[MinnowBoard] Max PXE Boot?

[Hawley, John]

I swear I feel like I'm responding to myself, but I'm really not that
schizophrenic.

The boot order is changable from the firmware:

http://www.elinux.org/Minnowboard:MaxBios#Change_Boot_Order

Hit F2 during bootup, or if you can get to the UEFI shell type exit.

There's a group internally that had the board network booting (I believe
with UEFI vs. PXE) but I haven't done it myself, so I don't have exact
steps.  If you need I can probably do something and get that setup and a
howto written (but it might take a bit to do)

- John "Warthog9" Hawley

On Tue, 2014-08-05 at 22:13 -0700, John Hawley wrote:
> 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...
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> 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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