[gPXE] hang after "gPXE (PCI 08:00.0) Starting execution".

Jerome Ibanes jibanes at gmail.com
Sun Apr 18 12:21:52 EDT 2010


Stefan,

> We can get an idea of how gPXE has been loaded and hooked into the
> boot process if you send the first line printed by the gPXE option
> ROM.

gPXE (http://etherboot.org) - 08:00.01 7B40 PCI3.00 PnP BBS PMM CD80

gPXE (PCI 08:00.01) starting execution
gPXE initialising devices...

gPXE 1.0.0 -- Open Source Boot Firmware -- http://etherboot.org
Features: AoE HTTP iSCSI DNS TFTP bzImage COMBOOT ELF Multiboot NBI PXE PXEXT

gPXE> autoboot
net0: 00:04:23:d1:d7:72 on PCI08:00.0 (open)
 [Link:up, TX:0 TXE:0 RX:0 RXE:0]
DHCP (net0 00:04:23:d1:d7:72).... ok
net0: 192.168.1.41/255.255.255.0
Booting from root path
"iscsi:192.168.1.42::::iqn.2010-04.drawterm.com:iscsiboot.xp
Registered as BIOS drive 0x80
Booting from BIOS drive 0x80

However, if I didn't press CTRL+B, it would simply "hang" when I boot
from the Network Adapter.

> If you are able to test out a few ROMs we can hopefully discover where
> things are going wrong.  Do you want to try debugging this issue?

Most certainly.


Jerome Ibanes


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