<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Michael Brown <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mbrown@fensystems.co.uk" target="_blank">mbrown@fensystems.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Sunday 02 Sep 2012 19:26:32 Michael wrote:<br>
> I have a few boxes that I net boot using gpxe including one box with a<br>
> realtek card. Under Linux, it shows up as:<br>
><br>
> 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B<br>
> PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03)<br>
><br>
> Using gpxe 1.0.1, it would fail to boot with the message “initialising<br>
> devices…". This is also reflected in the etherboot wiki:<br>
> <a href="http://etherboot.org/wiki/hardwareissues" target="_blank">http://etherboot.org/wiki/hardwareissues</a>. However, I used the rom-o-matic<br>
> to build a 1.0.1+ version of undionly and it has worked well on this<br>
> motherboard for at least a year. I assumed the issue was resolved.<br>
><br>
> So today, when I upgraded to iPXE, I was a little surprised to see this<br>
> error message return. Does anyone have any suggestions why it would work<br>
> in gpxe 1.0.1+, but not with a current version of ipxe?<br>
><br>
> What is the best way to debug this?<br>
<br>
</div></div>You can try<br>
<br>
<a href="http://ipxe.org/howto/bisect" target="_blank">http://ipxe.org/howto/bisect</a><br>
<br>
to track down the commit which caused the regression, assuming that you can<br>
identify an old commit which works.<br>
<br>
I'm assuming that you're using undionly.kpxe. You could try using the native<br>
driver for Realtek cards instead: build "ipxe.pxe" instead of "undionly.kpxe".<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"></span></blockquote><div><br><br>I gave the ipxe.pxe image a try and it is working fine. I even tried it in combination with iscsi from my other thread and that is working too.<br><br>You are on fire today!<br>
<br>Thanks again,<br><br>Michael<br> <br></div></div>