[ipxe-devel] IPXE and parallels on MAC

[Patel, Kalpesh, US]

Hi Robin.

Thanks for you reply. Please see in-line responses.

On 4/16/14 9:36 AM, "Robin Smidsrød" <robin at smidsrod.no> wrote:

>On 07.04.2014 19:31, Patel, Kalpesh wrote:
>> I've tried various means and methods to create IPXE boot
>> disk but all of them behave same in Parallels, namely it hangs soon
>> after it initiates first download.  I tried the one that is available
>> at http://boot.ipxe.org/ipxe.iso, I've download source and built from it
>> as well and others but no luck. This leads me to suspect network driver
>> code to be the culprit.
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>Then you should try to step through the tests in
>http://ipxe.org/dev/driver inside Parallels and figure out where it
>actually fails, so that it's possible to focus on the thing breaking.

I was looking a bit directed guidance here. I believe the issues lies
within the link interruption area of this. Michael has provided necessary
information to troubleshoot this (narrowed it to be buffer overflow) .
  
>Also, you haven't told us what virtual (networking) hardware is used
>under Parallels. If you can try another VNIC then maybe you'll have
>better luck.

My apology if the screenshots didn't capture the NIC type. It is detected
as 82545em. Parallels, unlike VMWare, doesn't offer option on type of VNIC
that can be selected. So I am stuck here, unfortunately.

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