Realtek 8111\8168 & undionly.kpxe -> hangs on Initialising Devices...

Andy Abplanalp

I know the dev team has made leaps and bounds in this area since I originally started the topic. Have you tried the ipxe.kpxe file I uploaded to this thread?

K3nnyfr

Same “iPXE initializing devices…_”

K3nnyfr

[quote=“tamatech, post: 30826, member: 24111”]I know the dev team has made leaps and bounds in this area since I originally started the topic. Have you tried the ipxe.kpxe file I uploaded to this thread?[/quote]

Yes same status with your ipxe.kpxe file…

Andy Abplanalp

Have you explored all of these - including the .INTEL one?

[url]http://sourceforge.net/p/freeghost/code/1769/tree//trunk/packages/tftp/[/url]

andjjru

Did you try undionly.kkpxe as I recommended earlier in the thread?

K3nnyfr

[quote=“andjjru, post: 30830, member: 575”]Did you try undionly.kkpxe as I recommended earlier in the thread?[/quote]

yup

K3nnyfr

[quote=“tamatech, post: 30829, member: 24111”]Have you explored all of these - including the .INTEL one?

[url]http://sourceforge.net/p/freeghost/code/1769/tree//trunk/packages/tftp/[/url][/quote]

nope, i’ll try them right now

K3nnyfr

I tried your files, nothing better.

FOG still works fine with other computers. I have that issue with that model only =/

If anyone has the magic pack of *.kpxe files it would be great to deliver !

Tom Elliott

[quote=“K3nnyfr, post: 30834, member: 17017”]I tried your files, nothing better.

FOG still works fine with other computers. I have that issue with that model only =/

If anyone has the magic pack of *.kpxe files it would be great to deliver ![/quote]

Can you try one of the more recent kpxe/kkpxe files:
[url]https://svn.code.sf.net/p/freeghost/code/trunk/packages/tftp/[/url]

K3nnyfr

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 30835, member: 7271”]Can you try one of the more recent kpxe/kkpxe files:
[url]https://svn.code.sf.net/p/freeghost/code/trunk/packages/tftp/[/url][/quote]

Hi Tom, i’ll try it tomorrow morning (it’s 20h07, CEST here), i leaved work for now.

I will download all the files you provided and replace the existant and tell you if it works.

Just saw that on gPXE wiki :
[QUOTE]
[SIZE=4][B][FONT=Lucida Grande][SIZE=21px][COLOR=#000000][SIZE=3]How to Fix[/SIZE][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/B][/SIZE]

[SIZE=16px][FONT=Lucida Grande][COLOR=#000000][LIST]
[*][SIZE=3]Buy another NIC. Really. I tried two and both did never work reliably (link problems – either no link detected or DHCP answers missed – could be a firmware issue, but how do I fix the firmware when I need to boot with that NIC??).[/SIZE]
[/LIST][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
[/QUOTE]

Made me laugh =P

Junkhacker

that’s part of the reason i asked what happens if you boot into windows and restart. for some nics the windows drivers properly initialize and shut off the card, allowing the card to properly initialize on the next boot. but a non-windows reboot may not.

K3nnyfr

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 30835, member: 7271”]Can you try one of the more recent kpxe/kkpxe files:
[url]https://svn.code.sf.net/p/freeghost/code/trunk/packages/tftp/[/url][/quote]

Hi there, I’ve replaced all the exisiting files with those on the SVN, we tried them one by one.

Sometimes the screen is cleaned and a “iPxe Initializing devices…” appears, sometimes the same screen as before.

Nothing better or worst.

Tom Elliott

When you say you’re trying these files, are you replacing the “broken” undionly.kpxe with the file, or just downloading them into the /tftpboot folder?

