[ipxe-devel] Could not configure console: Error 0x7f4ce08e

[Linus Lüssing]

One extra line of information now:

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http://fritz.nobreakspace.org/pxe/menu.ipxe... ok
http://fritz.nobreakspace.org/pxe/splash.png... ok
EFIFB could not locate graphics output protocol: Error 0x7f4ce08e (http://ipxe.org/7f4ce08e)
Could not configure console: Error 0x7f4ce08e (http://ipxe.org/7f4ce08e)
Could not boot image: Error 0x7f4ce08e (http://ipxe.org/7f4ce08e)
No more network devices
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Cheers, Linus


On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 04:39:23PM +0100, Thomas Miletich wrote:
> Hi,
> that error code(0x7f4ce08e) indicates that the iPXE EFI framebuffer
> driver is having some trouble interacting with EFI.
> 
> Could you please build iPXE with debugging for efi_fbcon enabled(e.g.
> make <your-ipxe-target>.efi DEBUG=efi_fbcon).
> This should print some more detailed error messages.
> 
> Thomas
> 
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing at c0d3.blue> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > So having this iMac 2007 boots an ipxe.efi through Clonezilla just
> > fine. That iPXE is then able to successfully fetch the boot.ipxe
> > and menu.ipxe configuration from a server just fine, however the
> > ipxe.efi seems to dislike the console command:
> >
> > -----
> > http://fritz.nobreakspace.org/pxe/menu.ipxe... ok
> > Could not configure console: Error 0x7f4ce08e (http://ipxe.org/7f4ce08e)
> > Could not boot image: Error 0x7f4ce08e (http://ipxe.org/7f4ce08e)
> > No more network devices
> > -----
> >
> > It seems like it dislikes the following entry in the menu.ipxe:
> >
> > -----
> > console --picture http://fritz.nobreakspace.org/pxe/splash.png
> > -----
> >
> > ipxe.efi is built with CONSOLE_CMD, IMAGE_PNG, CONSOLE_SERIAL and
> > CONSOLE_FRAMEBUFFER.
> >
> > In the same ipxe build directory I created an undionly.kpxe and
> > that one is able to use the menu.ipxe with the background image on
> > a normal desktop PC with a 64-bit AMD Sempron just fine.
> >
> > Cheers, Linus
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