From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Horace Michael To: development@lists.ipfire.org Subject: RE: IPFire install over PXE Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 07:52:34 +0300 Message-ID: <001101d1fe8c$7fcd42d0$7f67c870$@gmx.com> In-Reply-To: <1472072633.2134.4.camel@ipfire.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============4172632596465179154==" List-Id: --===============4172632596465179154== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 mess= age for activating the hidden menu defined in premenu.cfg.=20 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 c= an 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 prem= enu.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.=20 Dropped a request to PCEngine to check their BIOS for that duplicated charact= ers 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]=20 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=20 > videocard - > APU1C2 from PCEngines) on installing IPFIre over PXE I=E2=80=99ve ended up = > several possible faults that lead to PXE not working: >=20 > 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=3Dipfire.org.git;a=3Dcommitdiff;h=3De7c9ed3cc22f0287= 50a6433a830eab585b9c32fc > Here are the outputs: >=20 >=20 > TFTP prefix: http://boot.dev.ipfire.org/ Unable to locate=20 > configuration file >=20 > Boot failed: press a key to retry, or wait for reset... > ......... >=20 >=20 > Point B. > Premenu.cfg loaded by menu.gpxe (http://boot.ipfire.org/menu.gpxe )=20 > has default menu the vesa menu and the submenu that should allow me to=20 > select between vesa and text are declared hidden. Therefore I can't=20 > select the text interface when I am booting from an SBC without video=20 > card - only option being the serial console =3D text menu - menu.c32. >=20 > Extract from premenu.cfg: >=20 > menu hidden > timeout 30 >=20 > menu title Select menu type > menu autoboot Press any key for options or wait # second{,s}... >=20 > label vesa > menu default > text help > The default graphical boot menu. > endtext > menu label Graphical menu > kernel vesamenu.c32 > append menu.cfg?arch=3Di586&platform=3Dpcbios >=20 > 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=3Di586&platform=3Dpcbios Actually the BIOS should tell the menu that it doesn't support graphics AFAIK. >=20 > Point C. > Old .kpxe files from v1.0 folder > (http://mirror0.ipfire.org/releases/ipfire-boot/v1.0/) don=E2=80=99t duplic= ate=20 > the characters on screen while the other .kpxe files (including the=20 > ones from latest -=20 > http://mirror0.ipfire.org/releases/ipfire-boot/latest/ - generate=20 > duplicate characters after loading the .kpxe and download from=20 > boot.ipfire.org starts. >=20 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 c= hanges and want to update the loader, please have a look here: http://git.ipfire.org/?p=3Doddments/ipfire-netboot.git;a=3Dsummary Patches are always welcome :) > Printscreens and additional details on forum: > http://forum.ipfire.org/viewtopic.php?f=3D51&t=3D15250#p100110 >=20 >=20 >=20 > Best regards, > Horace Best, -Michael --===============4172632596465179154==--