Re: Booting GPT part table via BIOS, bootable flag required in protective MBR

Hello Mike, it looks for me like a BIOS problem if it works on another machines. Can you look for BIOS Update for this laptop? I have similar setups without such problems. As a workaround you can use in class/ cat <<'EOF'>21-edu-board_name #! /bin/bash # assign classes to ho

Booting GPT part table via BIOS, bootable flag required in protective MBR

set up a FAI environment recently and stumbled over a phenomenon that might required an adjust in FAI's partitioning tool. We installed an HP notebook via BIOS mode using the partitioning rules given below. After FAI installation was successful, the notebook would not boot

Re: UEFI + Legacy BIOS TFTP/PXELINUX

Ok, I found a bug. My Thinkpad X230 does not work correctly using UEFI. Using a Dell notebook shows, that my tftp, DHCP setup is correct and loads ldlinux.e64 and then the pxelinux.cfg/. config files. -- regards Thomas

Re: UEFI + Legacy BIOS TFTP/PXELINUX

Yeah, I'm sure. The syslinux-efi package works as advertized. I mean, you cannot boot an EFI machine via pxelinux.0. That would hang. Are you saying that you're not seeing a request for ldlinux.e64 right after the request for syslinux.efi? There's no error message in the tftp logs? File not

Re: UEFI + Legacy BIOS TFTP/PXELINUX

Hi John, I didn't manage to get network booting using UEFI without grub but with syslinux running. I copied the syslinux.efi and ldlinux.e64 into my tftp directory. Using tcpdump I see that the UEFI is getting the syslinux.efi file (even I use a different name and a symlink). I do not see any

Re: UEFI + Legacy BIOS TFTP/PXELINUX

Hi, Yes ! Thanks ! It works after modifying the file "60-misc" like described by Thomas and this line : ``` primary /boot/efi 204800K vfat rw ``` to ``` primary /boot/efi 204800K vfat rw createopts="-s2 -F32" ``` Thank you very much. Best regards, Rémy. Le lun. 9 juil. 2018 à 15:39, Thomas

Re: UEFI + Legacy BIOS TFTP/PXELINUX

The current version of 60-misc now uses this code if [ -d /sys/firmware/efi ]; then echo GRUB_EFI elif ifclass -o I386 AMD64 ; then echo GRUB_PC fi -- regards Thomas

Re: UEFI + Legacy BIOS TFTP/PXELINUX

Syslinux does support EFI booting. It's > in the syslinux-efi package. > > Here is the code in my dhcp config file that sets the filename option > depending on EFI/BIOS boot: > > === begin === > # tell a kernel how to boot via PXE or NFS > server-name faiserver; > next-se

Re: UEFI + Legacy BIOS TFTP/PXELINUX

in the syslinux-efi package. Here is the code in my dhcp config file that sets the filename option depending on EFI/BIOS boot: === begin === # tell a kernel how to boot via PXE or NFS server-name faiserver; next-server faiserver; # Check pxe boot code #93 to determine whether we are booting via BIOS or EFI

Re: UEFI + Legacy BIOS TFTP/PXELINUX

EFI/BIOS detect an unbootable disk differently. But in my experience, it does not matter if the disk does not have a bootable partition, as long as there is a partition table on the disk, it won't move on to pxe boot again. There is sample code in the fai-doc package that creates the classes

Re: UEFI + Legacy BIOS TFTP/PXELINUX

Just a note ... You can still use syslinux/pxelinux to do FAI installs for both EFI and BIOS. In other words, you don't have to switch to grub, you can still use the syslinux pxe config files you created via fai-chboot. Here is a link to an article that shows how to get isc-dhcp-server

Re: UEFI + Legacy BIOS TFTP/PXELINUX

ware servers > do not support full legacy BIOS anymore (particularly hard disk plugin on > those servers). > > Our legacy pxelinux works just fine from a while now (and thanks for it). > > I followed this link : > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/2014-February/

RE: UEFI + Legacy BIOS TFTP/PXELINUX

Dernat Sent: Friday, July 6, 2018 3:28 PM To: linux-fai@uni-koeln.de Subject: UEFI + Legacy BIOS TFTP/PXELINUX Hi, I am trying to set up an UEFI boot pxe mainly because our hardware servers do not support full legacy BIOS anymore (particularly hard disk plugin on those servers). Our legacy

UEFI + Legacy BIOS TFTP/PXELINUX

Hi, I am trying to set up an UEFI boot pxe mainly because our hardware servers do not support full legacy BIOS anymore (particularly hard disk plugin on those servers). Our legacy pxelinux works just fine from a while now (and thanks for it). I followed this link : https://lists.uni-koeln.de

Re: FAI installation on new PCs with UEFI BIOS -- reloaded

Hi Juri, thank you for the useful hint. We'll try this if we encounter issues with some BIOSes not booting using the chain loader. Cheers, w.w. On Tue, 19 Sep 2017, fai...@lihas.de wrote: Hello, it exist one lua script for pxelinux, which one can solve your problem generally. If not

