3 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Perry Lorier
69eb97d03f Explain which DHCP response is missing
Include better debugging messages as to if you didn't receive any DHCP response, or you're missing the ProxyDHCP boot configuration to try and determine what's going wrong.
2018-08-28 14:01:57 -07:00
David Anderson
029be8d339 Force machines to chainload through Pixiecore's embedded iPXE.
This guarantees that we load the real OS from an iPXE with a known
featureset, rather than rely on the firmware iPXEs to be correct.

Also switch to ipxe.pxe for BIOS boots instead of undionly.kpxe.

ipxe.pxe works when you chainload from one iPXE to another, whereas
undionly.kpxe encounters some kind of poorly explained bug where
it loses the ability to configure networking.

Tested against the following configurations:
 - VirtualBox + BIOS w/ iPXE
 - VirtualBox + BIOS w/ Intel UNDI
 - VirtualBox + EFI
 - KVM + SeaBIOS w/ iPXE
 - KVM + OVMF (EFI)
 - Dell R610 + Dell BIOS/PXE

Fixes #51, fixes #52.
2018-01-15 19:17:56 -08:00
David Anderson
ff7a0b56c6 pixiecore: Add a retry loop in the iPXE boot.
iPXE has an annoying race condition where it sometimes doesn't notice
the ProxyDHCP response when booting, and fails. So we embed a boot
script in the builtin iPXE binaries that implements the retry loop
recommended in the documentation. Empirically, this has resolved
flaky boots on my test machine, usually no more than a single
retry is needed.
2016-08-14 16:55:27 -07:00