[ipxe-devel] I have a trouble booting iPXE from a specific laptop

Tue Dec 13 13:21:39 UTC 2016

Hi Again

I still have some trouble bootin iPXE from 1 type of computer.
Lenovo tells me, that they can’t help because the net card isn’t on a compatibility list from iPXE.
That’s correct, http://ipxe.org/appnote/hardware_drivers

The net card used is an “Intel i219LM“

I use undionly.kpxe and use the site https://rom-o-matic.eu/ for building my file, and here is the net card is presented on the net card list.
So I think that the compatibility list isn’t updated.

I can see on the FAQ forum that the problem has being reported once before.
http://forum.ipxe.org/showthread.php?tid=7713&highlight=i219

I can’t see where I can try the suggestion, there is no option in the advance section on rom-o-matic.eu

Could you came with some suggestions, so I can get further with this task.

Med venlig hilsen / Kind regards,

Esben Storgaard Nielsen
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From: Christian Nilsson [mailto:nikize at gmail.com]
Sent: 25. november 2016 01:11
To: Esben Storgaard Nielsen <esn at solar.dk>
Cc: ipxe-devel at lists.ipxe.org
Subject: Re: [ipxe-devel] I have a trouble booting iPXE from a specific laptop

In the image it looks like you have BIOS doing PXE DHCP request, getting response and loading some version of ipxe.
After that you should have another DHCP request but this time from iPXE, is this second dhcp request seen by the dhcp server?

The ipxe in the image is missing the "git version id" please make sure you have the latest version of ipxe git master and that the git version id is shown when booting.

One thing that might be interesting is if you press ctrl-b to get the iPXE shell and then type dhcp enter followed by ifstat to get some info about nic driver and how it looks in regards to packets received and sent and any possible error.

You are using ipxe.pxe? have you tried undionly.kpxe instead?

/Christian

On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 11:37 AM, Esben Storgaard Nielsen <esn at solar.dk<mailto:esn at solar.dk>> wrote:
Hi

We using IPXE to boot our SCCM boot image, and its works very fine.

But now we got at strange issue, with a new Lenovo T460P laptop.

When we try booting PXE, I got a ip address, and it contact the iPXE server, and on the tftp log, we can see it sends the boot menu file, but nothing happens on the laptop.
When we use the T460 there is no problems.
And both computers have the same net card.

Any suggestions to solve my issue?

I have attached a picture of the failure computer.

Med venlig hilsen / Kind regards,

Esben Storgaard Nielsen
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