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iPXE ESXi 6.0u2 on UEFI -> PSOD
2016-09-22, 16:49 (This post was last modified: 2016-09-22 19:35 by webminster.)
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RE: iPXE ESXi 6.0u2 on UEFI -> PSOD
Just tried the Update 1 version of this as a comparison, same behavior for me, it all freezes up right after the last module load (in my case, imgpayld.tgz).
And the definite problem is using HTTP to download the modules. While it looks like it works OK, something badly goes wrong somewhere invisibly. I did the following test, starting from a DL360G9 booted into the snponly.efi command line, where I chained to an ipxe.cfg script on a Web server I could edit:

Failed:
boot http://10.10.10.16/dists/esxi/6.0/mboot.efi -c http://10.10.10.16/dists/esxi/6.0/boot.cfg ks=http://10.10.10.16/01-ec-b1-d7-77-42-90.cfg

Succeeded:
boot tftp://10.10.10.16/dists/esxi/6.0/mboot.efi -c tftp://10.10.10.16/dists/esxi/6.0/boot.cfg ks=http://10.10.10.16/01-ec-b1-d7-77-42-90.cfg

So, why would downloading the installer modules via HTTP be so much worse than pulling them via TFTP?
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RE: iPXE ESXi 6.0u2 on UEFI -> PSOD - webminster - 2016-09-22 16:49



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