[ipxe-devel] Loading Bootrom via bios-pxe to avoid zeroing mac-address?

[Oliver Rath]

Hi list,

for many cards there are bootroms available with ipxe. Is it possible
(and does it make sense) to chainload this boot"rom" via bios-pxe rather
than the undionly.kpxe?

Background: The realtek gbit-cards 8111E (not sure yet for the name,
esp. for the last letter "E") gets his firmware dynamicly from bios
while powering on the machine. After this - I guess - the OS (here:
win8) tries to upload a "better" firmware to the card, which fails. Then
the iSCSI-booted client tries to reboot. The NIC finds (or doesnt?) his
broken firmware and resets his mac-address to 00:00:00:00:00:00 for the
next pxe-boot. This I want to avoid.

Any suggestions beside my own?

Tfh!
Oliver