[ipxe-devel] [Etherboot-discuss] SRP timeout

2010-07-24 Thread Michael Brown
On Saturday 24 Jul 2010 12:01:31 Itay Gazit wrote: Michael, I suspect something earlier went wrong before posting the WQE. Can you verify the all MAP_FA process suceed. MAP_FA is definitely succeeding; a MAP_FA failure would be treated as a fatal error during initialisation. Michael

[ipxe-devel] Incorrect next-server (QIP + Microsoft RIS/WDS)

2010-07-26 Thread Michael Brown
On Sunday 25 Jul 2010 20:21:27 Tim Wright wrote: Our IP Services team set the default next-server to 0.0.0.0 and these boxes have started working perfectly. Excellent! Glad it works for you now. Just wanted to say thanks a lot for all your help. We've been playing with booting gPXE for a

[ipxe-devel] [gPXE-devel] [PATCH 1/4] [io] Move get_memmap() to the I/O API group

2010-08-17 Thread Michael Brown
(CC to gpxe-devel stripped due to list censorship by Marty Connor) On Tuesday 17 Aug 2010 01:24:22 Piotr Jaroszy?ski wrote: I appreciate your comments, in fact moving the b44 to driver arch/i386 sounds like a good option to me, but I would like to get Michael's opinion on that as he suggested

[ipxe-devel] make everything and friends

2010-08-16 Thread Michael Brown
On Sunday 15 Aug 2010 22:29:10 Piotr Jaroszy?ski wrote: this patchset adds an 'everything' target that builds multiple targets on each supported arch/platform. Comes in handy when testing patches. Also allows building all-drivers builds on platforms other than pcbios and fixes a race in the

[ipxe-devel] make bin-x86_64-efi/ipxe.efi

2010-10-14 Thread Michael Brown
On Thursday 14 Oct 2010 21:19:16 Duane Voth wrote: Which binutils version is required? I've got bfd-2.20.51 and I'm having problems: ... [AR] bin-x86_64-efi/blib.a ar: creating bin-x86_64-efi/blib.a [HOSTCC] util/elf2efi64 /usr/lib64/libbfd.a(plugin.o): In function `try_load_plugin':

[ipxe-devel] [iPXE] SANBOOT failed Input/Output Error

2010-10-28 Thread Michael Brown
On Thursday 28 Oct 2010 08:41:39 Johnny Stenback wrote: iscsi:10.0.0.1:::1:iqn.2010-10.com.direcpc.shire:gandalf.bud-pc Yup, that was next on my list of things to test, but I had lost my reference to in between which ':'s that number should go :). And yes, adding that '1' there is

[ipxe-devel] Fwd: [gPXE-devel] [PATCH]: dhcp: Don't ignore duplicate offers when the dups differ by PXE options presence

2010-11-03 Thread Michael Brown
On Wednesday 03 Nov 2010 17:26:35 Joshua Oreman wrote: This may be a better way of fixing the regression that was previously fixed by reverting the DHCP changes in question. Could you explain to me what the benefit is of the gather-multiple offers approach? Part of the reason why I chose to

[ipxe-devel] [gPXE] Cramming two drivers into one ROM?

2010-11-06 Thread Michael Brown
On Saturday 06 Nov 2010 01:06:36 Huan Truong wrote: I wonder if I can cram both the driver for the 3com card and the driver for the Gigabit LOM (tg3) into one ROM file. This would make the 3com cards self-hosting (if no compatible LOM is found). Anyone has done that -- if that's at all

[ipxe-devel] [PATCH] [infiniband, netdevice] Fix typographical error from previous commit

2010-11-11 Thread Michael Brown
On Tuesday 09 Nov 2010 02:31:55 Miller, Shao wrote: https://git.ipxe.org/people/sha0/ipxe/.git/commitdiff/229929535363804bcf aeef6f004c99263d705a3a Cherry-picked; thanks for spotting and fixing this! Michael

[ipxe-devel] nomenclature to use...

2010-11-11 Thread Michael Brown
On Monday 08 Nov 2010 17:37:08 carlyoung at keycomm.co.uk wrote: Sorry for the extremely newbie question, but when posting to this site are iPXE and gPXE interchangeable as regards the PXE extensions or are the two projects diverged now. The projects are diverged. Please use iPXE for all

[ipxe-devel] gPXE 1.0.1 Boot Server Discovery behaviour

2010-11-11 Thread Michael Brown
On Wednesday 10 Nov 2010 17:19:11 carlyoung at keycomm.co.uk wrote: I have a question about the standard behaviour of gPXE 1.0.1 and iPXE. (The tests I did were using VMware E1000 based boot-rom) the PXE 2.1 spec states [in para. 2.4.4] that the client should provide option 71

[ipxe-devel] gPXE 1.0.1 Boot Server Discovery behaviour

2010-11-11 Thread Michael Brown
On Thursday 11 Nov 2010 17:24:29 carlyoung at keycomm.co.uk wrote: I disabled the VMware E1000 gPXE BIOS and booted from ipxe.iso and the boot sequence (from 1.0.1+ GIT obtained source) does go into autoboot OK with appropriate boot server type specified in the DHCP discover frame. OK,

[ipxe-devel] iPXE with VirtualBox

2010-11-11 Thread Michael Brown
On Thursday 11 Nov 2010 16:37:08 Pete I. Eby wrote: Is there a way to get iPXE working in VirtualBox? It is so handy to be able to use VirtualBox to test with, it would be great if this could work again. I'm aware of a problem with VirtualBox, but I haven't yet had time to identify the cause.

