iPXE discussion forum

Hi,

I am seeing a transmit timed out whilst running iPX 1.0.0+ (7405) on an HPDL360 G5. I am trying to install CenotOS using iPXE. The setup works using a standard pxeboot over tftp.

The chip version is a bnx2-5708

I see the transmit timed out whilst loading vmlinuz from my boot media. I can see the GET request on the web server hosting my images.

GET /centos-el-6-6.4-x86_64/disc1/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz HTTP/1.1" 200 4043888 "-" "iPXE/1.0.0+ (7405)"

From the server being booted using iPXE I see

http:myimages/centos-el-6-6.4-x86_64/disc1/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz… transmit timed out
transmit timed out
transmit timed out
transmit timed out
transmit timed out
0%

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

The bnx2 driver is a bit flakey and is in need of a rewrite. There was a GSoC project to do that, but it was never finished. You could try the new driver located at http://ipxe.org/gsoc/bnx2 and report how it behaves using the test suite at http://ipxe.org/dev/driver. You should also try out the test suite on the existing driver and see where it fails. My guess is that your hardware is not working well with either driver. Your only option to get this to work right now is to use undionly.kpxe with chainloading to avoid iPXE's buggy driver.