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stuck at "ipxe initialising devices.." (Lenovo)

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    Sebastian Roth Moderator
    last edited by Sep 19, 2017, 7:21 PM

    @Jim-Holcomb Which iPXE binary do you use? Tried different ones? ipxe.efi, realtek.efi, snp.efi or snponly.efi?

    Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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      Jim Holcomb @Sebastian Roth
      last edited by Sep 19, 2017, 7:29 PM

      @sebastian-roth I am using undionly.kpxe I haven’t tried any others as I have never had to do this before (that I recall) and the other 99% of thge fleet is working just fine on this one. If I were to change it, I suppose I change it in the DHCP reservations area? Where is it picking up this file from?

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        george1421 Moderator @Jim Holcomb
        last edited by Sep 19, 2017, 7:50 PM

        @jim-holcomb said in stuck at "ipxe initialising devices.." (Lenovo):

        I am using undionly.kpxe

        Is the device in uefi or bios (legacy) mode? >UEFI

        Whelp these to are incompatible. For uefi mode you need to send ipxe.efi to the target computer. But one would think that you should get an error before that if you are sending a bios mode file to a uefi based computer. Unless the computer auto switches based on the boot medium. I know some servers will do that.

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          Jim Holcomb @george1421
          last edited by Sep 19, 2017, 8:01 PM

          @george1421 So what needs to be change? MY PC to IDE mode in BiOS?

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            george1421 Moderator @Jim Holcomb
            last edited by Sep 19, 2017, 8:55 PM

            @jim-holcomb Well if the PC is in uefi mode, you need to update your dhcp server to send ipxe.efi instead of undionly.kpxe as a test to see if you can boot this lenovo. If it works then you need to make a decision about the path forward.

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              Jim Holcomb @Sebastian Roth
              last edited by Sep 19, 2017, 11:21 PM

              @sebastian-roth Which would you suggest I use here?

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                Jim Holcomb @george1421
                last edited by Sep 19, 2017, 11:34 PM

                @george1421 Tried ipxe.efi and realtek.efi - no changes

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                  Jim Holcomb @Sebastian Roth
                  last edited by Sep 20, 2017, 12:00 AM

                  @sebastian-roth Tried all of these - no joy! Anyone - anywhere - have any other ideas???

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                    Jim Holcomb @Jim Holcomb
                    last edited by Sep 20, 2017, 12:11 AM

                    @jim-holcomb Out of ALL of these options, I finally got it to work with undionly.kkpxe

                    Thanks everyone for at least getting me on the right path here. -Jim

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                      george1421 Moderator @Jim Holcomb
                      last edited by Sep 20, 2017, 12:38 AM

                      @jim-holcomb snarky answer: Dude, you should have bought a Dell…
                      We have seen more issues with EFI and flaky Lenovo firmware than most other manufacturers hardware.

                      I am a bit surprised that ipxe.efi or snponly.efi did not work with your network adapter. Did they all stop at initializing devices?

                      If you don’t need uefi mode, switch the device back to legacy (bios) mode. That should fix your startup issues. You do have to be aware if you want to deploy an captured OS to a UEFI system, the image must have been captured from a UEFI system. You can not deploy a bios based source image to a uefi based target computer.

                      We do have a solution for the those systems that can/won’t pxe boot into iPXE. You can try to boot directly into FOS using a usb boot drive. The instructions and caveats are outlined here: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/7727/building-usb-booting-fos-image

                      I can get you quickly up to step seven in the instructions. I just rebuilt the boot image the other day. I’ll DM you a link to it. Use rufus to “burn” the image to a 512MB or larger usb flash drive. If FOS can’t init your network adapter then you might consider using a usb network adapter with a usb boot. But lets try the FOS boot.

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                        Wayne Workman
                        last edited by Sep 20, 2017, 12:44 AM

                        I’ve had one major problem that simply could not be resolved with one Lenovo model once…

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                          Sebastian Roth Moderator
                          last edited by Sep 20, 2017, 5:47 AM

                          To me this sounds as if the OP never had IT in UEFI mode. I am pretty sure of that because when you try to PXE boot a legacy binary in UEFI it should not even get as far as “initializing devices” …

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