[ipxe-devel] Implicit SAN+PXE?

2010-11-11 Thread Michael Brown
On Thursday 11 Nov 2010 22:27:03 jarrod.b.johnson at gmail.com wrote: I do, will post tomorrow for review. nbsp;It is conservative and may be better done through refactoring boot_root_path in half... One objection I could see. nbsp;IIRC, freebsd is a case where the pxe payload will

Re: [ipxe-devel] [gPXE-devel] [gPXE] Help with use-cached

2010-12-02 Thread Michael Brown
On Thursday 02 Dec 2010 17:13:24 Rob Shelley wrote: So this morning I downloaded the 1.0.0 kkpxe image, and it works. So it appears there is a bug in the 1.0.1 release. I cross-posted this to the devel list because I don't know where bugs should be submitted. Could you possibly try using

Re: [ipxe-devel] Using ipxe to only retrieve boot loader and OS image and not install

2010-12-08 Thread Michael Brown
On Wednesday 08 Dec 2010 17:50:47 Vinay Venkataraghavan wrote: Thank you so much for your response. I will definitely give this a shot. Just also want to take this opportunity to applaud on the fantastic job that you have in implementing so many modules for both gPXE and iPXE and making it

Re: [ipxe-devel] iPXE with Virtualbox

2011-01-26 Thread Michael Brown
On Monday 24 Jan 2011 12:45:18 Michael Brown wrote: Thanks for tracking this down, Matthew. It's annoying that flat real mode seems to cause problems in some hypervisors, even though it works on real hardware. I can't just revert this change, since some later commits (e.g. [romprefix] Add

Re: [ipxe-devel] Misc iPXE patches

2011-01-27 Thread Michael Brown
On Monday 17 Jan 2011 14:23:21 Jarrod Johnson wrote: It would probably be useful to be able to expand the root-path in the same way. I'll wrap this up into my reworking of your SAN+PXE patch. Wondering if you ever got around to working with the SAN on PXE and variables in

Re: [ipxe-devel] arbel sanboot ib_srp - Error: Not enough space

2011-02-03 Thread Michael Brown
On Thursday 03 Feb 2011 21:52:39 Lee Staples wrote: I'm trying to sanboot using ib_srp on mellanox III Ex and have used all the default setting to make a 15b36282.rom However, when the system going to boot it gives the error message. Error: Not enough space

Re: [ipxe-devel] [Etherboot-discuss] Need help with San boot - Windows XP boot stuck at Logo

2011-02-03 Thread Michael Brown
On Friday 04 Feb 2011 01:04:55 Mahboob AliKhan wrote: So, As Michael suggested, I used the new sanboot.conf and also installed NIC drivers. My Desktop has an in build NIC card (Broadcom 57XX Gigabit Integrated Controller) and an extra NIC card hooked on (Intel PRO 1000). So I installed both

Re: [ipxe-devel] Connection reset (0f0a6039)

2011-02-05 Thread Michael Brown
On Friday 04 Feb 2011 22:08:22 Lee Bradshaw wrote: So I bit the bullet and created a Unix machine and built the latest gPXE from source; an interesting new experience for me. This version has the same problem as the current iPXE: Could not open SAN device: connection reset

Re: [ipxe-devel] Difference between chainloading and booting from disk

2011-02-08 Thread Michael Brown
On Tuesday 08 Feb 2011 16:30:01 Thiago Arruda Padilha wrote: I'm trying to chainload iPXE from a network card that has a legacy intel PXE, however when iPXE is loaded( undionly.kpxe ), it prints a few messages about !PXE and then stops printing : No more network devices and I have to

Re: [ipxe-devel] Curious routing problem with iPXE

2011-02-09 Thread Michael Brown
On Wednesday 09 Feb 2011 23:25:18 Lee Bradshaw wrote: I've now set up a native Windows iSCSI server and am booting from it. All is working fine, except that the routing to the server is odd. My PC is .244; the server is .2. When I list the routing table I get: IPv4 Route Table

Re: [ipxe-devel] iPXE hang on reboot after linux running in KVM?

2011-02-11 Thread Michael Brown
On Friday 11 Feb 2011 15:35:10 Jarrod Johnson wrote: Running RHEL6 as KVM HOST and replaced the e1000 rom with iPXE. iPXE runs fine on first VM boot, but if I let the VM boot into RHEL6 guest and then reboot from RHEL, iPXE hangs with 'PMM+3FFCAD20' as the last thing printed. (usually has

Re: [ipxe-devel] ipxe hanging after Loading ipxe.krn....ready...

