Re: Problem PXE booting Fedora 28

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On 2018-10-18 2:37 a.m., Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 10/17/18 3:54 PM, Digimer wrote:
>> First, do you have docs/links/reference material you might recommend on
>> building a Fedora-based UEFI PXE server? I'd love to try and get further
>> on my own and keep questions to a minimum.
> 
> I don't remember where I found information.  I know I had to figure out
> quite a bit of it myself.  There might be better references now.
> 
>> Right now, I've got a KVM/qemu guest configured with UEFI. I've setup
>> the following;
>>
>> ====
>> [root@f28-striker01 fedora28]# cat /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux/uefi
> 
> I assume there was supposed to be a "grub.cfg" at the end of that line.
> It looks ok, but you aren't getting to that yet anyway.
> 
>> When I PXE boot the UEFI guest, it gets the IP from the PXE server,
>> downloads uefi/shim.efi, then hangs on 'Fetching Netboot image'. It
>> never shows a menu.
>>
>> ==== (on EFI guest, transcribed manually)
>>>> Start PXE over IPv4
>>    Station IP address is 10.1.14.186
>>
>>    Server IP address is 10.1.4.1
>>    NBP filename is uefi/shim.efi
>>    NBP filesize is 1210776 Bytes
>>   Downloading NBP file...
>>
>>    NBP file downloaded successfully.
>> Fetching Netboot Image
>> ====
>>
>> And there it hangs. I'm not sure how to debug to see more detail on what
>> it is trying to do. This UEFI PXE booting is totally new for me, so I
>> may be missing something terribly obvious.
> 
> If you could get a log of requests from the tftp server that would have
> helped you.  However, I don't think it does that.  Many times I used
> strace on the tftp server to find out what requests it was getting.
> 
> I'm guessing that you are missing the "grubx64.efi" file that shim wants
> to load.  You should be able to get that from the install iso as well.

I connected over serial to the guest and was able to catch an error;

====
>>Start PXE over IPv4.
  Station IP address is 10.1.14.186

  Server IP address is 10.1.4.1
  NBP filename is uefi/shim.efi
  NBP filesize is 1210776 Bytes
 Downloading NBP file...

  NBP file downloaded successfully.
Fetching Netboot Image
!!!! X64 Exception Type - 0D(#GP - General Protection)  CPU Apic ID -
00000000 !!!!
ExceptionData - 0000000000000000
RIP  - 000000007FF8E976, CS  - 0000000000000038, RFLAGS - 0000000000210202
RAX  - 0000000000000001, RCX - 0000000000000010, RDX - AFAFAFAFAFAFAFA7
RBX  - 0000000000000020, RSP - 000000007FF7E6B0, RBP - 000000007ED11F18
RSI  - AFAFAFAFAFAFAFAF, RDI - 000000007FFA1720
R8   - 0000000000000000, R9  - 0000000000000028, R10 - 0000000000000020
R11  - 0000000000000002, R12 - 000000007ECE3798, R13 - 000000007ECE3C18
R14  - 000000007FF7E788, R15 - 000000007ECE37D8
DS   - 0000000000000030, ES  - 0000000000000030, FS  - 0000000000000030
GS   - 0000000000000030, SS  - 0000000000000030
CR0  - 0000000080010033, CR2 - 0000000000000000, CR3 - 000000007FC01000
CR4  - 0000000000000668, CR8 - 0000000000000000
DR0  - 0000000000000000, DR1 - 0000000000000000, DR2 - 0000000000000000
DR3  - 0000000000000000, DR6 - 00000000FFFF0FF0, DR7 - 0000000000000400
GDTR - 000000007FBEE698 0000000000000047, LDTR - 0000000000000000
IDTR - 000000007F5B5018 0000000000000FFF,   TR - 0000000000000000
FXSAVE_STATE - 000000007FF7E310
!!!! Find image based on IP(0x7FF8E976)
/builddir/build/BUILD/tianocore-edk2-cb5f4f45ce/Build/OvmfX64/DEBUG_GCC5/X64/MdeModulePkg/Core/Dxe/DxeMain/DEBUG/DxeCore.dll
(ImageBase=000000007FF80000, EntryPoint=000000007FF98DB1) !!!!
====

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