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

[Christian Nilsson]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 10:18 PM, James A. Peltier <jpeltier at sfu.ca> wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> | On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 10:00 PM, James A. Peltier <jpeltier at sfu.ca> wrote:
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> | 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.
> |
> <snip>
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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.
>

Double checking my results and started a git bisect, 145a works fine
when building it myself, and now when testing ipxe.efi from
boot.ipxe.org it just works.

Maybe it is some kind of intermittent problem with the IPv6 changes
(don't see how since ipv6 is not enabled in default builds), but for
now I can't reproduce.anymore.