit 4e03a: W

[ipxe-devel] Hard Lock on Chain Load from undionly.kpxe -> ipxe.pxe

2015-08-21 Thread Matthew Helton
I have observed the following on commit 4e03a: When chainloading from undionly.ipxe to ipxe.pxe there is a hard lockup: Client system PXEs into undionly.kpxe normally...reaches out for the ${uuid}.ipxe file as normal: [Error code] http://mywebserver.mydomain.net/NetBoot/iPXE/bin/ipxe.pxe... ok PX

[ipxe-devel] Error on EFI compile...

2015-08-18 Thread Matthew Helton
bin-x86_64-efi/blib.a(config.o): In function `__requiring_symbol__': config.c:(.tbl.requiring_symbols+0x0): undefined reference to `obj_vesafb' make: *** [bin-x86_64-efi/ipxe.efi.tmp] Error 1 I do have CentOS7/SL7 binutils installed... not sure what this is. Best, Matt -- There is never time

Re: [ipxe-devel] Problems with Compiling: Commit 2b15ae55073dfbaf66dbbb41ebe804a16cf47f1e

2015-07-27 Thread Matthew Helton
All, Compile went without issue: The compiled code worked on the test cases I currently have (which have been functionally unchanged for over a year). Thank You! Matt On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 5:52 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: > - Original Message - > | On 27/07/15 18:05, James A. Peltie

Re: [ipxe-devel] Problems with Compiling: Commit 2b15ae55073dfbaf66dbbb41ebe804a16cf47f1e

2015-07-27 Thread Matthew Helton
All, Confirming James results on a RHEL/CentOS 6.6 platform... I'm getting the same thing. Best, Matt On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 12:05 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: > Now I wind up with > > > > [BUILD] bin/vsprintf_test.o > [BUILD] bin/x509_test.o > [BUILD] bin/aes.o > cc1: warnings being t

Re: [ipxe-devel] Problems with Compiling: Commit 2b15ae55073dfbaf66dbbb41ebe804a16cf47f1e

2015-07-26 Thread Matthew Helton
James, Agreed. Yes, and we need the requirements for GCC and other packages updated as well. It's fine that a newer platform is needed, but it needs to be documented. Michael, Robin? Matt On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 12:12 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: > The question is, is this intentional code br

Re: [ipxe-devel] Problems with Compiling: Commit 2b15ae55073dfbaf66dbbb41ebe804a16cf47f1e

2015-07-26 Thread Matthew Helton
James, Thank you; it's fixed by migrating to a CentOS 7 build and gcc 4.8.3; as mentioned before in this list you need xz-devel installed or the make will croak at "util/zbin lzma.h: No such file or directory" Best, Matt On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 7:38 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: > Ya, I have t

[ipxe-devel] Problems with Compiling: Commit 2b15ae55073dfbaf66dbbb41ebe804a16cf47f1e

2015-07-25 Thread Matthew Helton
When making: $ make [DEPS] core/xferbuf.c [BUILD] bin/xferbuf.o cc1: warnings being treated as errors core/xferbuf.c: In function ‘xfer_buffer’: core/xferbuf.c:312: error: value computed is not used make: *** [bin/xferbuf.o] Error 1 $ System GCC: gcc.x86_64 4.4.7-11.e

[ipxe-devel] Compile Warning/ Error: core/xferbuf.c:312: error value computed is not used make: *** [bin/xferbuf.o] Error 1

2015-07-24 Thread Matthew Helton
Commit: 2b15ae55073dfbaf66dbbb41ebe804a16cf47f1e cc1: warning being treated as errors core/xferbuf.c: In function 'xfer_buffer': core/xferbuf.c:312: error: value computed is not used make: *** [bin/xferbuf.o] Error 1 -- There is never time enough to do it right, but there always seems to be eno

Re: [ipxe-devel] chaining http script over VLAN is very slow

2015-07-07 Thread Matthew Helton
Which NIC are you using and are you UNDI or using the Native driver? UNDI VLAN support is very spotty vendor to vendor within the UNDI stack. On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 8:33 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: > I have a Dell R730XD which seems to be misbehaving. When booting off a > VLAN it seems that the

[ipxe-devel] DNS Suffix Search List may not work with Microsoft DHCP servers - Fixes!

2014-02-13 Thread Matthew Helton
Hello list. I was testing the latest enhancement for iPXE. It worked perfectly on InfoBlox and ISC DHCPD but couldn't get it work on a Windows DHCP server.. After a little searching, I came up with this: Explanation of the technical problem: http://www.mattzuba.com/2011/03/windows-2008-rc2-dhcp-s

[ipxe-devel] Error 1d704239

2014-02-08 Thread Matthew Helton
Hello All. I received the error: http://ipxe.org/1d704239 last night and saw a previous thread on the list going back to 2010. The cause in this case was an active iSCSI Target which had no disk or disk image file associated with it. Playing with a few other settings (such as deliberately specifyi

Re: [ipxe-devel] 0x040ee119 error if heavy traffic on line

2014-01-20 Thread Matthew Helton
Oliver, Even the largest DHCP servers don't require bonded interfaces except in very specific configurations. This is probably an issue with your DHCP Server: If you are running your DHCP server on a Bonded interface (generally not required), there may be some switch-side configuration settings y

Re: [ipxe-devel] iPXE on SLES10SP2

2013-10-26 Thread Matthew Helton
I work in a SLES Shop: SLES10 SP2 is a very old distro and is nearly 2 years out of support. Using OpenSLES or updating to SLES10 SP4 will probably resolve the issue. IIRC there were issues compiling newer versions of iPXE on the old GCC/Perl used in SLES which were fixed in SLES10 SP3 and SP4.

