Good morning, Tested, here are the results: 1. Laptop booting ipxe.kpxe from "latesl" folder available at http://mirror0.ipfire.org/releases/ipfire-boot/latest/ - ALL OK. Even more - I see the message for activating the hidden menu defined in premenu.cfg. 2. SBC (PCEngines APU1C2) - booting ipxe.kpxe from http://mirror0.ipfire.org/releases/ipfire-boot/v1.0/ - during the timeout from premenu.cfg I can press any key and setect TEXT submenu (the one that uses menu.c32) - after that I can select "Install with serial console..." - ALL OK (no duplicated characters) 3. SBC (PCEngines APU1C2) - booting ipxe.kpxe from http://mirror0.ipfire.org/releases/ipfire-boot/v1.0/ - no key pressed during timeout message from premenu.cfg - I am redirected to TEXT menu from where I can select "Install with serial console..." - ALL OK (no duplicated characters) Steps 2 and 3 repeteated with ipxe.kpxe from "latest" - ALL works fine except some duplicated characters while loading cfg files and pxelinux.0 from boot.ipfire.org. Dropped a request to PCEngine to check their BIOS for that duplicated characters thing. But I can also live with this behavior... Many thanks for quick solution! Best regards, Horace -----Original Message----- From: Michael Tremer [mailto:michael.tremer(a)ipfire.org] Sent: 25 august 2016 0:04 To: Horace Michael ; development(a)lists.ipfire.org Subject: Re: IPFire install over PXE Hi Horace, On Wed, 2016-08-24 at 21:38 +0300, Horace Michael wrote: > Hi all, > After several tests (using a normal PC but also a SBC with no > videocard - > APU1C2 from PCEngines) on installing IPFIre over PXE I’ve ended up > several possible faults that lead to PXE not working: > > Point A. > pxelinux.0 points to a wrong server: server returns "502 Bad Gateway" I have seen that bug before but couldn't find where that URL was in the short time that I had available. But I found it now and fixed it :) http://git.ipfire.org/?p=ipfire.org.git;a=commitdiff;h=e7c9ed3cc22f028750a6433a830eab585b9c32fc > Here are the outputs: > > > TFTP prefix: http://boot.dev.ipfire.org/ Unable to locate > configuration file > > Boot failed: press a key to retry, or wait for reset... > ......... > > > Point B. > Premenu.cfg loaded by menu.gpxe (http://boot.ipfire.org/menu.gpxe ) > has default menu the vesa menu and the submenu that should allow me to > select between vesa and text are declared hidden. Therefore I can't > select the text interface when I am booting from an SBC without video > card - only option being the serial console = text menu - menu.c32. > > Extract from premenu.cfg: > > menu hidden > timeout 30 > > menu title Select menu type > menu autoboot Press any key for options or wait # second{,s}... > > label vesa > menu default > text help > The default graphical boot menu. > endtext > menu label Graphical menu > kernel vesamenu.c32 > append menu.cfg?arch=i586&platform=pcbios > > label text > menu label Text menu > text help > Use this menu if the graphical menu does not work on your system. > endtext > kernel menu.c32 > append menu.cfg?arch=i586&platform=pcbios Actually the BIOS should tell the menu that it doesn't support graphics AFAIK. > > Point C. > Old .kpxe files from v1.0 folder > (http://mirror0.ipfire.org/releases/ipfire-boot/v1.0/) don’t duplicate > the characters on screen while the other .kpxe files (including the > ones from latest - > http://mirror0.ipfire.org/releases/ipfire-boot/latest/ - generate > duplicate characters after loading the .kpxe and download from > boot.ipfire.org starts. > We discovered that this is a bug of the BIOS of the APU. On other systems that worked fine. I think by now this could be a little outdated. If you need sources for our changes and want to update the loader, please have a look here: http://git.ipfire.org/?p=oddments/ipfire-netboot.git;a=summary Patches are always welcome :) > Printscreens and additional details on forum: > http://forum.ipfire.org/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=15250#p100110 > > > > Best regards, > Horace Best, -Michael