[ipxe-devel] Issue with Realtek card and iPXE

[Michael]

On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Michael Brown <mbrown at fensystems.co.uk>wrote:

> On Sunday 02 Sep 2012 19:26:32 Michael wrote:
> > I have a few boxes that I net boot using gpxe including one box with a
> > realtek card. Under Linux, it shows up as:
> >
> > 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
> RTL8111/8168B
> > PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03)
> >
> > Using gpxe 1.0.1, it would fail to boot with the message “initialising
> > devices…". This is also reflected in the etherboot wiki:
> > http://etherboot.org/wiki/hardwareissues. However, I used the
> rom-o-matic
> > to build a 1.0.1+ version of undionly and it has worked well on this
> > motherboard for at least a year. I assumed the issue was resolved.
> >
> > So today, when I upgraded to iPXE, I was a little surprised to see this
> > error message return.  Does anyone have any suggestions why it would work
> > in gpxe 1.0.1+, but not with a current version of ipxe?
> >
> > What is the best way to debug this?
>
> You can try
>
>   http://ipxe.org/howto/bisect
>
> to track down the commit which caused the regression, assuming that you can
> identify an old commit which works.
>
> I'm assuming that you're using undionly.kpxe.  You could try using the
> native
> driver for Realtek cards instead: build "ipxe.pxe" instead of
> "undionly.kpxe".
>


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.

You are on fire today!

Thanks again,

Michael
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