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ipxe does not boot on a Realtek PCIe GBE - Steph01 - 2016-02-11 20:55
Hello,
I use iPXE hosted on a linux server with tftp and it works fine on many pc to use a iSCSI server to boot Windows 7 or 8.1 from SAN.
But on a old ASUS P7P55D with a Realtek PCIe GBE, iPXE stops at "initialisation...". It stops and nothing append even after 10 minutes.
What can I do to fix this?
Regards,
Stéphane
RE: ipxe does not boot on a Realtek PCIe GBE - Steph01 - 2016-02-12 18:30
From motherboard documentation, this LAN adapter is:
Realtek 8112L Gigabit LAN controller featuring AI NET2
Then does not seams supported in this list http://ipxe.org/appnote/hardware_drivers
even if it's from 2009.Regards,
Stéphane
RE: ipxe does not boot on a Realtek PCIe GBE - Steph01 - 2016-02-12 21:39
Solved by using ipxe.pxe, but windows does not like the driver and does not install on SAN.
RE: ipxe does not boot on a Realtek PCIe GBE - NiKiZe - 2016-02-15 20:16
I'm guessing the PCI ID of this device is 10ec:8168 ? (which have a native driver in ipxe) where you using undionly.kpxe when it didn't work?
RE: ipxe does not boot on a Realtek PCIe GBE - Steph01 - 2016-02-17 18:57
Id of the device is PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_3B50&SUBSYS_83831043&REV_05\3&11583659&0&E7
undionly.kpxe hangs at "initialization of the device..." message or kind of message, ipxe.pxe works.
After I patched all 3 .wim (PE, boot and install), Windows 10 did begin to install on SAN but after reboot it does an "inaccessible boot device" error I could not solve so I gave up with this spywareOS and did same with Windows 7 which did install properly on SAN.
By the way, any of Win7, 8 or 10 all require .wim patching to add latest version of LAN drivers to be able to install them on a SAN device on various PC I did try with different NIC or they all end up with a "signature of xxx.sys does not match..." error or "inaccessible boot device" after the first reboot but this is nothing related with iPXE.
RE: ipxe does not boot on a Realtek PCIe GBE - NiKiZe - 2016-02-17 23:34
(2016-02-17 18:57)Steph01 Wrote: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_3B50
Hmm, 8086 is Intel what you refer to is actually a 8086:3b50 PCI Express Root Port and not a NIC
There is other posts talking about Windows iSCSI, Windows 10 does not work to install without a lot of "hacking".
RE: ipxe does not boot on a Realtek PCIe GBE - Steph01 - 2016-02-24 18:37
Oh!! my mistake.
The Nic is PCI\VEN_10EC&DEV_8168&SUBSYS_83A31043&REV_03\4&61613AC&0&00E7 as you posted.
I did not copy the proper device, my bad.
RE: ipxe does not boot on a Realtek PCIe GBE - SebastianRoth - 2016-02-24 23:25
You can try building the iPXE binary with debug for undi code enabled:
Code:
make bin/undionly.kpxe DEBUG=undi EMBED=...