[ipxe-devel] UNDI Memory Error

[Alex Davies]

That replicates my problem exactly, but I can't remove the first step :(

Thanks for confirming, does anyone have an idea of a fix?

Is it possible to configure iPXE to show a menu, one option of which is to
load pxelinux from iPXE?

Thanks,

Alex

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On Feb 29, 2012 3:39 PM, "Gabriel Barazer" <gabriel at oxeva.fr> wrote:

> Hi Alex,
>
> We were seeing the exact same problem in our setup which was to boot
> pxelinux from the original PXE stack, then chain load iPXE from the
> PXElinux stack. We managed to solve the problem by removing the PXElinux
> step and directly booting to iPXE.
>
> We are also using recent Dell servers with the same PXE boot agent.
>
> Gabriel
>
> On 29 févr. 2012, at 16:34, Alex Davies wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > There was a message last summer (below) to this list discussing an
> > error using undionly.kpxe with recent Broadcom cards, starting
> > Broadcom NetXtreme Ethernet Boot Agent v6.0.11. I see exactly these
> > symptoms with pretty much all of my recent-ish Dell servers.
> >
> > Does anybody have any suggestions on how best to fix / get around this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Alex
> >
> > --
> >
> > From: John Julien [mailto:john at julienfamily.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 5:43 PM
> > To: ipxe-devel at lists.ipxe.org
> > Subject: UNDI Memory Error
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've come across an issue using the UNDI driver of the Broadcom 5709C
> card.
> > I've been using the UDNI driver with no problems until recently I started
> > getting the message "Try to free Memory without Signature"  Utilizing
> > different hardware vendors and through many trial and error tests I
> believe
> > I've narrowed the issue down to something that was introduced in the
> > Broadcom NetXtreme Ethernet Boot Agent v6.0.11 .
> >
> >
> >
> > Here is a copy of my console with some extra debug output from iPXE.
> You
> > can ignore the "Getting ready to load into memory" message.  That's
> > something I added to the source to try and track down the exact line of
> code
> > the failure was occurring at which I found to be line 00097 of
> > arch/i386/drivers/net/undirom.c <http://dox.ipxe.org/undirom_8c.html>
> > <http://dox.ipxe.org/undirom_8c_source.html> [code]
> >
> >
> >
> > 00097         /* Call loader */
> >
> > 00098         undi_loader_entry = undirom->loader_entry;
> >
> > 00099         __asm__ __volatile__ ( REAL_CODE ( "pushw %%ds\n\t"
> >
> > 00100                                            "pushw %%ax\n\t"
> >
> > 00101                                            "lcall
> > *undi_loader_entry\n\t"
> >
> > 00102                                            "addw $4, %%sp\n\t" )
> >
> > 00103                                : "=a" ( exit )
> >
> > 00104                                : "a" ( __from_data16 (
> &undi_loader )
> > )
> >
> > 00105                                : "ebx", "ecx", "edx", "esi", "edi",
> > "ebp" );
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Error Image: http://home.comcast.net/~john.julien/ipxe/ipxe_error.gif
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this or how I might
> narrow
> > it down any further?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > John
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