Mac Mini EFI > PXE > Ubuntu LTSP?
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2014-04-23, 16:22
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Mac Mini EFI > PXE > Ubuntu LTSP?
My assignment is to get the Mac Minis to boot as thin clients for Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTSP. I have made some progress by doing the following:
Install a Mac OS Partition on a thumbdrive with rEFIt. http://refit.sourceforge.net/ Place an MSDOS FAT partition on the same thumbdrive with iPXE. http://ipxe.org/download This actually allowed me to utilize the rEFIt bootloader and start the SYSLINUX image pointing at the iPXE kernel. However, no network card was found. So I got the Device and Vendor ID from the Broadcom 57766-A1: Vendor ID: 0x14e4 Device ID: 0x1686 And added it to the file: /ipxe/src/drivers/net/tg3/tg3.c Which looks something like this: static struct pci_device_id tg3_nics[] = { PCI_ROM(0x14e4, 0x1644, "14e4-1644", "14e4-1644", 0), PCI_ROM(0x14e4, 0x1645, "14e4-1645", "14e4-1645", 0), PCI_ROM(0x14e4, 0x1646, "14e4-1646", "14e4-1646", 0), PCI_ROM(0x14e4, 0x1647, "14e4-1647", "14e4-1647", 0), PCI_ROM(0x14e4, 0x1648, "14e4-1648", "14e4-1648", 0), PCI_ROM(0x14e4, 0x164d, "14e4-164d", "14e4-164d", 0), PCI_ROM(0x14e4, 0x1653, "14e4-1653", "14e4-1653", 0), PCI_ROM(0x14e4, 0x1654, "14e4-1654", "14e4-1654", 0), PCI_ROM(0x14e4, 0x165d, "14e4-165d", "14e4-165d", 0), Recompiled the kernel and a rEFIt -> iPXE boot actually got the Link up on the network card and I can see the requests in the DHCP server logs. However, the iPXE command: ifstat shows 0 RX and 0 RXE. As if the response packets are not being captured. At this point I am dead in the water. So, My question is. How do I get these Mac Minis to perform a PXE boot of the Ubuntu LTSP 12.04.4 thin client? Any help would be appreciated. |
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Mac Mini EFI > PXE > Ubuntu LTSP? - charlescva - 2014-04-23 16:22
RE: Mac Mini EFI > PXE > Ubuntu LTSP? - Pretzel - 2014-05-13, 15:54
RE: Mac Mini EFI > PXE > Ubuntu LTSP? - robinsmidsrod - 2014-05-19, 08:24
RE: Mac Mini EFI > PXE > Ubuntu LTSP? - lumps - 2014-06-25, 22:01
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