[MinnowBoard] PXE boot: Down rev firmware

[Darren Hart]

On 6/23/15, 5:16 PM, "Michael" <michael at kmaclub.com> wrote:

>    Hello,
>    
>    I have been running the 0.71 firmware for a while and PXE booting my
>    minnowboard max.
>    
>    Today, I upgraded to 0.80 and netbooting is no longer working.  I
>    see the new verbose messages regarding trying to PXE boot on the
>    console.   However, on the DHCP side, I just see the board
>    requesting a lease:
>    
>    
>    
>      Jun 23
>          16:15:29 dnsmasq-dhcp[4100]: DHCPDISCOVER(eth1)
>          00:13:20:fe:31:1f
>        Jun 23 16:15:29 dnsmasq-dhcp[4100]: DHCPOFFER(eth1)
>        192.168.101.35 00:13:20:fe:31:1f
>        Jun 23 16:15:37 dnsmasq-dhcp[4100]: DHCPDISCOVER(eth1)
>        00:13:20:fe:31:1f
>        Jun 23 16:15:37 dnsmasq-dhcp[4100]: DHCPOFFER(eth1)
>        192.168.101.35 00:13:20:fe:31:1f
>        Jun 23 16:15:53 dnsmasq-dhcp[4100]: DHCPDISCOVER(eth1)
>        00:13:20:fe:31:1f
>        Jun 23 16:15:53 dnsmasq-dhcp[4100]: DHCPOFFER(eth1)
>        192.168.101.35 00:13:20:fe:31:1f
>        
>        But it never accepts it.
>        
>        So, is anyone else PXE ( ipxe.efi ) booting a minnow board with
>        the current 0.80 firmware?
>
>
>

Please open a bugzilla report for this.

>
>        
>        OR can, I back rev my firmware back to 0.71 without causing
>        issues?
>
>
>

You can revert via the same process that you upgrade, yes. There were some
worthwhile fixes in the .80 release, but if PXE is critical to your use
case and is non-functional, 0.71 as a stop-gap until upstream is fixed is
a reasonable approach.

-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center