[ipxe-devel] Option ROM causing hang during BIOS update

[Ed Swierk]

I neglected to mention that I already tried the .mrom version, with
exactly the same result.

Right now I'm trying to figure out the value of %gs that the BIOS is
returning from the int 1a call, and whether that qualifies as
"insane".

--Ed


On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 6:09 PM, Michael Brown <mcb30 at ipxe.org> wrote:
> On 21/03/15 02:41, Ed Swierk wrote:
>>
>> After I build 808610fc.rom and flash it to the NIC, I can boot the
>> system, select iPXE as the boot device, and boot Linux just fine.
>> <snip>
>> So I very much suspect this is actually a bug in the new Intel server
>> BIOS. But I figure the likelihood of finding a workaround in iPXE is
>> much higher than getting Intel to fix their BIOS.
>
>
> I think that NIC has a memory BAR of at least 128kB, which should therefore
> be large enough to use bin/808610fc.mrom instead of bin/808610fc.rom.  That
> will use substantially less option ROM space, which might work around
> whatever the problem is in the BIOS.
>
> Michael