[syslinux] HP EFI binaries

Gene Cumm gene.cumm at gmail.com
Thu Aug 27 18:37:17 PDT 2015


On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 6:50 PM, Derrick M <derrick.martinez at gmail.com> wrote:
> Without the GUID-Aliases list can debugging not continue?

No, the GUID-Aliases list was just merely a double-check on how these
systems create aliases.

I'm just getting a little stumped as to what's going on.

> I don't see anything similar in the Gen9 UEFI command list
>
> http://h17007.www1.hp.com/docs/iss/proliant_uefi/v32403933.html#topictoc

Excellent reference!

Apparently your shell uses alias instead of guid.

http://h17007.www1.hp.com/docs/iss/proliant_uefi/v28070872.html

-- 
-Gene

> On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Derrick M <derrick.martinez at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Gene
>> >
>> > Thanks for the reply. I didn't have a guid command, and couldn't find
>> > the
>> > equivalent. dh > fs0:\efi-dh.txt worked, but dh -p Net did not so I ran
>> > dh
>>
>> Nothing of the sort listed with the help command to list the full
>> GUIDs and their aliases?
>>
>> > -d -v -p SimpleNetwork > fs0:\efi-simplenetwork.txt
>>
>> Excellent job on finding the target alias.
>>
>> > Also attaching a screenshot from Oscar's debug code.
>> >
>> > Thank you
>>
>> At least it makes it through a lot of the initial code.
>>
>> --
>> -Gene
>>
>> > On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 12:13 PM, Derrick M
>> >> <derrick.martinez at gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > Gene,
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks for sending the binary. Looks like my DL160 G9 still gets
>> >> > stuck
>> >> > at
>> >> > syslinux.efi according to the TFTP logs. On the PXE menu I have My IP
>> >> > is
>> >> > 10.12.3.4
>> >> >
>> >> > Does the binary include the fix for multiple NICs? I assume yes since
>> >> > I
>> >> > have
>> >> > an address
>> >>
>> >> Yes it does.
>> >>
>> >> Let's start with some basics:
>> >>
>> >> - What baseboard firmware version?  Is there a newer one available?
>> >>
>> >> - Any chance of getting a dump of some EFI data, specifically the
>> >> GUID-Aliases list (which should be almost universal but good to
>> >> cross-reference) and a list of device handles?  The following should
>> >> work in your EFI shell, presuming you can extract data from fs0 (the
>> >> first mounted FAT* file system).
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> guid > fs0:\efi-guid.txt
>> >> dh > fs0:\efi-dh.txt
>> >> dh -p Net > fs0:\efi-dh-net.txt
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> In particular, I'm looking for where the Pxebc lives relative to
>> >> MNPSb/UDPv4Sb (Net is a common Simple Network Protocol alias).
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> -Gene


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