[ipxe-devel] Could not find hard disk in EFI mode

Christian Nilsson nikize at gmail.com
Sun Jun 28 06:02:00 UTC 2020


To bad your firmware don't handle that case well.

As workaround you could start grub or other bootloader that supports hard
drives.
You can even load and start grub from disk via file:// in efi mode, it does
require some more hacks tho. But you will figure those out along the way :)

On Sun, 28 Jun 2020, 13:56 Ali Shirvani, <aj.shirvani at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Christian, I tried `exit` and `exit 1` both return to the UEFI menu
> of my system.
>
> On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 9:21 AM Christian Nilsson <nikize at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 28 Jun 2020, 13:35 Ali Shirvani, <aj.shirvani at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> I created a bootable USB with ipxe.efi. I can boot my system in UEFI
>>> mode and that USB stick, but when I try to sanboot from hard drive I got
>>> following error:
>>>
>>> `Boot from SAN device 0x80 failed, no such device`
>>>
>>> Also I added some print statements to the `efi_block.c` and I found that
>>> in `efi_block_boot` sandev_find could not find the device.
>>>
>>> But I can boot my system with `sanboot` when I use BIOS instead of UEFI.
>>> Would you please help me to fix this?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Ali
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>>
>>
>>
>> Hi
>> iPXE is made for booting over network, the hack to use sanboot to boot
>> from disk is not something that you should take as "supported".
>> Use exit instead, see the FAQ in the forum as well.
>>
>>
>>
>>>
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