From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Horace Michael <horace.michael@gmx.com>
To: development@lists.ipfire.org
Subject: IPFire install over PXE
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 21:38:38 +0300
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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"

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

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.




Printscreens and additional details on forum:
http://forum.ipfire.org/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=15250#p100110



Best regards,
Horace 




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