[ipxe-devel] Hyper-V G2 iPXE menu scrolling

[Andreas Hammarskjöld]

Can just confirm that this is an issue with Server 2012 and Windows 8 Hyper-V. It goes away with Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10.

Workaround, do as Michael says, use console command to reset the UI.

-----Original Message-----
From: ipxe-devel-bounces at lists.ipxe.org [mailto:ipxe-devel-bounces at lists.ipxe.org] On Behalf Of Michael Brown
Sent: den 14 mars 2016 00:19
To: shouldbe q931 <shouldbeq931 at gmail.com>; iPXE Developer List <ipxe-devel at ipxe.org>
Subject: Re: [ipxe-devel] Hyper-V G2 iPXE menu scrolling

On 13/03/16 22:22, shouldbe q931 wrote:
> When I boot with a G1 VM (or a BIOS PC), the menu works perfectly, I 
> don't have a UEFI physical device to test with at the moment, I have a 
> UEFI PC, but it doesn't have a UEFI gfx card in it, so boots BIOS 
> mode.
>
> After spending several hours trying to describe what I'm seeing,. I 
> gave up and did a screencapture instead https://youtu.be/sefWglT06RA

Try enabling CONSOLE_CMD (in config/general.h) and CONSOLE_FRAMEBUFFER (in config/console.h) and use a command such as "console -x 800 -y 600" 
to switch into a graphical framebuffer mode.  That should bypass the bizarre text window that the Hyper-V G2 firmware seems to have created.

Also, you should probably use iPXE's native Hyper-V network card driver
(netvsc) rather than the SNP driver.

Michael
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