[MinnowBoard] Max PXE Boot?

[Bryan Smith]

> I managed to get the original MinnowBoards to netboot with version 1.00
> firmware, but it did take a bit of legwork - I'm using a GRUB image, and
> there's a race condition between GRUB using the EFI network stack and the
> UEFI firmware responding to ARP requests that causes GRUB to hang.  I got
> around it by editing the GRUB source to detect that particular condition
> and simply retry (a bit of a hack, but it works).  Don't know if this is
> what you were running into...

Well I'd definitely like to see this because it seems no one else but you
got it working on V1

>
> My problem is that I'm trying to upgrade to the Minnow Max, but am having
> trouble even enabling netbooting to try it - I used the 'bcfg boot mv'
> command at the UEFI Shell to change the boot order to netboot the original
> MinnowBoard, but the bcfg command appears to be unsupported in the Minnow
> Max firmware.

Sorry I was a bit mislead by the subject ie netboot Max but the contents
of the message addressed Minnow v1. I haven't tried this yet on the Max,
though my attempts failed on v1. Once I give it a shot a few times I'll
let you know if I fail or succeed.
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 8:25 PM, Bryan Smith <bryan at fossetcon.org> wrote:
>
>> Hey John,
>>
>> I tried this tirelessly quite a few times and I even built my own UEFI
>> with the UEFI Firmware Development Kit. I too noticed things were
>> missing
>> but the ip stack stuff is definitely in there. I could set ip's etc, and
>> it would attempt to netboot by grabbing files via tftp, but it always
>> failed afterwards.
>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/minnowboard/netboot
>>
>> It doesn't work on version 1.0 even though it's said to be added in that
>> version. I waited for 1.0 to only find that it didn't work and it's
>> still
>> in that state as there is no new firmware.
>>
>> MinnowBoard UEFI Firmware Release Version 1.00
>> 2013 Dec 5th
>>
>> C. SUPPORTED FEATURES
>>    - Boot from SATA, micro SD, USB, Ethernet (PXE)
>>
>> F. KNOWN ISSUES
>> 7.  Failed to boot from PXE IPV4
>>
>> 8.  Failed to boot from PXE IPV6
>>
>> Here is the source of the ReleaseNotes.txt:
>> http://uefidk.intel.com/sites/default/files//MB_UEFI_Firmware_v1.00.zip
>>
>> Bryan
>>
>> > Has anyone gotten a Max to PXE boot?  I've netbooted a version 1
>> > MinnowBoard, but the UEFI shell on the Max seems to be missing the
>> bcfg
>> > command, and no network devices appear in the boot order through the
>> > graphical bios menu system, so I'm not sure where to look to even try
>> it.
>> >
>> > We're using these for a project at Google, and I'd like to get us
>> using
>> > Max'es, but the ability to netboot is critical for us, so any help
>> would
>> > be
>> > greatly appreciated.
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> > ~madsci
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