[ipxe-devel] some problem when initial devices in ipxe.efi

[Jarrod Johnson]

Meant to post to list.  In short, snponly.efi can be chainloaded from a PXE
boot in UEFI as an application (
https://git.ipxe.org/vendor/xcat/ipxe.git/shortlog)  It has a patch not yet
accepted into ipxe main.

However, you mentioned going from .iso.  That needs an extra step.  Either
an intermediate loader to switch around the loaded image handle prior to
execution, or a patch to ipxe shoring up it's support for non-IPXE SNP
drivers to go beyond loaded image.  I had been hoping to get to the latter,
but a combination of not having enough time or intelligence has gotten in
the way.


On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 1:36 AM, Yixuan Huang <yixuan178 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Oh, don't notice to list. :-）
> Thanks Robin
>
> Hello Guys,
> If I want to use ipxe in EFI mode, any easy way to built one? Now, I have
> ipxe.efi, snponly,efi, snpnet.efi, 80861521.efi, (my nic is intel e1000,
> 8086/1521),  but it cannot detect that NIC.
> Robin said we can use as EFI driver, Iwant to know how to execute it. Any
> documentation?
>
> Thanks,
> yixuan
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 9:38 PM, Robin Smidsrød <robin at smidsrod.no> wrote:
>
>> I don't know. Please keep the conversation on the list, not in private.
>>
>> Most likely some of the other people on the list can answer that. I also
>> believe it's been answered before. Don't remember when. Check the
>> mailing-list archives.
>>
>> -- Robin
>>
>> On 10.07.2013 12:22, Yixuan Huang wrote:
>> > hello Robin,
>> > Thanks for your information.
>> > But if I want to launch from uefi shell, how can I do? Any documentation
>> > in ipxe.org <http://ipxe.org>?
>> > And do you know if ipxe support as app in the furture?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Eugene
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > yixuan
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Robin Smidsrød <robin at smidsrod.no
>> > <mailto:robin at smidsrod.no>> wrote:
>> >
>> >     iPXE as an UEFI app doesn't yet work. You'll need to load it as a
>> driver
>> >     or rom, AFAIK.
>> >
>> >     -- Robin
>> >
>> >     On 10.07.2013 09 <tel:10.07.2013%2009>:56, Yixuan Huang wrote:
>> >     > when I used snponly.efi, (make bin-x86-64/snponly.efi) same issue.
>> >     >
>> >     > Thanks,
>> >     > yixuan
>> >     >
>> >     >
>> >     > On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Yixuan Huang <
>> yixuan178 at gmail.com
>> >     <mailto:yixuan178 at gmail.com>
>> >     > <mailto:yixuan178 at gmail.com <mailto:yixuan178 at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>> >     >
>> >     >     Hello,
>> >     >     I built ipxe.efi in my rhel6.4 platform with git clone that
>> latest
>> >     >     code level.
>> >     >     And I enable ftp/https protocols.
>> >     >
>> >     >     my system is ibm x3650m4, last time when i used pre-build
>> binary
>> >     >     ipxe.iso,
>> >     >     network cards can be set and http can work.
>> >     >
>> >     >     But this time, it seems no nic worked. i first boot from
>> >     uefi-shell,
>> >     >     then run ipxe.efi.
>> >     >
>> >     >     screen like following:
>> >     >     ipxe 1.0.0+(9361) ...
>> >     >     Features: FTP HTTP HTTPS DNS TFTP EFI Menu
>> >     >     No more network devices
>> >     >     iPXE initialsing device...
>> >     >
>> >     >     it will hang...
>> >     >
>> >     >     question:
>> >     >     * how can i build other nic drivers or which one can support
>> >     all nics?
>> >     >
>> >     >
>> >     >     Thanks,
>> >     >     yixuan
>> >     >
>> >     >
>> >     >
>> >     >
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