<div dir="ltr"><div>Context: I'm not using FAI right now, but I am doing a fair amount of PXE install-related stuff.</div><div><br></div><div>Could you chainload iPXE via grub? If you do, I suggest you use the newest version you can-- I've had trouble with the version supplied with Ubuntu 20.04, for instance.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Russell<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 26 Jul 2024 at 04:53, andrej via linux-fai <<a href="mailto:linux-fai@uni-koeln.de">linux-fai@uni-koeln.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Diese Nachricht wurde eingewickelt um DMARC-kompatibel zu sein. Die<br>
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On Friday, July 26th, 2024 at 3:40 PM, Matthew Pounsett <<a href="mailto:matt@conundrum.com" target="_blank">matt@conundrum.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">I have never been able to get any of our Dell machines to PXE boot in UEFI mode. I switch the boot to BIOS mode and they’re fine. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This may not be the optimal solution. :)</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 18:43 andrej via linux-fai <<a href="mailto:linux-fai@uni-koeln.de" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">linux-fai@uni-koeln.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">Diese Nachricht wurde eingewickelt um DMARC-kompatibel zu sein. Die<br>
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text is therefore in an attachment.<br><br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: andrej <<a href="mailto:tinkster@proton.me" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">tinkster@proton.me</a>><br>To: fully automatic installation for Linux <<a href="mailto:linux-fai@uni-koeln.de" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">linux-fai@uni-koeln.de</a>><br>Cc: <br>Bcc: <br>Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2024 01:43:04 +0000<br>Subject: PXE-booting UEFI machines<br>Hi,<br>
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I'm seeing some strange behaviour for a bunch of recent supermicro mini-servers that I'm trying to build using FAI. As opposed to the VMs I've been building initially (testing, much faster turn-around) which use BIOS mode and typically (I had to try a second boot on a few occasions) "just work"™ I'm seeing odd behaviour with the UEFI supermicros. They will only start PXE booting after at least 3 restarts, some take up to 15 (!!) and I was wondering whether anyone has seen similar behaviour, or, better yet, a solution :)<br>
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