2011-02-11 Thread Michael Brown
On Friday 11 Feb 2011 15:43:38 Michael wrote: I'm really happy I found the ipxe project, it suits my needs exactly! I'm having a bit of a problem though. The machine I'm trying to boot an image I built from source gets stuck on Loading ipxe.krndone. It will display up to that point and

Re: [ipxe-devel] arbel sanboot ib_srp - Error: Not enough space

2011-02-11 Thread Michael Brown
On Saturday 12 Feb 2011 00:26:30 Lee Staples wrote: Have finally managed to get a working null modem cable, so would be grateful if some one could take a look and advise what my unexcepted response means. IBSRP 0x20ce4 for fe80::0005ad00:00040965 0005ad00:00040964 CMRC 0x20d24

Re: [ipxe-devel] Input/Output error (1d0d6039)

2011-02-23 Thread Michael Brown
On Wednesday 23 Feb 2011 08:35:36 Lee Bradshaw wrote: Today I received a QNAP server and configured it for iSCSI. Unfortunately iPXE will not connect to the target. I get input/output error 1d0d6039. I've attached a trace. Thanks. Your trace shows that the target is returning status 0301

Re: [ipxe-devel] Input/Output error (1d0d6039)

2011-02-23 Thread Michael Brown
On Wednesday 23 Feb 2011 23:41:50 Lee Bradshaw wrote: I've rebuilt and now the recent build is working, although I still get the same error. Really? The exact same error number? That shouldn't be happening; there should be a one-character difference in the error number. Can you confirm/deny

Re: [ipxe-devel] Coreboot+Seabios with PMM + iPXE hangs

2011-02-23 Thread Michael Brown
On Monday 14 Feb 2011 15:17:25 Jarrod Johnson wrote: I will say the PMM stuff seems to hang with latest 'release' seabios on qemu all the time, and after reboot from linux with 0.5.1 seabios. I am unable to reproduce this. Latest qemu git with latest seabios git works perfectly for me. I

Re: [ipxe-devel] ipxelinux.0

2011-02-26 Thread Michael Brown
On Saturday 26 Feb 2011 10:08:13 Martin Zwerschke wrote: I used gpxelinux.0 before, to be able to net boot a mixed environment of PXE and gPXE -clients from a http-sever. As far as I understood, breaking an infinite boot-chain could succeed this way even without a proxy-user-class, cause

[ipxe-devel] ipxe.org scheduled maintenance

2011-02-26 Thread Michael Brown
ipxe.org (and all facilities hosted on ipxe.org, including the web site, the git repositories, and the mailing lists) will be offline for a while starting at 1700GMT today. The rack hosting the physical machine is being rearranged for improved airflow. Sorry for any disruption. Michael

[ipxe-devel] sanbootconf 0.9.10 released

2011-02-26 Thread Michael Brown
I have released sanbootconf 0.9.10. The major improvement in this release is that it displays parts of the SAN boot configuration on the boot splash screen, which gives the user some visibility into the potential causes of any boot failures. Screenshot is at

[ipxe-devel] Scripting

2011-02-27 Thread Michael Brown
I've started putting together some long-overdue documentation of the iPXE command line and scripting capabilities at http://ipxe.org/scripting The aim is to provide a manual page for each iPXE command (not yet complete), along with some overview documentation describing how scripting works.

Re: [ipxe-devel] iPXE with Virtualbox

2011-03-01 Thread Michael Brown
On Saturday 05 Feb 2011 22:41:15 Matthew Walster wrote: On 26 January 2011 23:39, Michael Brown mbr...@fensystems.co.uk wrote: Tested in bochs, qemu and kvm, but would appreciate reports for other hypervisors (especially VirtualBox). I've tried Virtualbox 3.2.8, and I get the ISOLINUX 4.01

Re: [ipxe-devel] Need help with SAN boot Windows XP.

2011-03-01 Thread Michael Brown
On Tuesday 01 Mar 2011 17:01:20 jerrycheng-hinet wrote: After updating the latest iPXE, I did get the error message showed Nothing to boot: No such file or directory (http://ipxe.org/2d03e13b). I follow the hints to use the iPXE command line to perform DHCP manually. I found iPXE always got

Re: [ipxe-devel] trouble booting CentOS from Netapp iSCSI LUN

2011-03-02 Thread Michael Brown
On Wednesday 02 Mar 2011 22:46:54 Scott Classen wrote: I've set the BIOS to boot from the onboard intel NIC, and I see teh regular PXE boot then it gets chainloded into iPXE and then I see this horribly non informative error. [clip] some iPXE boot messages and info about dhcp and net0

Re: [ipxe-devel] SAN Boot Windows XP with USB-NIC.

2011-03-02 Thread Michael Brown
On Wednesday 02 Mar 2011 18:40:58 jerrycheng-hinet wrote: Then I tried to use ipxe. But it seemed to hang even earlier at DHCP phase. The screen hanged at Connection time out (http://ipxe.org/4c106035). I used wireshark to capture the trace of both fail cases and attached it inside.

