Asus B660 M-C
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Hi fog community
We are unable to PXE boot to fog on an Asus B660 m-c motherboard.
We are running 2pxe files - namely, the snponly and undionly - these files are linked to flags on the network - the flag system works perfectly.
The machine BIOS has been updated and is set to network boot.
It seems like the drivers for the B660 are not included in the efi file set.
Is there any way to get the boot files loaded and to get the machine to PXE boot?
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@sonic136 All I can say is that we’ve seen early versions of uefi bios have poor snp uefi drivers. But if this mobo was created in the last 5-6 years it shouldn’t have an issue with snp because uefi firmware has matured quite a bit. Strange, but we’ve seen it happen on certain models.
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@george1421 We have assigned a new flag and applied the ipxe.efi file to the flag. Seems like it has worked.
Thank you @george1421
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@sonic136 OK so exactly where does it fail to boot? Could you provide a clear picture of where is stops in the process?
Also try to use ipxe.efi instead of snponly.efi to see if that gives you a better/different result.
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@sonic136 said in Asus B660 M-C:
still not able to successfully PXE
Probably best you take a picture of where exactly it hangs/fails and post that here.
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yes, the BIOS is set to use UEFI mode only, and the NIC is set to first boot in the priority. We have complied the lastest build and still not able to successfully PXE
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@sonic136 said in Asus B660 M-C:
It seems like the drivers for the B660 are not included in the efi file set.
Just to be clear the B660 is configured for UEFI mode (you made referenced to BIOS in the previous sentence)?
The snp.efi and snponly.efi only has one driver in it, the snp driver. The snp driver interfaces with the driver built into the nic adapter. So unless the mobo is from an early uefi generation, snp should just work. The alternate is the ipxe.efi boot loader. That boot loader is similar to linux in that it has all of the known network drivers built into the boot kernel. If the snp drivers don’t work, then see if the ipxe.efi boot loader works.
The last bit, that I don’t think will help if you are using the undionly and snponly drivers is to recompile ipxe to the latest version to get the latest hardware support: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/15826/updating-compiling-the-latest-version-of-ipxe
Also as long as you are updating stuff with FOG, make sure you are running the latest FOS Linux kernel 5.15.x series. That will get you support for the latest hardware beyond PXE boot environment.
One final word about snp and snponly boot loaders. The snponly will only communicate over the network card to where the device was pxe booted from, where snp will communicate over any network adapter. This is only important if you have more than 1 network adapter in your computer.