Re: [ipxe-devel] Install RHEL to iSCSI Target and Boot From iPXE

2013-05-09 Thread Matthew Helton
To me, you are doing it backwards... Boot from iPXE from USB: configure network and mount (Blank) iSCSI Target disk (sanhook) with "keep san 1' and then exit iPXE to boot from the RHEL CD-ROM. On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 8:12 PM, Gruher, Joseph R wrote: > Hello- > > ** ** > > I am trying to b

Re: [ipxe-devel] [Realtek]: Possible bug - cannot load ipxe when intel-sata controller is set to RAID

2013-04-15 Thread Matthew Helton
Joshua, What Michael has said is likely your problem: you are out of option ROM space: To clarify; what Michael is talking about is the RAM the BIOS requires at POST when enumerating BIOS devices (addon/integrated option ROMs). The Patch will allow this to be shifted somewhat in memory; it may hel

Re: [ipxe-devel] Issue with Realtek card and iPXE

2013-01-20 Thread Matthew Helton
I've seen this too with some RealTeks (just last week as a matter of fact); The Foxconn DS42S/DS52S board exhibits this behavior. I haven't tried yet with an ISO or a USB Stick, but it looks like a possible bug in UNDI somewhere. I've got the serial port debugging setup completed hardware-wise. Nee

Re: [ipxe-devel] Booting from local disk on HP ProLiant machines

2013-01-07 Thread Matthew Helton
If you simply exit out of the script instead of trying a local sanboot, does it work? What model HP ProLiant? On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 4:22 AM, Christoph Schug wrote: > Hello, > > I am currently trying to use iPXE for some staged booting environment > where the boot process of each server can be

Re: [ipxe-devel] "Pre-embedding" a kernel within ipxe.pxe?

2012-12-22 Thread Matthew Helton
ng machine with that error message. This is why I would like to see an alternative undionly kernel placed in memory as escape mechanism if the ipxe.pxe kernel cannot find a Natively driven NIC. On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 1:28 AM, Joshua Oreman wrote: > On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Matth

[ipxe-devel] "Pre-embedding" a kernel within ipxe.pxe?

2012-12-22 Thread Matthew Helton
The stray thought occured to me that instead of scripting whitelists/blacklists by system model, or relying on external detection methods (Syslinux or HDT) for NICs, could be ipxe.pxe be altered to carry an alternate kernel within itself? The concept would be that as part of the ipxe.pxe binary; i

Re: [ipxe-devel] (no subject)

2012-12-04 Thread Matthew Helton
Once undionly.kpxe is loaded with no embedded script, you will probably need to do something like the following at minimum: dhcp chain http://%pathtoserver%/hw.ipxe Best, Matt On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 11:58 PM, shawn belknap wrote: > i got a laptop to get the undionly.kpxe ipxe defaults, wh

Re: [ipxe-devel] with dual boot menu on a SAN by iSCSI

2012-12-01 Thread Matthew Helton
Ruben, Buenos Dias, Yes it can, as it turns out, one of the things I am using iPXE for is to boot ThinClients via HTTP using ThinStation5.1; the only thing I am doing differently than you is booting via UUID rather than MAC address. My ThinStation config files are also u

Re: [ipxe-devel] Handling errors in scripts

2012-11-24 Thread Matthew Helton
[quote] 2)I didn't build iPXE with the script, I'm just trying to use undionly.kpxe with the script: [/quote] Right there is your problem, I think. The script is in a remote location, it is not embedded in iPXE. So, when you "run" it via chainload, you are running it from the server (read once), n

Re: [ipxe-devel] Handling errors in scripts

2012-11-24 Thread Matthew Helton
Replied to Forum Thread... I can't see any internal reason why that doesn't work. Maybe some whitespaces somewhere? On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Shao Miller wrote: > Good day, Ty. > > 1. What script are you using? > > 2. How did you build iPXE with that script? > > 3. What version does th

[ipxe-devel] iPXE: UUID mis-ordering.

2012-10-31 Thread Matthew Helton
I've noticed some misordering of the UUID rendering in iPXE, Observed in Asus Gen4 or later Motherboards, and HP's ProLiant Enterprise Servers (G6, G7, G8) "The true" UUID in BIOS/PXE is: Code: 1F00B3E0-00C6-0800-2C4A-BCAEC5280EAD as rendered in the BIOS, PXE UNDI, OS and the iLO information hea