[syslinux] Problems with EFI PXE boot on Hp DL380p Gen9

[Lane]

Apologies to the OP and all, I got my wires crossed and replied in the
wrong thread.

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 5:40 PM, Lane <
software.research.development at gmail.com> wrote:

> I didn't understand that either, why DHCP was not captured. The DHCP
> server and the TFTP server are both on the master node. But I do have
> another capture file that collects everything and shows them.
>
> And I do know that every time I try to boot the diskless node, I will see
> a Discover, Offer, Request, and ACK in /var/log/messages of the master
> node. Here is a screen grab of a full capture as shown in wireshark for
> DHCP when booting the diskless node.
>
> 0x73f95441 is the diskless node.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Holger Baust via Syslinux <
> syslinux at zytor.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello...
>>
>> Am 05.02.15 um 23:33 schrieb Geert Stappers via Syslinux:
>> > On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 07:02:07PM +0100, Holger Baust wrote:
>> >> Hello.
>> >>
>> >> We are using pxelinux for years to boot Linux via PXE since years.
>> >> Since EFI is spreading, I changed configuration to be able to boot EFI
>> >> systems.
>> >>
>> >> The "Client":
>> >> - HP Proliant DL380Gen9 System FW: 1.21 11/03/2014, latest available
>> >> - NIC used for booting: HP Embedded LOM 331i (Broadcom BCM 5719/ tg3),
>> >> FW: 5719-v1.38
>> >>
>> >> The Server:
>> >> - ISC-DHCP with tfpd-hpa running on Debian 6.x
>> >> - syslinux 6.03, all files taken from this official binary distribution
>> >> from kernel.org
>> >> - different directories for bios / efi x64 and efi ia32 and all
>> binaries
>> >> are in their correct directory
>> >>
>> >> Remark:
>> >> Using a VM Version 9 on ESXi 5.5 with EFI boot as client runs perfect.
>> >> Using PXE on BIOS machines works without problems.
>> >>
>> >> The Problem:
>> >> - Proliant tries to boot via PXE.
>> >> - NIC FW displays Params it got via DHCP:
>> >>     Station IP Address is 192.168.111.172
>> >>
>> >>     Server IP Address is  192.168.111.1
>> >>     NBP filename is /efi64/bootx64.efi
>> >>     NBP filesize is 199952 bytes
>> >>    Downloading NBP file ...
>> >>
>> >>     NBP file downloaded successfully.
>> >> Getting chached packet
>> >> My IP is 0.0.0.0
>> >> core_udp_sendto: stalling on configure with no mapping
>> >> core_udp_sendto: stalling on configure with no mapping
>> >> core_udp_sendto: stalling on configure with no mapping
>> >> core_udp_sendto: stalling on configure with no mapping
>> >> ...
>> >>
>> >> I think, bootx64.efi aka syslinux.efi is fetched and startet, but it
>> >> does not get the IP
>> >> correctly from a cached packet. Perhaps it should be possible to do an
>> >> additional DHCP
>> >> request syslinux.efi thinks the local IP is 0.0.0.0?
>> >>
>> >> A pcap from tcpdump is attached.
>> > Nice capture!
>> thx.
>> > ( I think it is made at the TFTP server )
>> Sure.
>> >
>> > In packet number 8 from the PCAP-file is the "DHCP Request"
>> >
>> > In packet number 9 is an ARP Request ( who has 192.168.111.1 tell
>> 192.168.111.172 )
>> >
>> > In packet #10 the ARP Reply.
>> >
>> > In #11 starts the TFTP of /efi64/bootx64.efi, that ends at #290.
>> >
>> > In #291, #292 and #293 is .1 asking for .172
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >> Any suggestion / hint ?
>> > The (IMHO) missing information is the "DHCP Acknowledge"
>> > that should have been between package #8 and #9.
>> >
>> > Capture that missing package. It should be "visible" at the DHCP server
>> >
>> Hmm.. This might be difficult. tftpd and dhcp are on the same system.
>> If there was one, this should have been captured.
>> There are a lot of clients behind this system so getting the right
>> filter syntax
>> might be difficult.
>>
>> This Problem seems to be on all HP Proliant DL380Gen9 and DL360Gen9
>> which have in fact the same systemboard.
>>
>>
>> MfG / regards,
>> Holger Baust
>>
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