From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
To: development@lists.ipfire.org
Subject: Re: IPFire install over PXE
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 17:03:53 -0400
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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=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/=C2=A0
> Unable to locate 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 )=C2=A0
> 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 =3D text menu - menu.c32.=C2=A0
>=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
> =C2=A0 menu default
> =C2=A0 text help
> =C2=A0 The default graphical boot menu.
> =C2=A0 endtext
> =C2=A0 menu label Graphical menu
> =C2=A0 kernel vesamenu.c32
> =C2=A0 append menu.cfg?arch=3Di586&platform=3Dpcbios
>=20
> label text
> =C2=A0 menu label Text menu
> =C2=A0 text help
> =C2=A0 Use this menu if the graphical menu does not work on your system.
> =C2=A0 endtext
> =C2=A0 kernel menu.c32
> =C2=A0 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
> 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.
>=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 changes 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=C2=A0

Best,
-Michael

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