Running dhcp

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I'm running into issues with running 'dhcp' when starting up an iPXE script and trying to get access to the network.

Im running on a SeaBios on ASUS chromebox hardware.

The problem I run into when running dhcp is that it seems to lock up when running 'dhcp' with 'Waiting for link-up on net0'. It hangs there and I'm not able to Ctrl C to get out and waiting doesn't seem to help. It doesn't seem to fail either.

When running fstat, I get net0 .... closed + Link Down, and Link status: down (ipxe.org/38086101).

When I'm running on the Developer console on the machine, I'm able to connect the network just fine but it seems that I can't from the BIOS/ iPXE script. I just cloned ipxe so I should be on the latest version. I'm on a tested/working ethernet connection.

Something to do with the network firmware?

Script in totality:

Code:

echo Ifstat results
  ifstat
  echo before dhcp
  dhcp
  echo After dhcp
  set base http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64

  prompt -k 0x197e -t 2000 Press F12 to install CentOS... || exit
  kernel ${base}/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img repo=${base}
  initrd ${base}/images/pxeboot/initrd.img
  boot

Thanks for your help.

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Digging some more it seems like this is relevant http://ipxe.org/dev/drvtest/link?

Is just polling and waiting on ifstat to report a good connection the solution? Or just putting in a wait?