Dell 7010 Lenovo L530 with UEFI enabled, won't network boot.
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Not sure if it is a good idea to try to get both working at the same time. It’s probably a very different issue and things with be more confusing and complex as they are already if you keep mixing up posts. But hey, give it a go. For the Lenovo I’d suggest try this build:
[CODE]make bin-x86_64-efi/ipxe.efi EMBED=ipxescriptfile DEBUG=efiprefix,efidrvprefix[/CODE]Lenovo comes with a Realtek RTL8111F Gigabit Network adapter, right?? From what I can see in the code iPXE “should” also support this NIC. So you can go the same way as with your Dell an build a realtek-only-EFI binary.
[CODE]make bin-x86_64-efi/realtek.efi EMBED=ipxescriptfile DEBUG=realtek:3[/CODE]
Play with those and let us know what you get from it…
Edit: Didn’t know that there are so many different (but similar) RTL8111 NICs… [url]http://www.realtek.com.tw/products/productsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=13&PFid=5&Level=5&Conn=4[/url]
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The dell has an intel NIC, and only one NIC.
The Lenovo has a realtek.
I will attempt to build these files again. Thanks for the help with this… It’s beyond me at the moment, and I’m kinda leaning on you guys for this one.
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Good news is I successfully built the ipxe.efi for the Lenovo (my work laptop).
Bad news is… dnsmasq is screwy and although I put the file name in there where undionly.0 used to be, it seems to not be working.
I did copy the new ipxe.efi to the /tftpboot directory.
I also copied /tftpboot/ipxe.efi to /tftpboot/ipxe.0
I also restarted dnsmasq.
It’s a problem for another day…I’m going to try this at work tomorrow, seeing that I got further there using full DHCP for everything, and I now know what’s needed to build these on Fedora 21.
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But you had it all rinning with ipxe.efi/ipxe.0 already. What’s different now? Please tun tcpdump on the server:
[CODE]sudo tcpdump -i eth0 -w dump.pcap udp[/CODE]
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[quote=“Uncle Frank, post: 45404, member: 28116”]But you had it all rinning with ipxe.efi/ipxe.0 already. What’s different now? Please tun tcpdump on the server:
[CODE]sudo tcpdump -i eth0 -w dump.pcap udp[/CODE][/quote]
I’ve been messing with two FOG servers. One at home, one at work. The one at work uses Windows 2012 DHCP fully, while the one at home uses dnsmasq.
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[quote=“Wayne Workman, post: 45417, member: 28155”]I’ve been messing with two FOG servers. One at home, one at work. The one at work uses Windows 2012 DHCP fully, while the one at home uses dnsmasq.[/quote]
You can install wireshark on your windows DHCP server, can’t you??
I can’t wait to see the new debug output…
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[quote=“Uncle Frank, post: 45435, member: 28116”]You can install wireshark on your windows DHCP server, can’t you??
I can’t wait to see the new debug output…[/quote]
It’s already installed. I’m working on building the files now…
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For the Dell Optiplex 7010,
I built intel.efi using this command:
[FONT=Tahoma][CODE]make bin-x86_64-efi/intel.efi EMBED=ipxescriptfile DEBUG=intel:3[/CODE][/FONT]
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I changed option 067 on the DHCP server to intel.efiBooted up the target computer, and it hangs on this: “Initializing devices…”
Here are packet captures from the DHCP server, and from the FOG server:[url=“/_imported_xf_attachments/1/1869_intel.efi DHCP&FOG.zip?:”]intel.efi DHCP&FOG.zip[/url]
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Just built realtek.efi
The Lenovo L530 does the same thing with realtek.efiJust sits at “iPXE initialising devices…”
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UPDATE:
At work today, I installed FOG/w DHCP on a Dell Optiplex 7010. Revision 3246
I put it on it’s own little isolated network, with no connections to the outside world… on a 100Mbps unmanaged switch (an old Asante).
It serves up x.x.x.x/fog/management and dhcpd is running without errors, and gives out IPs correctly.
On my Lenovo L530 in BIOS mode, I can get to the FOG boot menu.
However, when changing the boot file to ipxe.efi, snp.efi, or snponly.efi and the laptop to UEFI, I get the same thing…
“iPXE initializing devices…” and it just sits there.
An interesting side note is that using this build, and BIOS with undionly.kpxe,
my Lenovo L530 passes all the compatibility checks, but when I try to do a full registration, it tells me “Invalid MAC”.Of course, I did do a full host registration with our production FOG server (r3240) and it works fine.
By building and testing this, I’ve only further verified it’s something with the files…
I was really hoping it would work… thus leading me to find what I screwed up on the production server… but no luck
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[quote=“Wayne Workman, post: 45463, member: 28155”]Just sits at “iPXE initialising devices…”[/quote]
Any DEBUG output you see before this???
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[quote=“Uncle Frank, post: 45480, member: 28116”]Any DEBUG output you see before this???[/quote]
None at all. It gets IP configuration from DHCP, shows that very briefly, and then sits at the “iPXE initializing devices…”
I’m going to do some surfing tonight for other bootfiles for UEFI.
Would any work? They need to be 64 bit, probably? As I understand it, the boot file simply places drivers to get the network interface working right (and maybe other stuff?) and then calls a kernel to begin execution?
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How can I add the Linux drivers into ipxe.efi that are listed here: [url]http://www.realtek.com.tw/Downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=13&PFid=5&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false[/url]
??
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Unfortunately you can’t.
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Well this blows…
I don’t know what to do.
I was attempting this endeavor simply so I could work on DHCP classes for Server 2012…
I suppose I need to find a device that actually works with ipxe.efi to do this. -
r3255 - still same problem.
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I guess I’d need to get my hands on this myself. It just takes too long back and forth debugging this. I’ll see what EFI devices we have at work and will give it a go!
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[quote=“Joseph Hales, post: 45714, member: 18131”]All working systems UEFI disabled single partition realizable.
Fog 1.3.0 SVN 3263 all systems using the base NIC on the motherboard, and default kernel.
[B]Dell Optiplex 7010[/B]
[/quote]Maybe Mr. Hales could give it a shot, too?
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I was under the impression that to run UEFI as netboot I would need my dhcp server to be server 2013 or higher which I don’t have in my current environment.
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Nah.
Just change your boot file to ipxe.efi or snp.efi or snponly.efi
