Dell 7010 Lenovo L530 with UEFI enabled, won't network boot.

[Sebastian Roth]

[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…

[Wayne Workman]

[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…

[Wayne Workman]

For the Dell Optiplex 7010,
I built intel.efi using this command:
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I changed option 067 on the DHCP server to intel.efi

Booted 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]

[Wayne Workman]

Just built realtek.efi
The Lenovo L530 does the same thing with realtek.efi

Just sits at “iPXE initialising devices…”

[Wayne Workman]

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.

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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.

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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

[Sebastian Roth]

[quote=“Wayne Workman, post: 45463, member: 28155”]Just sits at “iPXE initialising devices…”[/quote]

Any DEBUG output you see before this???

[Wayne Workman]

[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?

[Wayne Workman]

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]

??

[Tom Elliott]

Unfortunately you can’t.

[Wayne Workman]

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.

[Wayne Workman]

r3255 - still same problem.

[Sebastian Roth]

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!

[Wayne Workman]

[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]
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Maybe Mr. Hales could give it a shot, too?
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[Joseph Hales]

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.

[Wayne Workman]

Nah.

Just change your boot file to ipxe.efi or snp.efi or snponly.efi

[Joseph Hales]

If I can find one not in production I will give it a shot on my test network.

[Wayne Workman]

Just bumping this thread with an update about the OP, I just tried the L530 in UEFI network booting mode with svn 4323 cloud 5293 and no luck. I do know I have ISC-DHCP configured correctly, the correct filename ipxe.efi is handed out, and the last time I checked the file transfer did happen.

I’ll try to UEFI network boot a Optiplex 7010 tomorrow and see what happens… fingers crossed.

[Psycholiquid]

I have OP 7010s here also I’ll try and see what I get and update.

[Wayne Workman]

I just got done trying the Dell 7010 with intel.efi ipxe.efi realtek.efi snp.efi and snponly.efi… no luck.

[Sebastian Roth]

no luck??? Could you please be a bit more specific. See any errors? Just reboots or hangs? Screenshot?