[ipxe-devel] Sanboot hangs on HP BL460c G7

[Gavin Williams]

Andrew

Many thanks for your reply.

Have run through the steps outlined on your referenced link, and can confirm that it works like a charm :)
Had to hack it together outside of Razor model, but seems to work ok :)

Now to see if can get it integrated into Razor in some way :)
Unless there's more investigation we can do to try and get sanboot to work with the local disks?

Cheers
Gavin

From: Andrew Bobulsky [mailto:rulerof at gmail.com]
Sent: 08 January 2013 15:36
To: Gavin Williams
Cc: ipxe-devel at lists.ipxe.org
Subject: Re: [ipxe-devel] Sanboot hangs on HP BL460c G7

On Jan 8, 2013, at 10:10 AM, Gavin Williams <gavin.williams at weareact.com<mailto:gavin.williams at weareact.com>> wrote:

Just tried 'sanboot' from an ipxe shell, and got the following:
'Could not describe SAN device 0x80: No such device (http://ipxe.org/2c85203b)'

Had a look at the page referenced, but didn't make much sense to me...
I'm fairly sure I'm running the latest version...

Any ideas?

Cheers
Gavin

From: Gavin Williams
Sent: 08 January 2013 14:43
To: Andrew Bobulsky
Cc: ipxe-devel at lists.ipxe.org<mailto:ipxe-devel at lists.ipxe.org>
Subject: RE: [ipxe-devel] Sanboot hangs on HP BL460c G7

Andrew

Havent tried sanhook or sanunhook... Can do though...

And no, I don't get any 'registered... ' output...

Just get:
'Booting from SAN Device 0x80'.
Have attached a screenshot of the console...

This is using the following ipxe script:
#!ipxe
echo Razor <%= @label %> model boot_call
echo Installation node UUID : <%= node.uuid %>
echo Installation image UUID: <%= @image_uuid %>
echo Active Model node state: <%= @current_state %>
echo Continuing local boot

sleep 3
sanboot --no-describe --drive 0x80

Any ideas???

Cheers
Gavin
<snip>

Oh okay, you're using sanboot against a local drive.  That does usually work, but ironically enough, you're the second fellow in as many days to have the exact same problem with a Proliant server here on the list ;)

There was a similar issue regarding virtualbox as well on the list in the past few days, and I typed up a workaround to the problem as an application note on the wiki yesterday, and would love to be able to either verify that it works on other systems, or at least confirm that I should come up with some more options!  Care to give it a try? :)

http://ipxe.org/appnote/work_around_bios_halting_on_ipxe_exit

Cheers,
Andrew Bobulsky

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