UEFI PXE on Dell Optiplex 7010 hangs
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@BardWood Great to hear! So let’s get right into it. Please let us focus on one hardware at a time. This thread’s topic is Dell Optiplex 7010 and so we head for this. Will get to the X1 when we are done with the Dell. Just don’t want to mix up things as I am pretty sure the issues are different.
So please try PXE booting with
snp.efiorsnponly.efi(instead ofipxe.efi). Does this help? Just wanna make sure before we head into the ugly debugging part of this story.@BardWood said:
So what do I need? Wireshark? Other tools?
Awesome! Seems like you know what you are doing! This will be great fun to work on I am sure. For now we need iPXE and the compiler, no network analyzing tools so far. We might get into this as well but could be that we even don’t need to. Let’s see. Are you good with C code? In case you are happy to compile and debug it yourself I can give instructions on where to look and what to do. If not we’ll do it as usually: I compile iPXE binary (debug enabled and added print out statements) and tell you where to download, you put that on your TFTP server (e.g. /tftpboot on your FOG server) and test. Take a picture from the output and screen and post it back. Then I will compile another one for the next steps and so on.
So as a start try the other binaries I suggested and if it doesn’t work change back to
ipxe.efi, boot the 7010 and take a picture of the hang on screen. I am fairly sure I know how it looks like but wanna make sure there is nothing overlooked. -
Working on this in a chat session with @BardWood it looks as if none of the current iPXE binaries work on those machines. So we will get into debugging.
Please try
01_ipxe.efi(download - compiles withDEBUG=efi_image,image_cmd,image) and post picture or video here in the forum. Best if you use the same counter which I have in the iPXE filename for the pics/vids as well so it’s easy to reference. -
@sebastian-roth I just grabbed a 7010 from the build up room. Let me get setup to repeat the test here.
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@george1421 No joy with 01_ipxe.efi or stock ipxe.efi. Stops at init devices.
Its been at this screen for 20 minutes now.
(Yes I need to clean my monitor)
Update: After about 25-30 minutes iPXE appears to abort to no bootable device (Dell firmware prompt)
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@george1421 Nice, thanks! So here is
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@sebastian-roth No joy at the moment. My phone hates me not sending email with picture. Last call was to 0x0xd4463b88. Posted after init devices…
Here is the pict from #2
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@george1421 @BardWood Next to test is
03_ipxe.efi. Please post picture of the screen when it hangs…Could be another EFI timer issue (something we had a lot of trouble with the MS Surface devices…)
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@sebastian-roth I’m home right now, but I did update the picture. I’ll hit 03 in my AM tomorrow.
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@BardWood Ok, thanks! Sure I was wrong about the EFI timer, thank god.
@george1421 HAHAHAHA… I’ve been there… years ago. But couldn’t remember. LOL See here: http://forum.ipxe.org/showthread.php?tid=7877
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@BardWood Here is
04_ipxe.efi(compiled with DEBUG=init,runtime,efi_timer,device,pci option). Please try again and post a picture. -
@sebastian-roth 04_ipxe.efi:
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@BardWood Ok, here is ready to go
05_ipxe.efi(DEBUG=init,efi_utils,efi_driver,efi_pci). This time I guess you need to take a video of the messages passing by on screen. Make sure to rest the camera/smartphone e.g. on a pile of books so we get a decent steady picture. Would be great if you could even take a video with 60 fps which most smartphones are capable of these days!But if there’s too much output on screen and you can’t take a proper video you might test
06_ipxe.efi(DEBUG=init,efi_utils,efi_pci)…@george1421 Re-reading all the stuff we tried back in 2015 I get the impression that the issue with those 7010s is that for some reason the native Intel driver is not being used. Then it tries SNP and for some reason that fails. More or less a guess though.
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RE: 05 = Wowsa! Yea, much output. My phone won’t let me video yet because the battery is too low (???). I’ll capture a video later but I cant even read it in person it scrolls by really fast. I’ll do what I can.
RE: 06 =
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@BardWood Ok, seems like it actually does see it as being a proper Intel NIC. I think we are on the right track. Though it definitely needs more work than I had expected. Keep it up and hopefully you can get a good video (60 fps!!) of it. This is where digital devices have a great advantage over our eyes.
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@sebastian-roth Well let me say I’ve very disappointed in this latest iphone upgrade. Its really driving me crazy at the moment.
I finally have the download figured out. I’ll get you the link to the
05 = Wowsa!video in a moment, or when ever my iphone decides to email me the video
Intersting messages in video00:16.0 (8086:1e3d class 0708000) has no driver 00:16.1 cannot read PCI configuration: No such device http://ipxe.org/0x2c044087 00:16.3 (8086:1e3d class 0708002) has no driver 00:19.0 (8086:1502 class 020000) has driver "82579lm" has driver "PCI" disconnecting existing driversThen loops forever
Has driver "MII" DRIVER_START Refusing to start during disconnection has driver "SNP" DRIVER_START refusing to start during disconnection -
@sebastian-roth Unfortunately I can’t capture 60 FPS video on a Motorola Droid Turbo. I thought it was an artificial limitation since the camera is capable of it spec-wise but when I tried in Open Camera, I got the same message. I’ll see if I can get our photographer buf to do it on her iPhone 6.
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@sebastian-roth OK have a ~1Gb video file I’m trying to upload to flickr of 05 but a quick glance tells me it’s scrolling the same info in a loop. Here is a screenshot:
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@sebastian-roth here is the video of 05 on flickr https://www.flickr.com/gp/138098812@N03/D0569a
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@bardwood FWIW: Your video is repeating in the same spot as mine.
It would be interesting to know what is causing the “Disconnecting existing drivers” line to post. I think that may be the root of the issue.
