@Tom-Elliott Interesting find but I think this is not the case here. The screen stayed mostly blank even when Matthieu typed all the kernel parameters by hand (loglevel=7!). The kernel on his HP tablet freezes very early and we were able to get some output by adding statements to the kernel code. If you have 10 minutes read through the last 30 posts to see what we are up to.

Did you update to the very latest version? Tom Elliott has found something which might fix this issue. Please upgrade and let us know.

Michael from the iPXE team asked if I could add some statements to print memory addresses. So I did. Please try booting bzImage_ad via iPXE and from USB stick and take a picture of both. Will be interesting to see if addresses are different. And hopefully Michael can interpret those numbers.

Fine then, waiting for some answers. Keeping my fingers crossed. Here if you want to follow:

http://forum.ipxe.org/showthread.php?tid=7938
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.efi/7361

@Jean-Jacques-Morda Why do you have more than one DHCP server in your network? And why do they offer different information (next-server/option 66) to the clients. This is not strange but kind of expected and it just does not make any sense to me why you would want to have this.

I’d suggest this config:

auto em1
iface em1 inet manual
  bond-master bond0
  bond-primary em1

auto p255p1
iface p255p1 inet manual
  bond-master bond0

auto bond0
iface bond0 inet static
  bond-slaves em1 p255p1
  bond-mode 2
  bond-miimon 100
  ...

Is this with “option subnet-mask”?? Looks ok from the logs I reckon:

Feb  4 15:30:18 Phoenix dhcpd: Listening on LPF/em2/f8:bc:12:3b:48:3d/192.168.1.0/24
Feb  4 15:30:18 Phoenix dhcpd: Sending on   LPF/em2/f8:bc:12:3b:48:3d/192.168.1.0/24

And why bond-primary em1 eth1?? You don’t have eth1 as ifconfig shows.

@Matthieu-Jacquart Just had the idea to try older kernels as well. Would you mind? Just download some older versions and put it on USB as done before. Lets see if any of these works. I doubt it - but it’s valuable information for the kernel devs!

http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeghost/files/KernelList/Kernel.TomElliott.4.1.2.64/download
http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeghost/files/KernelList/Kernel.TomElliott.3.19.3.64/download
http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeghost/files/KernelList/Kernel.TomElliott.3.17.4.64/download

@Matthieu-Jacquart Thanks a lot for your fast reaction. I somehow thought/hoped this wouldn’t be the case and that it had something to do with iPXE. But from what we see now current main kernel is not able to directly EFI boot on your tablet. I really wonder why we don’t find other people having the same issue. Maybe this is still very new and most people use GRUB (bypassing the kernels efi_init)?!? I am trying to get in contact with kernel devs on this. But I cannot promise anything. Might take some hours but could be weeks as well. I just don’t know. But I am sure we are spot on the issue (which is the main factor for getting it fixed).