(2019-01-21 06:19)NiKiZe Wrote:  This post has little or no usefull information!

What is the _exact_ error message you get, full message, case sensitive!
It says:
iPXE(PCI XX:XX:XX) starting execution...00000000 FA000000 0000AA55
Installation failed...cannot continue.

What are you actually building?
I am actually trying to build an option rom that will work for the legacy boot.
Where are you uploading the ROM?
I am flashing it on the hardware
Have you tried with normal 32bit builds?
I have not tried that yet. I assumed that i would need x86_64 as a build target. Like i mentioned before the make command i am using is make bin-x86_64-pcbios/optionrom.rom. I have even tried with mrom the same problem occurs.
Have you tried a .usb build first and that boots ok on the same hardware?
No. i have not tried this yet. But when i built the x86_64-efi.optionrom.efirom that works just fine in the EFI mode. I am trying to build the optionrom for legacy mode boot and i am not sure what i am doing wrong.


One thing i did have to build my mrom/rom images was to do -fno-pie as without it my ipxe wwasnt even compiling.
So "\nInstallation failed - cannot continue\n" comes from
https://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/blob/3946aa9bac1b4a784924fab1693bfebfdd357438:/src/arch/x86/prefix/libprefix.S#l993
Which was introduced in https://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commitdiff/c4e8c40227ebb11361e066be96ed93927eedfbf4 which might give a few hints on what to check next.

(2019-01-21 08:39)rahuls551 Wrote:  

(2019-01-21 06:19)NiKiZe Wrote:  What is the _exact_ error message you get, full message, case sensitive!
It says:
iPXE(PCI XX:XX:XX) starting execution...00000000 FA000000 0000AA55
Installation failed...cannot continue.

What are you actually building?

I am actually trying to build an option rom that will work for the legacy boot.

(2019-01-21 08:39)rahuls551 Wrote:  

(2019-01-21 06:19)NiKiZe Wrote:  Where are you uploading the ROM?

I am flashing it on the hardware

(2019-01-21 08:39)rahuls551 Wrote:  

(2019-01-21 06:19)NiKiZe Wrote:  Have you tried with normal 32bit builds?

I have not tried that yet. I assumed that i would need x86_64 as a build target. Like i mentioned before the make command i am using is make bin-x86_64-pcbios/optionrom.rom. I have even tried with mrom the same problem occurs.

(2019-01-21 08:39)rahuls551 Wrote:  

(2019-01-21 06:19)NiKiZe Wrote:  Have you tried a .usb build first and that boots ok on the same hardware?

No. i have not tried this yet. But when i built the x86_64-efi.optionrom.efirom that works just fine in the EFI mode. I am trying to build the optionrom for legacy mode boot and i am not sure what i am doing wrong.

(2019-01-21 08:39)rahuls551 Wrote:  One thing i did have to build my mrom/rom images was to do -fno-pie as without it my ipxe wwasnt even compiling.

(2019-01-21 09:31)NiKiZe Wrote:  

(2019-01-21 08:39)rahuls551 Wrote:  

(2019-01-21 06:19)NiKiZe Wrote:  What is the _exact_ error message you get, full message, case sensitive!
It says:
iPXE(PCI XX:XX:XX) starting execution...00000000 FA000000 0000AA55
Installation failed...cannot continue.

What are you actually building?

I am actually trying to build an option rom that will work for the legacy boot.

Still not telling us what you are actually building

(2019-01-21 08:39)rahuls551 Wrote:  

(2019-01-21 06:19)NiKiZe Wrote:  Where are you uploading the ROM?

I am flashing it on the hardware

And which hardware is that?, the nic you are running on, what nic is that?

(2019-01-21 08:39)rahuls551 Wrote:  

(2019-01-21 06:19)NiKiZe Wrote:  Have you tried with normal 32bit builds?

I have not tried that yet. I assumed that i would need x86_64 as a build target. Like i mentioned before the make command i am using is make bin-x86_64-pcbios/optionrom.rom. I have even tried with mrom the same problem occurs.

Don't use 64bit pcbios builds unless you have to and understand why you have to.

(2019-01-21 08:39)rahuls551 Wrote:  

(2019-01-21 06:19)NiKiZe Wrote:  Have you tried a .usb build first and that boots ok on the same hardware?
No but the same hardware and UEFI build and boot works just fine.

No. i have not tried this yet. But when i built the x86_64-efi.optionrom.efirom that works just fine in the EFI mode. I am trying to build the optionrom for legacy mode boot and i am not sure what i am doing wrong.

Before burning anything - always be sure it works without possibly destroying hardware by flashing it, it's simple enough to test with USB.

I will try this and let you know.

(2019-01-21 08:39)rahuls551 Wrote:  One thing i did have to build my mrom/rom images was to do -fno-pie as without it my ipxe wwasnt even compiling.

So you where not telling us this why?
And why are you not including the error message of that build?!?!?!?

(2019-01-21 17:00)rahuls551 Wrote:  I am testing this on a Cisco UCS server so i assumed that i need the bin-x86_64-pcbios builds. Please correct me if i am wrong.

(2019-01-21 09:31)NiKiZe Wrote:  Don't use 64bit pcbios builds unless you have to and understand why you have to.

(2019-01-21 18:05)NiKiZe Wrote:  

(2019-01-21 17:00)rahuls551 Wrote:  I am testing this on a Cisco UCS server so i assumed that i need the bin-x86_64-pcbios builds. Please correct me if i am wrong.

I will repeat myself from before:

(2019-01-21 09:31)NiKiZe Wrote:  Don't use 64bit pcbios builds unless you have to and understand why you have to.

Unless you really have to - don't!
That means if you have not tried yet, do try!
And even if that dosn't work you should still be able to explain why you need 64-bit builds for pcbios before using them - without any assumptions.

(2019-01-21 19:40)NiKiZe Wrote:  So it sounds you are using a build environment that is broken/not supported
If you have added -no-pie yeah I would expect any iPXE binaries created with that to be totally broken.