Unable to boot EFI machine (seems to loop through iPXE)

[danderson]

Unable to boot EFI machine (seems to loop through iPXE)

[jiphex]

Additionally, I notice from the log that it shows "Ignoring packet from 24:6e:96:78:44:40 (172.16.4.35:4011): packet is DHCPREQUEST, not DHCPDISCOVER", however a response is sent on udp/4011 containing the TFTP filename ("24:...../7")

[jiphex]

I’ve realised this is running from the container images on quay.io which seem to be a bit outdated so I’ll try this with a newly built image when I get a chance.

[danderson]

Ah, yeah, the quay.io images aren't maintained any more. Can you point me to where you found them, so I can remove those references? I should probably also delete the images, but first I want to remove links to them.

As for your problem... If you can reproduce it on a current build of pixiecore, I'm kinda out of ideas. Your firmware got past the most "difficult" bit, from the POV of firmware bugs: it got a network config and grabbed the correct file from TFTP. From there, it should be really smooth sailing, because iPXE is in control and it has nice and predictable behavior.

I did change the exact chainloading mechanics for pixiecore a short time ago, to work around yet more bugs in different firmware, so it's possible you just got unlucky with the version you were using. Let's see if the pixiecore from Docker Hub does the right thing for you.

[jiphex]

Thanks a lot, I’ll try it with the Docker Hub image tomorrow. The Quay image is linked from
https://github.com/google/netboot/tree/master/pixiecore/README.md

[jiphex]

I seem to get the same errors with the danderson/pixiecore image from the Docker Hub, but it seems like the builds of that image have been failing? https://hub.docker.com/r/danderson/pixiecore/builds/

[jiphex]

After rebuilding the Docker image myself from the latest sources, the systems I've been having trouble with both seem to boot without issues.

I had to add a glide.yaml file to get the Dockerfile to build.

[danderson]

Doh, sounds like I broke the continuous build when I switched to Go module vendoring, and didn't notice. Stupid :(. I'll file a bug to fix that, thanks for figuring it out!

[jiphex]

FWIW I think the image builds appear to be working to the Docker image pixiecore/pixiecore:master via CircleCI, but that image isn’t mentioned in the readme