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

[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?

[Wayne Workman]

@Sebastian-Roth It just hangs at initialising devices.

[Sebastian Roth]

@Wayne-Workman Please give this binary a try: ipxe.efi

compiled with DEBUG=device,pci… please upload pictures for me to see where it hangs.

[Wayne Workman]

@Sebastian-Roth It hangs here.

[Sebastian Roth]

great! so this is the next step: ipxe.efi

compiled with: DEBUG=device,efi_bofm,efi_debug,efi_driver,efi_init,efi_pci,efi_pxe,efi_snp

[Wayne Workman]

@Sebastian-Roth Here is a link to a video and two pictures as well.
https://youtu.be/xS_XJk8EXDg
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2BmriqzYEgXWFBKVGpwWE43ZVE

It appears that the same errors repeat continually for about 3 to 4 minutes until the machine just reboots.

[Sebastian Roth]

Thanks for the video and pictures!! And here we go for the next round ipxe.efi (DEBUG=device,efi_debug,efi_driver,efi_init,efi_pci,efi_snp,snp,nii:4,snponly,snpnet)

By the way. Have you tried realtek.efi yet???

[Sebastian Roth]

Here is a realtek binary with debug enabled (DEBUG=realtek). Would be great to see what happens with this. Hopefully this could also shed a light on why ipxe.efi is not choosing the native driver… Give it a try and let me know. realtek.efi

[Wayne Workman]

@Sebastian-Roth I was busy most of the day today. I’ll try these tomorrow morning at work. I really appreciate your help, Sebastian. All of us here do.

[Wayne Workman]

@Sebastian-Roth Here is the output requested using the two files.
https://drive.google.com/folder/d/0B2BmriqzYEgXbjFVdXhPbjhkY1k/edit

They have filenames that include the file that was being tested.

[Sebastian Roth]

Thanks again for pics and videos! To me this looks like realtek.efi is working on your machine. There is only a minor issue (typo) that @Tom-Elliott can fix soon I guess. (end of second line: gotosetserv should be goto setserv). But to me this really looks as if it is loading and initializing the devices properly. Or try the relatek binary I uploaded. It’ll only get you to a shell but we would see debug output as well. If you get to the shell just try dhcp && echo YES to see if it can properly request an IP.

Could you please give this binary another try: 0_1447365739406_ipxe.efi (DEBUG=snp,snponly,snpnet,netdevice) I am pretty sure that we are failing here: http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/blob/master:/src/net/netdevice.c#l666 (just want to be absolutely sure)

Anyone got an idea why iPXE could be failing with “Reject network devices that are already available via a different hardware device.”? Does that mean that this card was already used by a native driver? But that doesn’t make sense to me. Or another NIC having the same MAC address? No?!

[Wayne Workman]

@Sebastian-Roth said:

try the relatek binary I uploaded.

I did, the output of the one video labled realtek.efi.mp4 is for the file you posted. Was it supposed to do other stuff?

Could you please give this binary another try: 0_1447365739406_ipxe.efi

I can and will, I want to get this working for my site and for documentational / educational purposes for the FOG Project in general.