[gPXE] Problem Invoking gpxe from syslinux

[Ben Derstine]

Hi Shao,

Thank you for replying.  Here is the information you requested:

Make command:   make bin/gpxe.lkrn  for syslinux,  make bin/gpxe.iso for
CD 
Building on Ubuntu 9.10  gpxe version 1.0.0
Issue is happening on two models of Dell Optiplexs- 755 and 960.  The
output of 'show net0/busid' is 01:80:86:10:BD
Both NICs are Intel 825XX Gigabit 

I actually tried booting from an additional model (an older Dell with a
Broadcom NIC) and it worked.  So the problem seems to be isolated to the
Intel 825xx chipset.  The iso version of gpxe can somehow handle this
but the syslinux build can't.  Wouldn't they each be built with the
exact same driver set? 

Ben 


-----Original Message-----
From: Shao Miller [mailto:Shao.Miller at yrdsb.edu.on.ca] 
Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2010 6:14 PM
To: Ben Derstine
Cc: gpxe at etherboot.org
Subject: Re: [gPXE] Problem Invoking gpxe from syslinux

Good day Ben,

In regards to your gPXE .lkrn build target being loaded by Syslinux and 
not reporting any network interfaces: What does your 'make' command look

like when you build the "gpxe.lkrn" file?  What version of gPXE are you 
building?  What are the PCI VENdor and DEVice IDs for the NIC?  You 
should be able to find this out from your working gPXE .iso by doing 
'show net0/busid' from the gPXE control-B CLI, or using 'lspci' under
Linux.

- Shao Miller