Re: FAI installation on new PCs with UEFI BIOS -- reloaded

Hello, it exist one lua script for pxelinux, which one can solve your problem generally. If not please report issue against https://github.com/IServ-GmbH/localboot.lua Mit freundlichen Gruessen, Juri Grabowski

FAI installation on new PCs with UEFI BIOS -- reloaded

Hi, today we expericened a new problem with a new PC (having an ASUS UEFI BIOS vers. 2.17.1246) and our cluster's FAI installation. Similar to what I had described (and solved by a workaround) in an earlier thread (http://linux-fai.uni-koeln.narkive.com/Qd1zAQEJ/fai-installation-on-new-pcs

R: Problem with Serial ATA RAID (aka "fake RAID" or "BIOS RAID")

Hi Thomas, thank you for your reply! > I would try to avoid RST, and just use software raid. > In your shell.log you have this line: > > ERROR: Found Software RAID, but the mdadm package was not installed > > You need the mdadm package installed, if you use software raid. > > Try again with

Re: Problem with Serial ATA RAID (aka "fake RAID" or "BIOS RAID")

I would try to avoid RST, and just use software raid. In your shell.log you have this line: ERROR: Found Software RAID, but the mdadm package was not installed You need the mdadm package installed, if you use software raid. Try again with the package mdadm added, but I guess the fake raid is

Problem with Serial ATA RAID (aka "fake RAID" or "BIOS RAID")

t I've put into a single RAID1 array (mirroring) prior to the installation using the capabilities provided by Intel Rapid Storage Technology (RST), which is a sort of SATA/fake/BIOS RAID. After the installation, the system doesn't boot, i.e. GRUB is not executed. My feeling is that I have to mod

Re: Problem with GPT Bios Partition

Hello everyone, just a follow-up. With the help from Kerim I could managed my setup. The disk-label "gpt-bios" will create this special 2MB Bios-Partition at the end of the part-layout. It's not neccessary to define it in the disk_config-File. So to create my layout as I mention in

Problem with GPT Bios Partition

Hello everyone, I'm using FAI 5.0 and need a special partition layout for our centos kvm installation. The partition schema need to be like this: GPT /dev/sda1 2048 6143 2M BIOS boot partition /dev/sda2 6144 16783359 8G Linux swap /dev/sda3 16783360 17831935 512M Microsoft basic data /boot /dev

Re: Problem with GPT Bios Partition

Hi Denny, there seems to be a mismatch of sorts between your desired schema and what you're actually describing. I am going to assume you want an EFI partition that you're going to boot off of. To do so, this should work: disk_config disk1 disklabel:gpt-bios bootable:1 fstabkey:uuid

Re: Problem with GPT Bios Partition

Hey Kerim, no not really - my disk_config could be/is wrong. The following schema need to be created by FAI disk_config: GPT /dev/sda1 2048 6143 2M BIOS boot partition /dev/sda2 6144 16783359 8G Linux swap /dev/sda3 16783360 17831935 512M Microsoft basic data /boot /dev/sda4 17831936 49289215

Re: Problem with GPT Bios Partition

: disk_config disk1 disklabel:gpt-bios bootable:1 fstabkey:uuid primary - 2048msdosrw # (msdos is fat16) primaryswap8192swaprw primary /boot512ext4rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro primary /15360ext4rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro logical-1--- Best regards Kerim On 26.11.2015 18:14, Denny Bortfeldt

Re: FAI installation on new PCs with UEFI BIOS

> On Tue, 1 Sep 2015 10:35:27 +0200, Wolfgang Walkowiak > said: > Basically it suggests to replace the stanca >LOCALBOOT 0 > by >LOCALBOOT -1 Hi Wolfgang, I tested this with three of my hardware boxes, and I had no problems. I

Re: FAI installation on new PCs with UEFI BIOS

Hi Thomas (et al.), thanks. I just discovered a work-around for my issue with the UEFI BIOS looking at http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/SYSLINUX#LOCALBOOT_type Basically it suggests to replace the stanca LOCALBOOT 0 by LOCALBOOT -1 in the appropriate PXELINUX menu. This causes

Re: Creating GPT BIOS partition with FAI 4.0.6

Thomas Neumann wrote: setup-storage will create a new partition and mark it and the location of this 'boot'-partition is at the beginning of the disk, but the partition index is the next after the last defined partition, e.g.: disk_config disk1 disklabel:gpt-bios primary / 200M

Re: Creating GPT BIOS partition with FAI 4.0.6

. You can. automatic: disklabel:gpt-bios manual: disklabel:gpt However 'gpt-bios' will result in a 'out-of-order' partition naming, like described in my previous post. I´d like do have all clients trying netboot and if there's no server using their normal installation. ??? This has

Re: Creating GPT BIOS partition with FAI 4.0.6

On 03/19/2013 11:16 AM, andrew bezella wrote: unless this has changed in fai4, you would want to use disklabel:gpt-bios instead of gpt. the necessary bios_grub partition should then be created automatically. That's what I need to know. Thank you.

