Booting from ISO not succesful

[Patrick]

Hello

I have a twenty PC AMD64 Asus Motherboard classroom with a OpenSUSE 13.1 LTSP server. Clients have an Atheros onboard ethernet adapter. Most of them, boot without problems from my LTSP server, but randomly, some of them can't get an IP or simply, even doesn't search any server and boot from hard disk. For those cases, I want to boot from CD, and I was thinking this could be with a burned iPXE ISO (http://boot.ipxe.org/ipxe.iso). But when despite my client boot from the ISO, it doesn't go so far from "No more network devices".

It shows:
ISOLINUX 3.63 ....
Etherboot ISO boot ...
boot:
Loading gpxe.krn ...... ready.
gPXE initialising devices...

gPXE 1.0.0 - Open Source ....
Features: AoE HTTP iSCSI DNS TFTP bzImage ....

No more network devices

Reboot and Select proper boot device

What am I doing wrong?

[robinsmidsrod]

Well, if the output says "gPXE 1.0.0" you're not booting the ipxe ISO, but some other old disc you have with gPXE. Please make sure you're booting the right software.

[Patrick]

(2014-05-19 09:15)robinsmidsrod Wrote:  Well, if the output says "gPXE 1.0.0" you're not booting the ipxe ISO, but some other old disc you have with gPXE. Please make sure you're booting the right software.

I just downloaded it again and I'll check it newly in a few hours.

Thank you

[Patrick]

Well. This forum still continue not working right. Impossible to upload a image below 500k (a capture from screen).

So, after burn and boot with the latest IPXE ISO, still can't boot from my server.


iPXE ISO boot image
Loading ipxe.krn .... ready
iPXE initialising devices ... ok

iPXE 1.0.0+ (F4E06) (...)
Features : HTTP iSCSI DNS TFTP AoE SRP bzImage ELF MBTOO PXE PXEXT menu

No more network devices


Any solution apart boot from ISO (as chain ROM), is not a solution for me. So I must give up and forget this hope of iPXE, but I can't understand why any Linux OS detect without problems my nic card (OpenSUSE and Ubuntu, for example) and iPXE doesn't .

Best regards

[robinsmidsrod]

Well, it seems your network card is not supported by the current iPXE version. What is the PCI vendor/device ID of your network card? iPXE is not the same as Linux and uses completely separate drivers, that is why your card is not currently supported.

[Patrick]

I have not just now access to console, but later can obtain it. However, I captured some screenshots that said:

Intel UNDI, PXE-2.1 (build 082)
Copyright 1997-2000 Intel Corporation

Vendor: Atheros Communications inc (0x1969)
For Attansic L1 PCIE Gigabit Ethernet Controller v1.0.20.11 (0x1048) (2007/01/30)
...


I don't know if that info is sufficient for you.

Thank you

[Patrick]

Hi again

Will you include that card to be possible to boot my thin client with the CDROM version?

Thank you