[ipxe-devel] kernel panic with ipxe.efi

[Robin Smidsrød]

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On 02.04.2015 16:36, Christian Hesse wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> trying to boot a UEFI device with iPXE (bin-x86_64-efi/ipxe.efi)
> results in a kernel panic. iPXE starts just fine, then downloads
> three files via http...
> 
> * linux64 (Linux bzImage) * intel-ucode.img (uncompressed cpio
> archive with intel ucode) * initrd64 (xz compressed initramfs)
> 
> ..boots the kernel, which panics. I took a picture of the kernel
> panic: http://www.eworm.de/tmp/DSC_0038.JPG
> 
> The same files work just fine with iPXE bios version.

I believe you've forgotten the initrd=initrd64 kernel command line
parameter which is needed on UEFI. it should match the name for the
initrd output by imgstat.

- -- Robin
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