Re: [ipxe-devel] Create rom image with embedded script [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2011-03-02 Thread Michael Brown
On Wednesday 02 Mar 2011 23:48:17 Andrew Dwyer wrote: Michael Brown mbrown@... writes: HP BIOSes are known to do some strange things, such as using random unmarked areas of system memory to hold critical BIOS data structures. You could try the attached patch, which will convert iPXE

Re: [ipxe-devel] trouble booting CentOS from Netapp iSCSI LUN

2011-03-02 Thread Michael Brown
On Wednesday 02 Mar 2011 23:24:29 Scott Classen wrote: any ideas why it's trying to open some device at http://ipxe.org ??? It isn't. It's trying to direct _you_ to look at http://ipxe.org/2c0d603b , where you will find some hopefully helpful suggestions relating to the specific problem

Re: [ipxe-devel] trouble booting CentOS from Netapp iSCSI LUN

2011-03-03 Thread Michael Brown
On Thursday 03 Mar 2011 05:12:45 Scott Classen wrote: That is the current default, if no explicit initiator IQN is specified via either DHCP option 203 or the initiator-iqn setting. What is DHCP option 203? Can I add another line to my dhcpd.conf file to specify the iqn of my client?…

Re: [ipxe-devel] SAN Boot Windows XP with USB-NIC.

2011-03-03 Thread Michael Brown
On Thursday 03 Mar 2011 18:12:39 jerrycheng-hinet wrote: The patch works! I don't know how to express my gratitude to you! After applying your patch, I can see the consistent result with ipxe and gpxe. You're welcome. Unfortunately, we can't just apply this patch as-is, since it would

Re: [ipxe-devel] trouble booting CentOS from Netapp iSCSI LUN

2011-03-03 Thread Michael Brown
On Thursday 03 Mar 2011 01:58:44 Michael Brown wrote: I will have to change that default, since I don't own the etherboot.org namespace, and I can't trust the owner not to cause problems in future. This may cause pain for people who have already added the default IQN to ACLs. I'll try

Re: [ipxe-devel] trouble booting CentOS from Netapp iSCSI LUN

2011-03-04 Thread Michael Brown
On Friday 04 Mar 2011 06:09:46 Scott Classen wrote: Now it just works! yeah! That's what I like to hear. :) Michael ___ ipxe-devel mailing list ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo/ipxe-devel

Re: [ipxe-devel] iSCSI boot problem

2011-03-06 Thread Michael Brown
On Saturday 05 Mar 2011 21:49:56 Hsuan-Yeh Chang wrote: Matthew Walster matt...@walster.org wrote: Perhaps I'm being a little naïve, but wouldn't that try and boot from the local loopback - surely you need a valid hostname or IP, i.e.: iscsi:myhostnameiqn.2007-08.localhost:iscsiboot

Re: [ipxe-devel] [PATCH] make iPXE run the string from the bootloader

2011-03-07 Thread Michael Brown
On Thursday 27 Jan 2011 20:14:09 Dave Hansen wrote: If you are booting ipxe.lkrn, this _effectively_ lets you do is pass in a tiny script via the boot command-line. I use iPXE to compile kernels on one system and then boot them elsewhere. The reboot cycles are *SLOW*, and I like to speed

Re: [ipxe-devel] [Etherboot-discuss] Does the TARGET server need to be running a 64 bit OS if the initiator wants to run a 64 bit OS?

2011-03-07 Thread Michael Brown
On Tuesday 08 Mar 2011 00:07:22 Coffey, Erin wrote: I want the initiator to run Windows 7, 64 bit OS but, my Linux server where the OS is hosted is running 32 bit OS. I can get the OS to begin the start process but, it times out and restarts. I was able to read part of the bootmgr and it

Re: [ipxe-devel] LAN on motherboard

2011-03-08 Thread Michael Brown
On Tuesday 08 Mar 2011 16:23:49 Michael Cirineo wrote: I've been using ipxe pretty well on a boot CD, and I decided to take the next step and flash my rom. I followed the intel directions exactly, but when it comes time to run the final command from bootutil, I get the following error:

Re: [ipxe-devel] VMPlayer + iPXE + iSCSI Boot + Fedora 14

2011-03-09 Thread Michael Brown
On Wednesday 09 Mar 2011 21:42:41 Hsuan-Yeh Chang wrote: I've switched to vmplayer from virtualbox and got the attached screenshot. What I did: 1. Re-Install Fedora 14 to an iSCSI target, using a virtual machine. 2. Sanboot using vmplayer with iPXE. I'm slightly suspicious of the udev:

Re: [ipxe-devel] SAN Boot Windows XP with USB-NIC.

