Re: multiple UNDI NICs in VMWare ESX 3.5 cause gPXEDHCP to fail on 1st NIC

On Thursday 06 August 2009 17:49:23 Bill Lortz wrote:
> Instead of cloning another system, I thought I would just change the
> chainloaded bootimage of gPXE on an already working system to see if it
> boots correctly.    That system is configured with the Flexible NIC that
> emulates a PCNET32 NIC and switches to a VMXNET NIC if "VMWare tools" is
> installed.    On this 2nd test system with the UNDIONLY version of gpxe,
> it has a terrible time booting and never gets past the script load
> phase.   Sometimes it times out trying to acquire an IP Address,
> sometimes it gets past that phase and times out when trying to do an
> http: load of the gPXE script.

Please try building undionly.kpxe with DEBUG=undinet, as in

  make bin/undionly.kpxe DEBUG=undinet

and report on any messages that appear.  You can also try typing "ifstat" 
after a failed boot attempt to get a list of some errors.

Michael

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