K3nnyfr

This is what we did (with my trainees)
[LIST]
[]service tftp-hpa stop && service isc-dhcp-server stop
[]mv tftpboot tftpboot.bak
[]mkdir tftpboot
[]wget all the files in that fresh folder
[*]edit /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf
[/LIST]
In that file we replaced succesively the filename property with the different .kpxe/.kkpxe file in tftpboot folder.
Then start up tftp-hpa and isc-dhcpd and boot up our problematic device.
Am I doin it right ? Are we totally wrong doing it ?
Should we procede otherwise ?

Cheers and thanks for your support !

Tom Elliott

It sounds like you’re doing it “right” persay, but doing a lot of extra work.

Really, you can “cheatify it” as such.

No need to stop tftp-hpa or tftpd-hpa or isc-dhcp-server
Doing the first few steps just as you did:
[code]mv /tftpboot /tftpboot.bak
mkdir /tftpboot
cd /tftpboot
wget -r ftp https://svn.code.sf.net/p/freeghost/code/trunk/packages/tftp/*
[/code]

Then move the undionly.kpxe file to undionly.kpxe_MAIN
[code]mv /tftpboot/undionly.kpxe /tftpboot/undionly.kpxe_MAIN[/code]

Then just create symbolic links to undionly.kpxe from the file you want to try out. For example:
[code]ln -s /tftpboot/undionly.kkpxe /tftpboot/undionly.kpxe[/code]

You don’t have to keep rebooting services to test it. When you’re ready to try another file you simply:
[code]rm /tftpboot/undionly.kpxe; ln -s /tftpboot/<NEWFILETOTEST> /tftpboot/undionly.kpxe[/code]

K3nnyfr

Your wget command didn’t work for me, I did

[CODE]wget -i listdownload.txt[/CODE]

with that list

I’m trying with symbolic links now.

Edit : got that screen with undionly.kpxe and undionly.kkpxe

[url=“/_imported_xf_attachments/1/1026_2014-06-20 14.20.43.jpg?:”]2014-06-20 14.20.43.jpg[/url]

K3nnyfr

Update:

We’ve updated the BIOS for our problematic device (Lenovo Thincenter E72 3493-KAG) and now the PXE boot goes a little further

With :
[LIST]
[]ipxe.kpxe : it goes further, gets a Configuring line, display a timeout i got on camera then loads windows
[]undionly.kpxe : it goes further, gets a Configuring line but then quickly the screen goes black and it load Windows
[]undionly.kkpxe : same
[]undionly.kpxe.INTEL : same
[*]undionly.pxe : bootloop
[/LIST]
[media=youtube]e2ohnkfJhGU[/media]

[url=“/_imported_xf_attachments/1/1027_2014-06-20 15.00.44.jpg?:”]2014-06-20 15.00.44.jpg[/url]

K3nnyfr

I’m so stupid.

I FORGOT TO RE-ADD THE DEFAULT.IPXE FILE SO IT CANNOT BOOT !!!

It’s now loading properly =D

To conclude :

FOG Fresh install of 1.1.1
Use the latest trunk files that Tom gave/ Use my command script to retrieve them in /tftpboot
chown them with the right user:group (fog:root)
recreate the Default.ipxe file
Flash your BIOS with latest update so it can properly boot up iPxe (for Lenovo 3493-KAG : [url]http://support.lenovo.com/en_GB/downloads/default.page?selector=expand[/url])
File to use for Realtek 8111 network card is undionly.kpxe provided by Tom

Thanks Tom, Junkhacker, andjjru and tamatech for your support !!!

K3nnyfr

I made a video tutorial for USB Boot Drive creation and BIOS Update then PXE Boot with FOG 1.1.1

[media=youtube]NcKNp6gEH1o[/media]

Enjoy the show !

netbootdisk

Gigabyte [URL=‘http://www.gigabyte.com.au/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3475#ov’]GA-880GM-UD2H[/URL] motherboard with Realtek 8111 also suffers this problem.

Unfortunately the machine is in another city so I can’t test further yet.

Realtek 8111\8168 & undionly.kpxe -> hangs on Initialising Devices...

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