2011-03-10 Thread Michael Brown
On Thursday 10 Mar 2011 16:53:31 jerrycheng-hinet wrote: Could you build with DEBUG=undinet and tell me what is shown for the lines UNDINIC 0xaddress has type type, speed speed, flags flags UNDINIC 0xaddress uses IRQ irq I found the following 3 lines in red: UNDINIC using UNDI

Re: [ipxe-devel] iSCSI boot question

2011-03-12 Thread Michael Brown
On Saturday 12 Mar 2011 07:46:40 Hsuan-Yeh Chang wrote: Hello all! It looks to me that dhcpd.conf must be properly configured before iPXE can boot an iSCSI target. But I don't understand why iSCSI boot needs be so correlated with dhcpd.conf. Can one not sanboot an iSCSI target by

Re: [ipxe-devel] eepro100 vs qemu

2011-03-12 Thread Michael Brown
On Saturday 12 Mar 2011 12:05:53 Michael Brown wrote: On Friday 11 Mar 2011 18:27:28 Alex Williamson wrote: I'm looking to refresh qemu's PXE ROMs with iPXE, but it looks like the eepro100 ROM has been broken for qemu for quite some time. I bisected the start of the problem back

Re: [ipxe-devel] running embedded script got iPXE into a reboot loop

2011-03-13 Thread Michael Brown
On Sunday 13 Mar 2011 09:18:47 ttz...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to include a embedded script into my ipxe.iso image. But when I boot the ipxe.iso inside my VMware, it seems to fall into a reboot loop. It keeps restating after showing the snip The boot.ipxe is a very simple script looks

Re: [ipxe-devel] eepro100 vs qemu

2011-03-14 Thread Michael Brown
On Monday 14 Mar 2011 19:57:35 Alex Williamson wrote: Ok, sorry for the distraction, I think I can explain it now. Last week I was testing large (8G) guests. Today I was trying to figure out how the pcnet32 image ever worked because I couldn't make the old gpxe or the new ipxe image work.

Re: [ipxe-devel] eepro100 vs qemu

2011-03-14 Thread Michael Brown
On Tuesday 15 Mar 2011 01:25:51 Michael Brown wrote: On Monday 14 Mar 2011 19:57:35 Alex Williamson wrote: Ok, sorry for the distraction, I think I can explain it now. Last week I was testing large (8G) guests. Today I was trying to figure out how the pcnet32 image ever worked because I

Re: [ipxe-devel] Coreboot+Seabios with PMM + iPXE hangs

2011-03-14 Thread Michael Brown
On Thursday 24 Feb 2011 00:48:56 Michael Brown wrote: On Monday 14 Feb 2011 15:17:25 Jarrod Johnson wrote: I will say the PMM stuff seems to hang with latest 'release' seabios on qemu all the time, and after reboot from linux with 0.5.1 seabios. I am unable to reproduce this. Latest qemu

Re: [ipxe-devel] Keymap support

2011-03-16 Thread Michael Brown
On Wednesday 09 Mar 2011 09:03:47 Sven Dreyer wrote: is there a possibility to change the keymap of iPXE? There is now. Edit KEYBOARD_MAP in config/console.h. I would appreciate feedback on how well this works since I have only a UK keyboard to test with, and the US and UK layouts have only

Re: [ipxe-devel] Keymap support

2011-03-16 Thread Michael Brown
On Wednesday 16 Mar 2011 14:58:11 Sven Dreyer wrote: find attached a keymap patch for the german (de) keymap. The key on US keyboard has to be mapped to ; on german keyboard. Most other (german umlauts, like ÄÖÜ) cannot be mapped since they are not on the US keymap, but that's no problem

Re: [ipxe-devel] does not clean config/local

2011-03-16 Thread Michael Brown
On Wednesday 16 Mar 2011 16:13:54 Bastian Blank wrote: On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 04:14:40PM +, Michael Brown wrote: On Wednesday 16 Mar 2011 14:41:49 Bastian Blank wrote: make veryclean does not clean up config/local/*. The files are already properly ignored. config/local/*.h

Re: [ipxe-devel] iPXE in a Windows Server Environment

2011-03-16 Thread Michael Brown
On Wednesday 16 Mar 2011 21:03:30 Shahid Munir wrote: Is anyone using iPXE on a Windows 2003 server with IIS v6? I ma having problems with images being pulled back by iPXE and keep getting the error 3d008001. I am even having trouble getting memtest to work. Any ideas or pointers would

Re: [ipxe-devel] SAN Boot Windows XP with USB-NIC.

2011-03-16 Thread Michael Brown
On Tuesday 15 Mar 2011 18:06:05 jerrycheng-hinet wrote: i.e. assume that the NIC supports interrupts if *either* the ServiceFlags indicate SUPPORTED_IRQ *or* the IRQ number is non-zero. I have tried to add above code to undinet.c. It seemed to work for my USB-NIC. Yes; unfortunately it

Re: [ipxe-devel] iPXE in a Windows Server Environment

2011-03-16 Thread Michael Brown
On Thursday 17 Mar 2011 01:04:57 Shahid Munir wrote: I downloaded http://boot.ipxe.org/undionly.kpxe only a few weeks ago. Download it again. You'll get the newer version. (Until I get to the point of making a numbered iPXE release, the downloads from http://boot.ipxe.org are always built

Re: [ipxe-devel] SAN Boot Windows XP with USB-NIC.

