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Kernel panic after iPXE - Kernel handover when using EFI iPXE - maltris - 2020-07-03 08:05

Hello,

I am currently playing with UEFI and wanted to make my installer UEFI-ready. For that I compiled a fresh ipxe.efi from the git repo (g761e) and compiled it like this:

Code:
/ipxe/src$ make bin-x86_64-efi/ipxe.efi

The ISC-DHCPd is set up like this:

Code:
host testvmcent.training.mucre1.retloc{
  hardware ethernet 00:11:22:33:44:55;
  fixed-address 10.0.0.1;
  option host-name "testhost";
  if exists user-class and option user-class = "iPXE" {
      filename "http://otherhost/ipxe/menu.ipxe";
  } else {
      if option client-arch = 00:00 {
        filename "/undionly.kpxe";
      } elsif option client-arch = 00:07 {
        filename "/ipxe.efi";
      }
  }
}

This way UEFI correctly hands over to iPXE.

I am then presented my menu.ipxe, of which entries I choose for example to boot an live debian buster (but the problem exists as well with CentOS 7/8 and different Ubuntu versions):

Code:
:buster-live
kernel http://otherhost/ipxe/buster-live/linux
initrd http://otherhost/ipxe/buster-live/initrd
imgargs linux boot=live config hooks=filesystem noautologin noeject fetch=http://otherhost/ipxe/buster-live/filesystem.squashfs
boot || goto failed

Half a second into the booting process the system produces a kernel panic as shown in the screenshot.

https://abload.de/img/bildschirmfotovom2020wfkaz.png

(Not embedding due to privacy and bandwidth reasons.)

Quote:No filesystem could mount root, tried:

Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)

Why does this happen? It works fine with the same version of iPXE in BIOS-mode. Th
e EFI is the emulated VMware one.

(I know that this most likely is not iPXE-related, but I also know that here I will find the people who have extensive knowledge into the topic, even after the iPXE -> Linux handover.)