HP Z8 iPXE Hangs after starting (after BIOS update)
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Curious one here,
Seems that a potential BIOS update breaks iPXE from loading beyond initialising net0.
The machines are Z8 running BIOS 2.85-2.90 and have dual NICs on them. I had managed to register one of the machines onto fog, but after a BIOS update it refuses to go beyond this point.
I’ve updated the iPXE binaries (from g47159 to gc1834). I’ve included shots where it gets to before seeming to halt.
Annoyingly my colleague won’t let me at the DHCP server, I did ask him to change to snponly.efi - but this wouldn’t even load.
Any ideas people might have would be greatly appreciated, is there a way to update the iPXE version if there is a newer?
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@engineerfranko I would start by updating iPXE. You didn’t mention the version of FOG you are using, but its still a good idea to update it if you have really new hardware.
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Hi George,
Yes I updated this (sorry I called them binaries). Running the latest FogServer build from git.
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We can close this off for now, having spoken to HP they are now aware of ipxe not working. However on our end we changed to load snponly.efi and this allows it to boot using the newer BIOS.