2011-03-18 Thread Michael Brown
On Friday 18 Mar 2011 09:24:11 jerrycheng-hinet wrote: My NB has an on board NIC. It can successfully sanboot windows xp. I captured the wireshark trace of the successful case and compare it to USB-NIC case. Please open the attached wireshark trace files. For the same read command, frame 3

Re: [ipxe-devel] HP Blade Support

2011-03-19 Thread Michael Brown
On Friday 18 Mar 2011 20:07:43 Andrew Bobulsky wrote: There's a setup log buried deep in the Panther folder on the RAM drive WinPE uses that will contain diagnostic info, but I found out (after days of pulling my hair out!) that this is [usually] an issue with resolving ARC paths to NT Device

Re: [ipxe-devel] [Etherboot-developers] [PATCH] forcedeth driver - very bad transfer rate / missing register update

2011-03-20 Thread Michael Brown
Mar 20 12:29:05 2011 + [forcedeth] Clear the MII link status register on link status changes Signed-off-by: Michael Brown mc...@ipxe.org diff --git a/src/drivers/net/forcedeth.c b/src/drivers/net/forcedeth.c index 6876b00..918f502 100644 --- a/src/drivers/net/forcedeth.c +++ b/src

Re: [ipxe-devel] [Etherboot-discuss] drop to a boot prompt

2011-03-21 Thread Michael Brown
On Monday 21 Mar 2011 01:37:22 Dan R wrote: I just stared to play around with gpxe and so far its been really fun to play with but there is one thing that I haven't been able to find an answer to and I wan't to see if you could help me out. What am trying to do is when gpxe loads to have it

Re: [ipxe-devel] SAN Boot Windows XP with USB-NIC.

2011-03-23 Thread Michael Brown
On Thursday 03 Mar 2011 17:07:58 Michael Brown wrote: The only change I can think of that might be relevant to the UNDI driver is http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commitdiff/006d9f1 It's possible that your card is erroneously reporting that it doesn't support interrupts, when in fact

Re: [ipxe-devel] SAN Boot Windows XP with USB-NIC.

2011-03-23 Thread Michael Brown
On Wednesday 23 Mar 2011 16:56:17 jerrycheng-hinet wrote: After updating to the latest iPXE (which seems to include this change), everything works fine with my USB-NIC. Thanks for testing. At least that's one issue permanently resolved. :) Michael

Re: [ipxe-devel] SAN Boot Windows XP with USB-NIC.

2011-03-23 Thread Michael Brown
On Monday 21 Mar 2011 10:43:52 jerrycheng-hinet wrote: I ordered it directly from the following website. http://argontechnology.com/PXE-Network-Adapters/10/100MB-USB-Fast-Ethernet- Adapter-with-PXE.html Thanks. I have ordered a cheap USB network adapter, and will be purchasing a copy of the

Re: [ipxe-devel] Manual IP config does no pass 209:string to chain pxelinux.0

2011-03-25 Thread Michael Brown
On Friday 25 Mar 2011 18:24:21 Marcus Grando wrote: How can I create one script to config static IP addr and chain to pxelinux.0? I did this but does not work, only works if I use dhcp. Script is something like that: #!ipxe ifopen net0 set net0/ip 192.168.0.10 set net0/netmask

Re: [ipxe-devel] Manual IP config does no pass 209:string to chain pxelinux.0

2011-03-28 Thread Michael Brown
about the error handling in __pxe_searchdir(), so would appreciate some review. Michael commit 9126eb27d1d9597eb8751a5ef75c9bdcf4e429a6 Author: Michael Brown mc...@ipxe.org Date: Mon Mar 28 20:44:17 2011 +0100 pxe: allow TFTP server IP to be empty when not using TFTP Reported

Re: [ipxe-devel] Chainloading from iPXE to other PXE servers

2011-03-28 Thread Michael Brown
On Monday 28 Mar 2011 21:11:28 Mike Sollanych wrote: I'll give the patch a shot as soon as I can and let you know. To make sure I understand correctly: I should then be able to put ${variables} inside the menu config files I am loading for vesamenu.c32 and they should be expanded? Yes,

Re: [ipxe-devel] [gPXE] Need help with gPXE set up

2011-03-29 Thread Michael Brown
On Tuesday 29 Mar 2011 06:31:32 Pandey, Hariom Sharan wrote: We are setting up PXE boot using NX3031 NIC card which is now coming with gPXE code. Our servers are using DHCP assigned IP for PXE boot and works great for PXE, using gPXE I am coming across through timeout error, please refer

Re: [ipxe-devel] Support allmroms target

2011-03-30 Thread Michael Brown
On Wednesday 30 Mar 2011 15:55:10 Bastian Blank wrote: There is currently no support for zrom, so allow usage of allmroms and make allall work. I had already removed .zrom before I saw your mail, sorry: http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commitdiff/8399488 I've modified and applied your allmroms

Re: [ipxe-devel] [gPXE] Static IP address setting in gPXE

2011-03-30 Thread Michael Brown
On Thursday 31 Mar 2011 02:42:36 何闯 wrote: For some reason, I want to set a static IP address for my gPXE bootloader. I first run a PXENV_GET_CACHED_INFO call in pxeprefix.S, and store the result in pxe_cached_dhcpack_data then I coded such( dhcp call is replaced by it ):

