internal-error on PXE Boot - issue with recent iPXE version?

[Kaeltis]

Hey,

I'm currently trying to network boot the FOG client via PXE, however after some initial loading, the VM goes into a "internal-error" state, where it's stuck forever.

I already tried updating the iPXE ROM following this guide https://gist.github.com/papamoose/e0b18d002f8686aaf767, but that didn't change anything (is it the right location for the files?)

Any clues on how to fix this?

 

[LnxBil]

Try the iPXE cd image and boot from them. It helped me.

Locations are:

root@pve4-test ~ > dpkg -L pve-qemu-kvm | grep rom
/usr/share/kvm/pxe-virtio.rom
/usr/share/kvm/pxe-pcnet.rom
/usr/share/kvm/efi-pcnet.rom
/usr/share/kvm/pxe-ne2k_pci.rom
/usr/share/kvm/efi-rtl8139.rom
/usr/share/kvm/pxe-rtl8139.rom
/usr/share/kvm/efi-ne2k_pci.rom
/usr/share/kvm/efi-eepro100.rom
/usr/share/kvm/efi-virtio.rom
/usr/share/kvm/pxe-eepro100.rom
/usr/share/kvm/efi-e1000.rom
/usr/share/kvm/pxe-e1000.rom

 

[Kaeltis]

Strange.. I tried booting the iPXE .iso and it's also causing an internal-error, is there an incompatibility between iPXE and KVM or something?

 

[LnxBil]

What exact version of QEmu are you using?

 

[Kaeltis]

proxmox-ve: 4.2-48 (running kernel: 4.4.6-1-pve)
pve-manager: 4.2-2 (running version: 4.2-2/725d76f0)
pve-kernel-4.4.6-1-pve: 4.4.6-48
lvm2: 2.02.116-pve2
corosync-pve: 2.3.5-2
libqb0: 1.0-1
pve-cluster: 4.0-39
qemu-server: 4.0-72
pve-firmware: 1.1-8
libpve-common-perl: 4.0-59
libpve-access-control: 4.0-16
libpve-storage-perl: 4.0-50
pve-libspice-server1: 0.12.5-2
vncterm: 1.2-1
pve-qemu-kvm: 2.5-14
pve-container: 1.0-62
pve-firewall: 2.0-25
pve-ha-manager: 1.0-28
ksm-control-daemon: 1.2-1
glusterfs-client: 3.5.2-2+deb8u2
lxc-pve: 1.1.5-7
lxcfs: 2.0.0-pve2
cgmanager: 0.39-pve1
criu: 1.6.0-1
zfsutils: 0.6.5-pve9~jessie
openvswitch-switch: not correctly installed

 

[LnxBil]

In testing there is already QEMU version 2.6 maybe that works.

 

[Kaeltis]

Even tried it on different hardware now, still no luck. Any ideas? Or at least a way to get some debug output?

 

[Kaeltis]

I tried updating iPXE and then SeaBIOS first from sources and then from qemu's repo, now it get's stuck at an earlier stage. Is there an incompatibility between proxmox and recent iPXE versions?

 

[Kaeltis]

Okay, it's a hardware problem. It's working fine on a proxmox server with a Xeon L5640 but not on one with a L5420.
No clue what do do now, since the working one is in use for something different.