Re: [ipxe-devel] Diskless Cilent Centos via iSCSI

2021-02-15 Thread brent s.
On 2/15/21 14:27, Michael Brown wrote: > Thanks. > > For a Red Hat installation, I can tell the initrd where to find the rest > of the installer by adding e.g. > >   inst.repo=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8/BaseOS/x86_64/os > > to the kernel command line. > > Is there a direct equivalent

Re: [ipxe-devel] Diskless Cilent Centos via iSCSI

2021-02-15 Thread brent s.
On 2/12/21 11:43, Oliver Rath wrote: > Ist there something appropriate for Debian/Ubuntu? For e.g. Focal release of Ubuntu, you would use this URL base (make sure the initramfs and kernel filenames are the same, I didn't check):

Re: [ipxe-devel] Non-embedded IP Configuration

2019-02-01 Thread brent s.
On 2/1/19 6:57 PM, brent s. wrote: >> > > what about IPv6 SLAAC? you could have an IPv6 ULA[] SLAAC that's only > used for iPXE bootstrapping. that'd probably be the easiest way, i'd > wager. just pick a ULA prefix and off you go. throw your provision boxes > on the same pref

Re: [ipxe-devel] Non-embedded IP Configuration

2019-02-01 Thread brent s.
On 2/1/19 6:23 PM, Matthew Walster wrote: > I have a scenario where iPXE would be perfect for loading / upgrading > the operating system on remotely deployed hardware, but I've come across > a hurdle regarding the lack of DHCP at the remote site, and I was > wondering if anyone else has solved

Re: [ipxe-devel] Several build errors

2018-03-10 Thread brent s.
On 12/04/2017 07:40 PM, Michael Brown wrote: > On 21/11/17 03:29, brent s. wrote: >> for wimboot, there's a fairly large amount of these: >> >> main.i386.s:470: Error: 8-byte relocation cannot be applied to 4-byte >> field >> make: *** [Makefile:127: main.i38

Re: [ipxe-devel] Trouble with KVM/QEMU/VirtIO VMs

2018-02-24 Thread brent s.
On 02/24/2018 02:01 AM, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 08:21:51PM -0500, Philip Gardner, Jr. wrote: >> Hi all - >> >> I have attempted to follow the instructions on making a custom image for >> chainloading iPXE. However, when my VM downloads the image and loads it, it >> has no

Re: [ipxe-devel] make giving segfault

2018-01-02 Thread brent s.
On 01/02/2018 03:41 PM, Michael Brown wrote: > On 04/10/17 08:41, Christian Hesse wrote: >> "brent s." <b...@square-r00t.net> on Mon, 2017/10/02 13:23: >>> Thanks, Michael. It seems to be the linking throwing the segfault >>> (reformatted for re

Re: [ipxe-devel] Cannot build wimboot

2017-12-26 Thread brent s.
On 12/26/2017 12:29 PM, Michael Brown wrote: > On 26/12/17 17:12, brent s. wrote: >>> hrm.. no, i didn't, at least not intentionally, and on the same version >>> of binutils... >>> >>> let me try it on a brand new install. will reply shortly. >> >&

Re: [ipxe-devel] Cannot build wimboot

2017-12-26 Thread brent s.
On 12/26/2017 11:08 AM, brent s. wrote: > On 12/26/2017 06:42 AM, Michael Brown wrote: > (SNIP) >> I am unable to reproduce your build problem using Arch >> 2017.12.12: >> >>   GCC 7.2.1 >>   Make 4.2.1 >>   Binutils 2.29.1.20171010 >> >>

Re: [ipxe-devel] Cannot build wimboot

2017-12-26 Thread brent s.
On 12/26/2017 06:42 AM, Michael Brown wrote: > On 26/12/17 07:59, brent s. wrote: >> I am unable to successfully build wimboot as found at >> https://git.ipxe.org/wimboot.git >> >> Build output is attached. >> >> Environment: >> >> Arch

[ipxe-devel] Cannot build wimboot

2017-12-25 Thread brent s.
Hello - I am unable to successfully build wimboot as found at https://git.ipxe.org/wimboot.git Build output is attached. Environment: Arch Linux GCC 7.2.0 GNU Make 4.2.1 glibc 2.26 Reproduction: 1.) git clone https://git.ipxe.org/wimboot.git 2.) cd wimboot/src 3.) make -- brent saner

