[gPXE] Problems with gPXE, UNDI and VirtualBox

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars at oddbit.com> wrote:
>>  I'll give it a shot with debugging enabled.
>
> With the set of debugging options you suggested, the output looks like this:
>
> UNDINIC 0x1521c using UNDI 0xe01cfcd4
> PXEPARENT PXENV_UNDI_STARTUP failed: Error 0x00000063
> PXEPARENT parameters at 999d:173c length 0x02, entry point at 9e10:0104
> PXEPARENT parameters provided:
> 999d173c : 00 00                                           : ..
> PXEPARENT parameters returned:
> 999d173c : 63 00                                           : c.
>
> gPXE 1.0.1 -- Open Source Boot Firmware -- http://etherboot.org
> Features: AoE HTTP iSCSI DNS TFTP bzImage COMBOOT ELF Multiboot PXE PXEXT
>
> No more network devices

According to the PXE specification
(http://www.pix.net/software/pxeboot/archive/pxespec.pdf):

#define PXENV_STATUS_UNDI_CANNOT_INITIALIZE_NIC 0x63

Are you sure pxelinux.0 works in exactly the same VM?  I'm thinking
their might be a difference in the VM's configuration that explains
this.

Stefan