[ipxe-devel] Query on UEFI iPXE boot

[Jarrod Johnson]

Instead of targeting *specifically* the device, I'd build snponly.efi.
This is akin to undionly.kkpxe.

I have successfully gotten it to work, but with some emulex firmware I've
been messing with iPXE is having difficulty doing DHCP with SNP while I see
no problems on any other nics (intel, broadcom, vmware's emulated intel,
couple of others).

xCAT when setting up chained UEFI boot constructs the following dhcp bit
(s/xNBA/iPXE/ unless using the xCAT branch):
host efitest1 {
  dynamic;
  hardware ethernet 42:8a:3b:42:a5:68;
        supersede server.ddns-hostname = "efitest1";
        supersede host-name = "efitest1";
        if option user-class-identifier = "xNBA" and option
             client-architecture = 00:00 {
          supersede server.always-broadcast = 01;
          supersede server.filename =
                  "http://${next-server}/tftpboot/xcat/xnba/nodes/efitest1";
        } elsif option user-class-identifier = "xNBA" and option
                client-architecture = 00:09 {
          supersede server.filename =
                                      "http://
${next-server}/tftpboot/xcat/xnba/nodes/efitest1.uefi";
        } elsif option client-architecture = 00:07 {
          supersede server.filename = "xcat/xnba.efi";
        } elsif option client-architecture = 00:00 {
          supersede server.filename = "xcat/xnba.kpxe";
        } else {
          supersede server.filename = "";
        }
}



On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 5:46 AM, <Sanjeev.Roy at emulex.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
> Do we have any readme that suggests how we can execute iPXE UEFI boot?
> We tried UEFI IPXE boot with  an Intel igb CNA. The device ID was 10c9. We
> built 808610c9.efi. However while trying the UEFI iPXE boot using the .efi
> file we could see that the client is able to successfully download the.efi
> file. The client hangs after that. It never tries to get the bootx64.efi
> (required for booting to the EFI mode) file after that.
>
> We were trying the UEFI boot with  Sles11sp164.
> Has anyone executed chain loading using iPXE in UEFI environment?
>
> Regards
> Sanjeev
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roy, Sanjeev
> Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2011 12:32 AM
> To: Michael Brown; ipxe-devel at lists.ipxe.org
> Subject: RE: [ipxe-devel] Query on UEFI iPXE boot
>
>
> Hi All,
> We tried UEFI IPXE boot with  an Intel igb CNA. The device ID was 10c9. We
> built 808610c9.efi. However while trying the UEFI iPXE boot using the .efi
> file we could see that the client is able to successfully download the.efi
> file. The client 808610c9hangs after that. It never tries to get the
> bootx64.efi (required for booting to the EFI mode) file after that.
>
> We were trying the UEFI boot with  Sles11sp164.
> Has anyone executed chain loading using iPXE in UEFI environment?
>
> Regards
> Sanjeev
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Brown [mailto:mbrown at fensystems.co.uk]
> Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2011 1:02 AM
> To: ipxe-devel at lists.ipxe.org
> Cc: Roy, Sanjeev
> Subject: Re: [ipxe-devel] Query on UEFI iPXE boot
>
> On Wednesday 14 Dec 2011 12:32:10 Sanjeev.Roy at emulex.com wrote:
> > We are using Emulex adapter.
> > We tried chainloading for EFI using iPXE similar to legacy boot, legacy
> > boot works fine.
> >
> > The configuration change in dhcpd.conf is
> > if exists user-class and option user-class = "iPXE" {
> >        filename "bootx64.efi"; # bootx64.efi is located @ tftp root
> > } else {
> >        filename "808610de.efi"; #808610de.efi is located @ tftp root
> > }
> > also tried with e1000e--r8169.efi and ipxe.efi instead of 808610de.efi
>
> 8086:10de is an Intel e1000 card.  You need to use the PCI IDs for your
> Emulex
> card instead.
>
> > Is there any specific way to generate the binary for Emulex adapter,
> which
> > is not been specified in e1000e_ich8lan.c, In this case how do we build
> > the driver image specific for this adapter.
>
> Emulex adapters are not (as far as I am aware) direct equivalents of Intel
> e1000 adapters.  You need to create an iPXE driver for Emulex adapters (or
> pay
> to have one created).
>
> Michael
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