Re: [ipxe-devel] Cannot build memtest NBP (git.ipxe.org/people/mcb30/memtest.git)

2017-12-25 Thread brent s.
On 12/26/2017 02:51 AM, brent s. wrote: > Build output is attached. > Apologies; that was in XZ. Plaintext/uncompressed attached. -- brent saner https://square-r00t.net/ GPG info: https://square-r00t.net/gpg-info gcc -fno-pie -E -traditional head.S -o head.s as -32 -o head.o head.s gc

[ipxe-devel] Cannot build memtest NBP (git.ipxe.org/people/mcb30/memtest.git)

2017-12-25 Thread brent s.
Hello - I am unable to successfully build the memtest NBP as found at git.ipxe.org/people/mcb30/memtest.git Build output is attached. Environment: Arch Linux GCC 7.2.0 GNU Make 4.2.1 glibc 2.26 Reproduction: 1.) git clone git://git.ipxe.org/people/mcb30/memtest.git 2.) cd memtest 3.) git

Re: [ipxe-devel] HTTPS error : http://ipxe.org/err/1c25e0

2017-12-22 Thread brent s.
On 12/22/2017 05:50 PM, Youkay akay wrote: > Hi  > > I enabled HTTPS by adding  #define DOWNLOAD_PROTO_HTTPS to > src/config/local/general.h > > But when i try to download the image , i get the below error.  > > *iPXE>boot https://[ipv6]/image_path* > *Could not start download: Invalid argument

[ipxe-devel] Several build errors

2017-11-20 Thread brent s.
hey, all- getting some build errors. using gcc 7.2.0 and make 4.2.1. for wimboot, there's a fairly large amount of these: main.i386.s:470: Error: 8-byte relocation cannot be applied to 4-byte field make: *** [Makefile:127: main.i386.x86_64.raw.o] Error 1 secondly, on the memtest86+ netboot

Re: [ipxe-devel] make giving segfault

2017-10-02 Thread brent s.
On 10/02/2017 11:06 AM, Michael Brown wrote: > On 01/10/17 17:02, brent s. wrote: >>>    [LD] bin/usbdisk.bin >>> make: *** [arch/x86/Makefile.pcbios:116: bin/usbdisk.bin] Segmentation >>> fault (core dumped) >>> make: *** Deleting file 'bin/usbdisk

Re: [ipxe-devel] make giving segfault

2017-10-01 Thread brent s.
On 10/01/2017 11:36 AM, brent s. wrote: > when attempting a make all, i'm getting various segfaults on gcc 7.x. > > i've tried from both current HEAD and from a known-good commit i've > built from in the past (8b104d881abbeb8f9592708a490c16916b0b1ecc) and a > bisect failed on eve

[ipxe-devel] make giving segfault

2017-10-01 Thread brent s.
when attempting a make all, i'm getting various segfaults on gcc 7.x. i've tried from both current HEAD and from a known-good commit i've built from in the past (8b104d881abbeb8f9592708a490c16916b0b1ecc) and a bisect failed on every commit (even 8b104d881abbeb8f9592708a490c16916b0b1ecc): ... ar:

Re: [ipxe-devel] [meta] Mailman?

2016-03-07 Thread brent s.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 03/07/2016 12:41 PM, Shao Miller wrote: > On 3/4/2016 10:18, brent s. wrote: >> Is the mailman mailer itself busted? > > I just requested and received a password-reminder request, so no, I > don't think so. I am no

[ipxe-devel] [meta] Mailman?

2016-03-04 Thread brent s.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Apologies for the off-topic and if this has been addressed already. Is the mailman mailer itself busted? I've tried to send password reminders, unsubscribe, and/or change my mailing preferences multiple times over the past couple weeks but I

[ipxe-devel] (U)EFI questions

2015-08-22 Thread brent s.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hey all- I had asked in IRC about PNG/Background image support in EFI builds. It seems it's currently not supported due to a currently needed fixed-width bitmap font definition. Is this correct? I was also wondering if it was possible to detect if

Re: [ipxe-devel] (U)EFI questions

2015-08-22 Thread brent s.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 08/22/2015 05:09 AM, Christian Nilsson wrote: Hi, Your best approach for linux is to have one kernel with efistub enabled - that way it will be both an normal kernel and an efi binary at the same time. other then that you have the platform