[ipxe-devel] Issue when booting linux kernels when in UEFI mode

[James A. Peltier]

----- Original Message -----
| On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 10:00 PM, James A. Peltier <jpeltier at sfu.ca> wrote:
| >
| >
| > ----- Original Message -----
| > | Hi All,
| > |
| > | A few months ago I installed a bunch of UEFI based machines using iPXE
| > | and
| > | about a few days ago I tried and now systems in UEFI mode won't boot, but
| > | when in BIOS mode they boot just fine.  Basically, the system downloads
| > | the
| > | initrd and kernel and just hangs there.
| > |
| 
| I can confirm this, doing chain http://boot.ipxe.org/ipxe.efi gives version
| 145a
| and then trying to boot linux with a similar script just hangs (using
| http://b800.org/sysr/sysrcd.ipxe)
| While a older version works fine.
| 
| Chaining into ipxe.efi from ipxe.efi (145a) still works fine.
| 
| Not sure if I can find the time for a git bisect right now.
| 
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Thanks for a secondary confirmation.  I tried this on three difference models of Dell hardware which made me think it was a regression.  I'll wait for a fix.

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