Re: Creating GPT BIOS partition with FAI 4.0.6

On Tuesday, March 19, 2013 07:16:38 PM andrew bezella wrote: On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 10:59 -0700, Bob Apodaca wrote: disk_config disk1 disklabel:gpt bootable:1 fstabkey:uuid unless this has changed in fai4, you would want to use disklabel:gpt-bios instead of gpt. the necessary bios_grub

Re: whole disk RAID partitioned directly, with Grub BIOS partition

How about something like # example of new config file for setup-storage # # type mountpoint size fs type mount options misc options disk_config disk1 align-at:32256B primary - 128 - - logical - 2048- - logical - 2048- - logical - 5120-

Re: whole disk RAID partitioned directly, with Grub BIOS partition

to give options to parted (e.g. to create a GRUB BIOS boot partition). The option to parted needs to be of the form set N bios_grub on, where N is the partition number. for this it may make sense to use disklabel:gpt-bios. it creates an add'l partition for bios_grub. -- andrew bezella abeze

Re: gpt-bios from setup-storage - does it really work?

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 01:37:24PM +0100, Carsten Aulbert wrote: Hi I'm trying to partition a machine with the following disk configuration: disk_config /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-3600050e0f065*[A-Z0-9_][A-Z0-9_][A-Z0-9_] fstabkey:uuid disklabel:gpt-bios bootable:1 primary /boot 256

Re: Changing the BIOS boot order in linux

some fairly substantial rewriting since the days of Control Tower 3 on the original RLX blade products, though. Back to the question at hand, updating BIOS settings is frequently a hardware specific issue, and difficult to automate. It's one of the principal reasons why I'm a fan of blade

Changing the BIOS boot order in linux

Hello, I'm working on a project to do automatic Cent OS installation. I've done all the things successfully except manual intervention in BIOS boot order change. I'm using PXE boot server, DHCP, tftp, syslinux, kickstart configuration for the OS installation. It seems in the Linux

Re: Changing the BIOS boot order in linux

On Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:29:34 +0530, Sridhar Kumar Kotturu sridhar.kott...@gmail.com said: It seems in the Linux, it is NOT possible to change BIOS boot order in running LINUX box. AFAIK it's not possible. There may be some hacks, but these don't work on all machines. In FAI

Re: BIOS

Hi Holger, Holger Levsen wrote: Are you aware that you can flash many bioses from linux now? Read http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/flashing-a-bios-the-linux-way-tm-using-flashrom to learn more, it's packaged and in sid, but a backport to etch is trivial. We have seen Uwe's planet post

Re: BIOS

Hi, On Thursday 09 August 2007 09:37, Henning Fehrmann wrote: we are interested in flashing a BIOS image and in manipulating the NVRAM of the motherboard automatically. Are you aware that you can flash many bioses from linux now? Read http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/flashing-a-bios-the-linux

Re: BIOS

Hello, This IMHO could be done without touching a real disk's MBR using a file (untested). Copying the MBR was basically the first method which worked. According to the docu of memdisk, if you want to use arbitrary image sizes, it has to be hd image with mbr and partition table. IIRC

Re: BIOS

On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 11:03:10 +0200, Steffen Grunewald [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: That's the problem: to get a reasonable message *somewhere* you'd need a TCP/IP stack. Or am I missing something? No, you are right. TCP/IP is needed. -- regards Thomas

[Fwd: Re: BIOS]

Sorry, used wrong from address (twice) Original Message Subject: Re: BIOS Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 10:49:06 +0200 From: Carsten Aulbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics To: linux-fai linux-fai@uni-koeln.de References: [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Fwd: Re: BIOS]

again Original Message Subject: Re: BIOS Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:29:40 +0200 From: Carsten Aulbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics To: linux-fai@uni-koeln.de References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: BIOS

] [070809 10:42]: On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 09:37:02 +0200, Henning Fehrmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: we are interested in flashing a BIOS image and in manipulating the NVRAM of the motherboard automatically. Wow. Do you really need this? Unfortunately, using certain vendors

Re: BIOS

Am Donnerstag, 9. August 2007 11:26:05 schrieb Tim Cutts: On 9 Aug 2007, at 10:03 am, Steffen Grunewald wrote: On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 10:42:41AM +0200, Thomas Lange wrote: On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 09:37:02 +0200, Henning Fehrmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: we are interested in flashing a BIOS

Re: [Fwd: Re: BIOS]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 11:45:43AM +0200, Carsten Aulbert wrote: We are currently looking into the package offered here: http://www.bgnett.no/~giva/index.html That's the 32-bit version of WatTCP, isn't it? I couldn't get a proper documentation (and a binary build!) when I last looked... If