Re: [ipxe-devel] Iscsi boot fails with the error message: Connection reset

2011-03-30 Thread Michael Brown
On Thursday 31 Mar 2011 03:13:20 Frank Weed wrote: I am trying to do an iscsi boot with ipxe, but I get an error message Connection reset. Any idea on how I can get around this? The error message that you see should include a URL, such as http://ipxe.org/0f0a6039 Try visiting the URL shown

Re: [ipxe-devel] Iscsi boot fails with the error message: Connection reset

2011-03-31 Thread Michael Brown
On Thursday 31 Mar 2011 06:12:51 Frank Weed wrote: I have gone though the page, and unfortunately I still get the same problem. You haven't mentioned yet which error you are seeing. I'm going to assume that you are seeing the error http://ipxe.org/0f0a6039 - it would be useful if you could

Re: [ipxe-devel] Iscsi boot fails with the error message: Connection reset

2011-03-31 Thread Michael Brown
On Thursday 31 Mar 2011 12:15:34 Michael Brown wrote: You haven't mentioned yet which error you are seeing. I'm going to assume that you are seeing the error http://ipxe.org/0f0a6039 - it would be useful if you could confirm this. For information, the other possible Connection reset errors

Re: [ipxe-devel] [Etherboot-discuss] Need help with San boot - Windows XP boot stuck at Logo

2011-04-16 Thread Michael Brown
On Saturday 16 Apr 2011 08:57:54 Glenn Roberts wrote: You should see some information from sanbootconf appear on the XP splash screen, as shown in http://ipxe.org/_detail/screenshots/sanbootconf.png What information do you see? ERROR: local nic mac address not found There's your

Re: [ipxe-devel] ipxe configuration files, forum

2011-04-24 Thread Michael Brown
On Tuesday 19 Apr 2011 14:40:58 Dylan's PCs wrote: The forum has been running happily at http://forum.ipxe.org for several days now, and is up to 8 members and 26 posts. I'm really quite pleased with it! I just wanted to let you know that I'll be starting the code for this in the next

Re: [ipxe-devel] Question Regarding ipxe/gpxe

2011-04-24 Thread Michael Brown
On Thursday 31 Mar 2011 00:31:02 Michael Brown wrote: You should therefore be able to issue a command to boot from the SAN device at BIOS drive 0x80 *without* having actually hooked in a SAN device. This should cause the machine to boot from the local disk without exiting iPXE. Sorry it's

Re: [ipxe-devel] ISO SAN booting

2011-04-27 Thread Michael Brown
On Wednesday 27 Apr 2011 23:54:07 James A. Peltier wrote: Why can't this be done with NFS or HTTP boot? I mean I *really* like this idea of avoiding the memdisk/grub booting of ISO images but it would be nice to not have it limited to these formats? Perhaps something like sanboot

Re: [ipxe-devel] ISO SAN booting

2011-04-28 Thread Michael Brown
On Friday 29 Apr 2011 00:45:57 Andrew Stuart wrote: Correct, mfsbsd works after inadvertently pulling another update. I've tested a bunch of other BSD images and they are working as well. Great. :) Freedos's also work after that patch, although they don't seem to see the cd after the os

Re: [ipxe-devel] ifopen net0 not enough space

2011-05-03 Thread Michael Brown
On Tuesday 03 May 2011 08:59:31 Matthias Teege wrote: I've build the latest ipxe.iso (987b825b7f046e844a332d27497b4846cb23ba43) to boot a system from an AoE target. But I cannot open a network interface. ifopen net0 gives me not enough space. The server has 8 e1000 interfaces. Is there

Re: [ipxe-devel] Telling iPXE to only take certain DHCP offers

2011-05-05 Thread Michael Brown
On Thursday 05 May 2011 16:42:10 Floris Bos wrote: Is there any way to tell iPXE to only accept DHCP offers that have the boot file name set? Concerns a scenario in which there are two DHCP servers active within the same network. 1) One that hands out IP-addresses to everyone for normal

Re: [ipxe-devel] Problem chainloading iPXE from some legacy Intel PXE

2011-05-05 Thread Michael Brown
On Thursday 05 May 2011 18:03:35 Jedrzej Kalinowski wrote: Any chance you could look into this issue. I can help debugging :) Try the attached patch with DEBUG=undionly and undionly.kpxe. (It will break undionly.kkpxe.) First, I've altered the patch a bit, because the

Re: [ipxe-devel] Telling iPXE to only take certain DHCP offers

2011-05-06 Thread Michael Brown
On Friday 06 May 2011 15:15:59 Greg Jednaszewski wrote: I have a similar situation, but I don't always have control over the DHCP servers in question. Can you describe what iPXE does when it receives responses from multiple DHCP servers? If it doesn't see the option 175 priority setting,

Re: [ipxe-devel] Confirm Possible mishandling of http port when http auth is used.

