On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Michael Brown <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Sunday 02 Sep 2012 19:26:32 Michael wrote: > > I have a few boxes that I net boot using gpxe including one box with a > > realtek card. Under Linux, it shows up as: > > > > 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. > RTL8111/8168B > > PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03) > > > > Using gpxe 1.0.1, it would fail to boot with the message “initialising > > devices…". This is also reflected in the etherboot wiki: > > http://etherboot.org/wiki/hardwareissues. However, I used the > rom-o-matic > > to build a 1.0.1+ version of undionly and it has worked well on this > > motherboard for at least a year. I assumed the issue was resolved. > > > > So today, when I upgraded to iPXE, I was a little surprised to see this > > error message return. Does anyone have any suggestions why it would work > > in gpxe 1.0.1+, but not with a current version of ipxe? > > > > What is the best way to debug this? > > You can try > > http://ipxe.org/howto/bisect > > to track down the commit which caused the regression, assuming that you can > identify an old commit which works. > > I'm assuming that you're using undionly.kpxe. You could try using the > native > driver for Realtek cards instead: build "ipxe.pxe" instead of > "undionly.kpxe". > I gave the ipxe.pxe image a try and it is working fine. I even tried it in combination with iscsi from my other thread and that is working too. You are on fire today! Thanks again, Michael
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