Surface Pro 3

[djm79]

It doesnt make one at all so there is a problem

[d.oertel]

Hi,

Did you ever any successful netboot installation with this opsi installation on a non uefi client ?

Is there a process named opsipxeconfd running ?

If yes - switch the a netboot product for the uefi client to setup and post the corresponding entries of the
/var/log/opsi/opsipxeconfd.log

If no - run /etc/init.d/opsipxeconfd restart and post the last entries of /var/log/opsi/opsipxeconfd.log

What is the output if you run the command:
ls -l /tftpboot/linux/pxelinux.cfg

cheers
d.oertel

[djm79]

Yes we image with OPSI almost daily for non UEFI clients. The process opsipxeconfid is running and you can see it in the logs you pointed out.

[5] [Jun 01 09:51:07] Got connection from client (opsipxeconfd|150)
[5] [Jun 01 09:51:07] MySQL server has gone away (Code 2006) - restarting Connection: retry 0 (MySQL.py|197)
[5] [Jun 01 09:51:08] Destroying ConnectionPool instance (MySQL.py|81)
[5] [Jun 01 09:51:08] elilo configuration detected (opsipxeconfd|571)
[5] [Jun 01 09:51:08] PXE boot configuration for host surfacepro1.mbtmaster.com is now set at '/tftpboot/linux/pxelinux.cfg/01-c0-33-5e-c6-c6-ef' (opsipxeconfd|437)
[5] [Jun 01 09:55:21] Pipe '/tftpboot/linux/pxelinux.cfg/01-c0-33-5e-c6-c6-ef' opened, piping pxe boot configuration (opsipxeconfd|616)
[5] [Jun 01 09:57:43] Got connection from client (opsipxeconfd|150)
[5] [Jun 01 09:59:47] Got connection from client (opsipxeconfd|150)

I can see what you are asking about but when I do the ls -l there is no file in that folder.

[d.oertel]

Hi,

the file is created by the opsipxeconfd as named pipe. A named pipe vanishes if it is read.
The log file says the Pipe is written:

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[5] [Jun 01 09:51:08] elilo configuration detected (opsipxeconfd|571)
[5] [Jun 01 09:51:08] PXE boot configuration for host surfacepro1.mbtmaster.com is now set at '/tftpboot/linux/pxelinux.cfg/01-c0-33-5e-c6-c6-ef' (opsipxeconfd|437)

and about 4 minutes later read (probably by the client)

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[5] [Jun 01 09:55:21] Pipe '/tftpboot/linux/pxelinux.cfg/01-c0-33-5e-c6-c6-ef' opened, piping pxe boot configuration (opsipxeconfd|616)

so if you want to read the /tftpboot/linux/pxelinux.cfg/01-c0-33-5e-c6-c6-ef' you shoul poweroff your UEFI client and then set the neboot product to setup.

Does this help ?

cheers
d.oertel

[djm79]

Ok it is making the file and removing after as expected but it seems when the surface pro pxe boots the second time around it is looking for that file and just sets at the EILILO prompt filling the screen with dots. Is there something we need to configure to get it to continue to the hard drive after reboot like the non UEFI systems?

[wolfbardo]

Ok it is making the file and removing after as expected but it seems when the surface pro pxe boots the second time around it is looking for that file and just sets at the EILILO prompt filling the screen with dots. Is there something we need to configure to get it to continue to the hard drive after reboot like the non UEFI systems?

mmh,

- usually after installing windows on an uefi-client via opsi the client should switch to local uefi boot from hd.

If not, one has to dig deeper in the problem or set localboot manual in the uefi bios

- there is no default netboot for uefi / elilo like legacy netboot/pxe

- for opsi-clients there is an local-boot-Product opsi-uefi-netboot for trigger uefi-netboot

regards,
bardo wolf