[ipxe-devel] have you tested grub-efi 2 on ipxe boot

[Jarrod Johnson]

Could you try with
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xcat/files/yum/xcat-dep/elilo-xcat-3.14-4.noarch.rpm/downloadthat
version of elilo with elilo config written to boot the image?

e.g.:
default="xCAT"
delay=0

image=/tftpboot/xcat/netboot/centos6.4/x86_64/kvm//kernel
   label="xCAT"
   initrd=/tftpboot/xcat/netboot/centos6.4/x86_64/kvm//initrd-stateless.gz
   append="imgurl=http://%N:80//install/netboot/centos6.4/x86_64/kvm/rootimg.gz
XCAT=%N:3001 NODE=n8  console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200 BOOTIF=%B"

BTW, is this ipxe compiled with the driver for the nic specifically, or
trying to chainload from pxe?  If the latter, ipxe would need:
https://git.ipxe.org/vendor/xcat/ipxe.git/commitdiff/73d1ff05b058a2507fda0119825715fa2253d722
https://git.ipxe.org/vendor/xcat/ipxe.git/commitdiff/f411dcea1ce12ddcdfafa3fa2a89566a16f86bce



On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 1:16 PM, James A. Peltier <jpeltier at sfu.ca> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> | On 29/10/13 16:56, James A. Peltier wrote:
> | > | What's the exact error message?
> | >
> | > Could not select:  Exec format error (http://ipxe.org/2e008001)
> | > Booting Failed.
> |
> | It looks as though the CentOS 6 kernels are built without support for
> | booting as an EFI binary.  I think the relevant kernel configuration
> | option is CONFIG_EFI_STUB.
> |
> | Michael
>
>
> When booting using the CD images, for which there is only one image, these
> kernels boot fine.  However, at that point it's booting using BOOTX64.EFI
> and not the images directly.  This would indicate to me, a neophyte, that
> the images require something else to be "toggled" in order to notice that
> they are booting on an EFI system.
>
> I cannot however, get iPXE to chainload the BOOTX64.EFI stuff properly.
>  The boot process starts, the countdown occurs to install CentOS as is
> defined in the BOOTX64.conf file and then it complains that "a kernel must
> be loaded first".  I hacked around this by adding the (nd) parameters to
> the front of it at which point it loaded the kernel and initrd and then
> just hung there.
>
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