[gPXE] Issue 55

[Thomas Miletich]

Hi
Even if the UNDI driver works some times, in your setup it isn't
really supposed to work, and I'm surprised that it does. On the other
hand, the e1000 driver is supposed to work, and I think we should
debug that.

Please try a gPXE build with DEBUG=e1000. It's definitely helpful if
you can use the serial console because there will be a lot of output.
Please try 'dhcp net0' with the debugging options enabled and capture
all the output on the serial port. Wait until the output stops, or at
least slows down(that means dhcp is finished). Then please put your
capture at http://etherboot.pastebin.com/ or attach it as a file to a
mail

Thanks
Thomas

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Patrick Cervicek
<patrick at etherboot.spamtrap.hs-esslingen.de> wrote:
> Hello Shao,
>
> On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Miller, Shao wrote:
>
>> In regards to http://etherboot.org/support/issue55: To clarify, are you
>> trying to boot a gPXE USB storage device but use the UNDI driver?
>
> I did not choose a driver explicitly. So I have no idea which driver gPXE
> is using.
>
>> I would be surprised if you got any interfaces from 'ifstat' if they
>> weren't supported for use.  How many RJ-45 Ethernet jacks on the
>> computer in question?
>
> I have one jack.
> I tried again both Images and noticed different NIC-Names in the ifstat
> command
>
> 1) Image compiled with "make EMBEDDED_IMAGE=..."
>
> gPXE> ifstat
> net0 : 00:1c:25:xx:xx:xx on PCI00:19.0 (closed)
> [Link:up, TX:0 TXE.0 RX:0 RXE:0]
>
> gPXE> dhcp net0
> .... Could not configure net0: Connection timed out (0x4c106035)
> gPXE> ifstat
> net0 : 00:1c:25:xx:xx:xx on PCI00:19.0 (open)
> [Link:up, TX:0 TXE.0 RX:84 RXE:0]
>
>
> 2) Image compiled with "make EMBEDDED_IMAGE=...
> DEBUG=multiboot,undi,undinet,undiload,undirom"
>
> gPXE> ifstat
> net0: 00:1c:25:xx:xx:xx on UNDI-PCI00:19.0 (closed)
> [Link:up, TX:0 TXE.0 RX:0 RXE:0]
> gPXE>  dhcp net0
> UNDINIC 0x7cdbc opended
> .... OK
> gPXE> ifstat
> net0: 00:1c:25:xx:xx:xx on UNDI-PCI00:19.0 (open)
> [Link:up, TX:3 TXE.0 RX:187 RXE:0]
>
>
> Patrick
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