Lenovo E15 Gen2 won't PXE boot (bzImage)
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@x23piracy Here is 5.6.18RT3 which has the updated realtek drivers in them. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O-4tvx4DywWef75qfSxLRK9M6CoDS9pd/view?usp=sharing See how well these work with that nic.
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@george1421 thanks, i will report tomorrow, i am in the home office and my collegue already left the office. Thanks so far iβll report. Realtek? Wasnβt it Realcrap?
Best Regards X23
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@george1421 said in Lenovo E15 Gen2 won't PXE boot (bzImage):
@x23piracy Here is 5.6.18RT3 which has the updated realtek drivers in them. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O-4tvx4DywWef75qfSxLRK9M6CoDS9pd/view?usp=sharing See how well these work with that nic.
Good morning George, unfortenately the error sticks, the kernel you provided doesnβt make the device able to pxe boot, same error. Is there another kernel i can try? Is hasusbnic=1 an option? I just ask maybe this crazy thing is internally tight to usb (would be strange).
Best Regards X23
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@x23piracy said in Lenovo E15 Gen2 won't PXE boot (bzImage):
we have a couple of that new Lenovo E15 Gen2 and it seems to that both kernels 4.19.143 and 5.6.18 wonβt boot that device.
Are we sure the kernel is at fault here? Can you provide a picture of the boot failure on screen so we know where exactly things go wrong?!
Secure boot disabled?
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@x23piracy said in Lenovo E15 Gen2 won't PXE boot (bzImage):
the kernel you provided doesnβt make the device able to pxe boot
I agree with Sebastian, having a picture would set the context of the error. I can read the above two different ways. If you canβt get to the fog iPXE that is one thing, if you canβt register the target computer that is something else.
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Secure Boot is disabled else you wonβt get to this point (picture) am i wrong?
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@x23piracy OK this has nothing to do with the FOS Linux kernel since you are not that far in the process. The issue is with iPXE.
Instead of using ipxe.efi try snponly.efi to boot. The snponly uses the build in uefi network driver in the nic adapter instead of using the standard network driver built into ipxe.efi. snp is kind of akin to the ndis/undi interface in bios.
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@george1421 Iβll try and report.
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@george1421 can i temporary use snponly.efi for this specific host instead of change it for all? but how to, i think i need to specify a filter in dhcp for this specific device?
For the first test i can change for all temporary but later on if that works i need to integrate this.
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@x23piracy Well I think I would test first then worry later. If she no work, then no worries.
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@x23piracy said in Lenovo E15 Gen2 won't PXE boot (bzImage):
use snponly.efi for this specific host instead of change it for all?
Yes there are ways but this depends on the DHCP server you use. For Linux DHCP (isc-dhcp) used by FOG if enabled by the installed you should be able to use host definitions to force
snponly.efi
for specific MAC addresses:host lenovoe15gen2_1 { hardware ethernet aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff; filename "snponly.efi"; }
While I am not sure I would think you can do the same thing with Windows DHCP server using policies.
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@george1421 @sebastian-roth said in Lenovo E15 Gen2 won't PXE boot (bzImage):
snponly.efi
Hi,
i tried it but anyway same error like before.
Best Regards X23
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@x23piracy It seems that we have a number of issues lately with network adapters and booting into FOS Linux.
Is the fog server on the same subnet as the pxe booting computer? Iβd like to see a pcap of the pxe booting process with this device.
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@george1421 said in Lenovo E15 Gen2 won't PXE boot (bzImage):
booting into FOS Linux
Well but this device doesnβt even seem to make it through iPXE which all the others do.
@x23piracy You can try older versions of the iPXE binaries to see if any of those work. Though I donβt think youβll have much luck with that.
https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject/tree/1.5.8/packages/tftp
https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject/tree/1.5.7/packages/tftp
https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject/tree/1.5.6/packages/tftp
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@sebastian-roth said in Lenovo E15 Gen2 won't PXE boot (bzImage):
booting into FOS Linux
You must have caught my post just after I posted it. After I hit the submit button I realized that the target computer didnβt ipxe boot directly so I changed my story. I think still getting the PCAP is what we need to see if its actually sending out the dhcp discovery bits.
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@george1421 we have a supernet at work 172.19.100.0/22 (100.0/24, 101.0/24, 102.0/24 & 103.024) the two fog servers are reachable under the following ip addresses (172.19.102.17 (fog), 172.19.102.18 (fog-image) storage node. All other clients do well with current ipxe.efi (fog 1.5.0).
when i change back from snponly.efi to ipxe.efi all my other devices work well as before.
When i deploy the E15 devices with their dock it works fine, the dock nic seems to be propperly detected, the bad thing is if the device goes into windows it doesnt know the docks nic driver the first time but the internal nic is working, so we put the network cable after deployment into internal nic so fog client can do his job (rename, ad-join etc.) another solution (workaround) would be to deploy the device with both nics connected to the network.
Best Regards X23
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@x23piracy Do you have a usb boot stick into FOS Linux? This would bypass the ipxe.efi boot loader completely. When booting via USB, does fos linux work correctly for imaging? What is the hardware id that it sees with
lspci -nn | grep -i net
?Does this lenovo e15 have the latest firmware installed?
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@x23piracy said in Lenovo E15 Gen2 won't PXE boot (bzImage):
All other clients do well with current ipxe.efi (fog 1.5.0).
You are still on FOG 1.5.0? Ok, then you can really try out the latest iPXE binaries manually and see if it works. Download
ipxe.efi
from https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject/tree/1.5.9/packages/tftp, rename the original you have in/tftpboot/
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@sebastian-roth yes i am still on 1.5.0, i tried to update to the latest but update repository problems kicked my ass.
Best Regards X23
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@george1421 hi george i am currently not on site (home office) i can try this when i am back in the office.
Best Regards X23