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

Christian Nilsson nikize at gmail.com
Tue Dec 13 19:38:49 UTC 2016


Just in case it was unclear: if undionly.kpxe is used then what is in
the intel.c driver does not matter since undionly means what it says,
only the PXE UNDI stack is use.

in case ipxe.pxe is used instead than that flag can make a difference
but so far I have only seen that flag affect link speed and not link
up, so on some intel nic that flag is needed to enable gigabit linkup
(sometimes but not always), otherwise it might end up on only 10mbit
link instead.

On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 8:13 PM, Richard Moore <rich at richud.com> wrote:
> Hi Esben,
>
> The git master (rom-o-matic) uses has this in intel.c
>
> PCI_ROM ( 0x8086, 0x15b7, "i219lm-2", "I219-LM (2)", 0 ),
>
> it probably needs to be
>
> PCI_ROM ( 0x8086, 0x15b7, "i219lm-2", "I219-LM (2)", INTEL_NO_PHY_RST ),
>
>
> ...otherwise it wont work in some machines with that chip (out of 4
> different types of HP machines I tested with, one needs INTEL_NO_PHY_RST and
> other three are ok)
>
>
> You will need to build yours from source (changing that line) and try it,
> rather than use rom-o-matic.
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Rich
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, 2016-12-13 at 15:08 +0000, Esben Storgaard Nielsen wrote:
>
> Hi again
>
>
> If i look in the net card setup menu, I can see a small diference
>
> T460P	PCI ID 8086/15B7/17AA/5050/31 	Don't work
> T460	PCI ID 8086/156F/17AA/2233/21	Works
>
>
> Med venlig hilsen / Kind regards,
>
> Esben Storgaard Nielsen
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Moore [mailto:rich at richud.com]
> Sent: 13. december 2016 15:18
> To: Esben Storgaard Nielsen <esn at solar.dk>
> Subject: Re: [ipxe-devel] I have a trouble booting iPXE from a specific
> laptop
>
> Check the net card's hardware  dev/ven are in here, src/drivers/net/intel.c
>
> Should be something like
>
>
> 	PCI_ROM ( 0x8086, 0x15a0, "i218lm-2", "I218-LM", INTEL_NO_PHY_RST ),
> 	PCI_ROM ( 0x8086, 0x15a1, "i218v-2", "I218-V", 0 ),
> 	PCI_ROM ( 0x8086, 0x15a2, "i218lm-3", "I218-LM", INTEL_NO_PHY_RST ),
> 	PCI_ROM ( 0x8086, 0x15a3, "i218v-3", "I218-V", INTEL_NO_PHY_RST ),
> 	PCI_ROM ( 0x8086, 0x15b7, "i219lm-2", "I219-LM (2)", INTEL_NO_PHY_RST ),
> 	PCI_ROM ( 0x8086, 0x15b8, "i219v-2", "I219-V (2)", 0 ),
>
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Rich
>
>
>
>
> 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,
>
>
>
>
>
>
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