ipxe booting "waiting for the link to come up"

[kvothe88]

@george1421 said in ipxe booting "waiting for the link to come up":

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Hi Gorge, and @sebastian-roth

thanks for your reply. I tried all 4.19.x kernels and never worked. Also tried 5.6.x kernel and never worked neither, but…i gave a last shoot to 4.18.11 kernel and BOOOOM! It worked!!

So my question now is…is it possible to download this kernel and make ir usable just for this laptop? and use the newest kernels on the rest of computers¿

Thanks for everything!

[Sebastian Roth]

@kvothe88 said in ipxe booting "waiting for the link to come up":

So my question now is…is it possible to download this kernel and make ir usable just for this laptop? and use the newest kernels on the rest of computers¿

Great you found a kernel that works. Sure you can! Install the kernel you want to use for all your systems. Then manually download the old kernel from our website and put that into /var/www/html/fog/serive/ipxe/ directory on your FOG server. Just keep the name Kernel.TomElliott.4.18.11.64 as downloaded. Not exactly sure if this needs a 64 bit or 32 bit kernel. Do you remember if it loaded bzImage (64 bit) or bzImage32 (32 bit) when PXE booting into a task?

Now edit the host settings of your Toshiba device and set option Host Kernel to Kernel.TomElliott.4.18.11.64 (or …32). When you boot the device up into a task you should clearly see it loading that kernel binary instead of the default bzImage(32).

[kvothe88]

@sebastian-roth Well, ive done it already!

Thanks both of you for your help! I could never been able to figure it out without you! Thanks!