2011-05-06 Thread Michael Brown
On Thursday 05 May 2011 23:28:46 Andrew Stuart wrote: Is there a way to compile with more (debug) information for http.c and associated files? Yes. Add DEBUG=http to your build command line. For example: make bin/ipxe.iso DEBUG=http More information about debugging builds is available at

Re: [ipxe-devel] Problem with iPXE in VirtualBox

2011-05-06 Thread Michael Brown
On Friday 06 May 2011 02:44:15 Mircea Vutcovici wrote: The previous capture has the packets truncated. I've made another test and the capture is attached. Thanks. I can't tell from your packet capture whether or not any packets are being received. Please either use the latest iPXE code

Re: [ipxe-devel] [PATCH] minor iPXE rom-o-matic fix

2011-05-06 Thread Michael Brown
On Friday 06 May 2011 18:15:54 Floris Bos wrote: Attached a patch to get contrib/rom-o-matic to compile iPXE. Applied, thanks! http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commitdiff/b7d923f Michael ___ ipxe-devel mailing list ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org

Re: [ipxe-devel] ipxe configuration files, forum

2011-05-08 Thread Michael Brown
On Sunday 08 May 2011 04:24:43 Dylan's PCs wrote: I've been experimenting reading about different ways to implement this functionality, and I've been looking very seriously at the mailparse extension for PHP ( http://php.net/manual/en/book.mailparse.php ) as a likely candidate. Is this an

Re: [ipxe-devel] question on speed of download using kernel/initrd

2011-05-11 Thread Michael Brown
On Wednesday 11 May 2011 04:44:47 Joe Landman wrote: The download speed is pretty terrible though. Very very slow, about 23kB/s. I was hoping for something much faster than tftp. Is there any way to speed this up? Which driver is this? There are some drivers (e.g. tg3) that are known to be

Re: [ipxe-devel] Sanboot Slax ISO -- failed

2011-05-17 Thread Michael Brown
On Tuesday 17 May 2011 21:43:08 Hsuan-Yeh Chang wrote: Attached is the result of Ubuntu 11.04. Apparently, Ubuntu also does not know where to find the live CD under sanboot... Can this be solved in iPXE or does it have to be addressed in each distro? Has to be done in each distro. By the

Re: [ipxe-devel] [gPXE] Timing out

2011-05-18 Thread Michael Brown
On Wednesday 18 May 2011 09:35:12 Beren Scott wrote: I am trying to use gPXE, and I have a simple script which just has autoboot. The problem is, it begins to transfer the file boot.PXE but times out within a couple of seconds. So, I need to know how to extend the timeout time. A check of

Re: [ipxe-devel] iPXE DHCP failure

2011-05-18 Thread Michael Brown
On Monday 16 May 2011 17:13:53 Michael Cirineo wrote: I'm able to get my iPXE client to complete a DHCP request and boot when it is connected directly to my DHCP/boot server. It's only when I put the network between them that the DHCP exchange fails. Wireshark tells me everyone receives

Re: [ipxe-devel] iPXE DHCP failure

2011-05-19 Thread Michael Brown
On Thursday 19 May 2011 00:24:30 Michael Cirineo wrote: But iPXE looks like DHCPDISCOVER DHCPOFFER DHCPDISCOVER DHCPOFFER DHCPREQUEST DHCPREQUEST DHCPREQUEST DHCPREQUEST DHCPREQUEST Weirdly, even on the best, working reboots, it always does the discover twice, even though iPXE

Re: [ipxe-devel] arbel sanboot ib_srp

2011-05-19 Thread Michael Brown
On Wednesday 18 May 2011 20:28:43 Lee Staples wrote: Have just reinstalled SCST and built latest ipxe commit (c49659c4f26e23f3fc234c2068786872554daa69) with the arbel queue pair patch from last year. Would be grateful if you could take a look at the error I'm getting and advise as it

Re: [ipxe-devel] [gPXE] PXE Boot Failed

2011-05-23 Thread Michael Brown
On Monday 23 May 2011 14:41:18 mammar wrote: when i try to boot from the booting haned/failed with the following messages: PXE-EB !PXE at 9A387:0070, entry point at 9A38:0109 UNDI code segment 9A38:AODO (576-629 kB) UNDI device is PCI 02:00.0, type DIX+802.3 576 kB free base memory after

Re: [ipxe-devel] arbel sanboot ib_srp

2011-05-24 Thread Michael Brown
On Tuesday 24 May 2011 09:55:00 Lee Staples wrote: Would be grateful if you could advise if the following known firmware bug might be the cause DoorBell loss DoorBells may be lost on systems with a 64-KByte page size upon heavy stress conditions I don't think this is likely to be

Re: [ipxe-devel] Command line disabled when embedding a script

2011-05-26 Thread Michael Brown
On Thursday 26 May 2011 15:53:39 Nicolas Bourbaki wrote: Is there a way not to disable the command-line when embedding a script inside the ipxe binary ? Whenever you build using the following: make EMBEDDED_IMAGE=path-to-script the command line gets disabled which can be annoying when

Re: [ipxe-devel] Command line disabled when embedding a script

2011-05-26 Thread Michael Brown
On Thursday 26 May 2011 16:19:04 Sven Dreyer wrote: I asked myself whether this could be configurable via a DHCP option, like: option ipxe.no-prompt code XXX = unsigned integer 8; For specific hosts, I then could set: option ipxe.no-prompt 1; in the host's section of my dhcpd.conf.

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