[gPXE] trouble with zotac zbox id11 w/ realtek gige

[Gene Cumm]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 14:35, Ayman El-Khashab <ayman at elkhashab.com> wrote:
> i've got this little box that I'd like to run gpxe on and boot iscsi.
> It is a zotac zbox id11 with a realtek gig-e controller and an AMI
> bios.
>
> I've build the undionly.kpxe from version 1.1 and 1.0 and both have
> the same result.  When it begins to boot it gets to "initialising
> device" and then hangs.  At that point only a power cycle will bring
> it back.  I did wade through the config, but did not see anything
> obvious aside from removing many of the features.
>
> I did try using gpxelinux.0 from syslinux-4.03 and it did make it
> past that point.  Not sure if I can use that though to boot this
> machine as a diskless client.

1) gpxelinux.0 from Syslinux-4.03 is gPXE-1.0.0 undionly.kkpxe plus
pxelinux.0 and a script to run pxelinux.0.  (notice .kkpxe versus
.kpxe; some systems have issues with .kpxe).

2) With proper configuration you can definitely use gPXE, PXELINUX or
both to make a diskless client

-- 
-Gene