iPXE booting latest PCengines alu board

Fri Jun 13 17:43:30 UTC 2014

iPXE> ifconf 
Configuring (net0 00:0d:b9:33:88:64)...... ok
iPXE> route
net0: 172.21.0.90/255.255.255.0 gw 172.21.0.1
iPXE> kernel http://nuc2/memdisk
http://nuc2/memdisk... ok
iPXE> kernel http://nuc2/memdisk iso
http://nuc2/memdisk... ok
iPXE> initrd http://nuc2/mfsbsd.iso
http://nuc2/mfsbsd.iso... ok 
iPXE> boot
MEMDISK 6.02 2013-10-13  Copyright 2001-2013 H. Peter Anvin et al
e820: 0000000000000000 000000000009fc00 1
e820: 000000000009fc00 0000000000000400 2
e820: 00000000000f0000 0000000000010000 2
e820: 0000000000100000 000000007e010000 1
e820: 000000007e110000 0000000000ef0000 2
e820: 00000000f8000000 0000000001000000 2
Ramdisk at 0x01b7d000, length 0x02483000
command line: iso
El Torito BVD sanity check failed.
El Torito boot catalog sanity check failed.
MEMDISK: Image seems to have fractional end cylinder
MEMDISK: Image appears to be truncated
Disk is hd96, 9347 K, C/H/S = 65535/255/15 (El Torito/El Torito), EDD on, rw
Using safe INT 15h access to high memory
Code 1860, meminfo 168, cmdline 4, stack 512
Total size needed = 2544 bytes, allocating 3K
Old dos memory at 0x9c400 (map says 0x9fc00), loading at 0x9b800
1588: 0x69f4  15E801: 0x3c00 0x00b7
INT 13 08: Failure, assuming this is the only drive
Drive probing gives drive shift limit: 0xe1
old: int13 = f000e3fe  int15 = f000f859  int1e = f0007244
new: int13 = 9b80000a  int15 = 9b8003fd  int1e = f0007244
Loading boot sector... booting…
(no output)

adding -h gets things a bit further.   I still think we’re fighting a serial console issue.
Maybe mfsbsd need rebuilding. (?)

iPXE> dhcp                               
Configuring (net0 00:0d:b9:33:88:64)...... ok
iPXE> route
net0: 172.21.0.90/255.255.255.0 gw 172.21.0.1
iPXE> kernel http://nuc2/memdisk iso -h
http://nuc2/memdisk... ok
iPXE> initrd http://nuc2/mfsbsd.iso
http://nuc2/mfsbsd.iso... ok 
iPXE> boot
MEMDISK 6.02 2013-10-13  Copyright 2001-2013 H. Peter Anvin et al
e820: 0000000000000000 000000000009fc00 1
e820: 000000000009fc00 0000000000000400 2
e820: 00000000000f0000 0000000000010000 2
e820: 0000000000100000 000000007e010000 1
e820: 000000007e110000 0000000000ef0000 2
e820: 00000000f8000000 0000000001000000 2
Ramdisk at 0x01b84000, length 0x0247c000
command line: iso -h
MEMDISK: Image seems to have fractional end cylinder
MEMDISK: Image appears to be truncated
Disk is hd96, 9340 K, C/H/S = 65535/255/15 (El Torito/El Torito), EDD on, rw
Using safe INT 15h access to high memory
Code 1860, meminfo 168, cmdline 7, stack 512
Total size needed = 2547 bytes, allocating 3K
Old dos memory at 0x9c400 (map says 0x9fc00), loading at 0x9b800
1588: 0x6a10  15E801: 0x3c00 0x00b8
INT 13 08: Failure, assuming this is the only drive
Drive probing gives drive shift limit: 0xe1
old: int13 = f000e3fe  int15 = f000f859  int1e = f0007244
new: int13 = 9b80000a  int15 = 9b8003fd  int1e = f0007244
Loading boot sector... booting...
CD Loader 1.2

Building the boot loader arguments
Looking up /BOOT/LOADER... Found
Relocating the loader and the BTX
Starting the BTX loader
(no output)

> On Jun 13, 2014, at 9:07 AM, Kamil Czekirda <kczekirda at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Please use iso raw option, it helps sometimes:
> 
> iPXE> kernel tftp://nuc2/memdisk
> iPXE> kernel tftp://nuc2/memdisk iso
> iPXE> initrd tftp://nuc2/mfsbsd.iso
> iPXE> boot
> 
> I suggest leave tftp protocol and download iso with http server.
> 
> 2014-06-13 12:34 GMT+02:00 Jim Thompson <jim at netgate.com>:
>> 
>>> On Jun 13, 2014, at 5:19 AM, Daniel Braniss <danny at cs.huji.ac.il> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Jun 13, 2014, at 12:52 PM, Kamil Czekirda <kczekirda at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Please try mfsbsd based on current (r266655):
>>>> 
>>>> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/socsvn/soc2014/kczekirda/pxe-fai-head/tools/mfsbsd-11.0-CURRENT-r266655-amd64.iso?view=co
>>>> 
>>>> example:
>>>> 
>>>> iPXE> dhcp
>>>> iPXE> kernel http://volt.iem.pw.edu.pl/~czekirdk/memdisk iso
>>>> iPXE> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/socsvn/soc2014/kczekirda/pxe-fai-head/tools/mfsbsd-11.0-CURRENT-r266655-amd64.iso?view=co
>>> 
>>> something missing in the line above
>>> 
>> 
>> yeah, and it’s not obvious.
>> 
>> fetch-ed the kernel and iso to a local freebsd 10-CURRENT machine (nuc2)
>> 
>> iPXE> kernel tftp://nuc2/memdisk
>> tftp://nuc2/memdisk... ok
>> iPXE> kernel tftp://nuc2/memdisk iso
>> tftp://nuc2/memdisk... ok
>> iPXE> initrd tftp://nuc2/mfsbsd.iso
>> tftp://nuc2/mfsbsd.iso... ok
>> iPXE> boot
>> MEMDISK 6.02 2013-10-13  Copyright 2001-2013 H. Peter Anvin et al
>> e820: 0000000000000000 000000000009fc00 1
>> e820: 000000000009fc00 0000000000000400 2
>> e820: 00000000000f0000 0000000000010000 2
>> e820: 0000000000100000 000000007e010000 1
>> e820: 000000007e110000 0000000000ef0000 2
>> e820: 00000000f8000000 0000000001000000 2
>> Ramdisk at 0x01b76000, length 0x0248a000
>> command line: iso
>> El Torito BVD sanity check failed.
>> El Torito boot catalog sanity check failed.
>> MEMDISK: Image seems to have fractional end cylinder
>> MEMDISK: Image appears to be truncated
>> Disk is hd96, 9354 K, C/H/S = 65535/255/15 (El Torito/El Torito), EDD on, rw
>> Using safe INT 15h access to high memory
>> Code 1860, meminfo 168, cmdline 4, stack 512
>> Total size needed = 2544 bytes, allocating 3K
>> Old dos memory at 0x9c400 (map says 0x9fc00), loading at 0x9b800
>> 1588: 0x69d8  15E801: 0x3c00 0x00b7
>> INT 13 08: Failure, assuming this is the only drive
>> Drive probing gives drive shift limit: 0xe1
>> old: int13 = f000e3fe  int15 = f000f859  int1e = f0007244
>> new: int13 = 9b80000a  int15 = 9b8003fd  int1e = f0007244
>> Loading boot sector... booting...
>> 
>> 