Some older operating systems (e.g. RHEL6) use a non-default filename
on the root disk and rely on setting an EFI variable to point to the
bootloader. This does not work when performing a SAN boot on a
machine where the EFI variable is not present.
Fix by allowing a non-default filename to be specified via the
"sanboot --filename" option or the "san-filename" setting. For
example:
sanboot --filename \efi\redhat\grub.efi \
iscsi:192.168.0.1::::iqn.2010-04.org.ipxe.demo:rhel6
or
option ipxe.san-filename code 188 = string;
option ipxe.san-filename "\\efi\\redhat\\grub.efi";
option root-path "iscsi:192.168.0.1::::iqn.2010-04.org.ipxe.demo:rhel6";
Originally-implemented-by: Vishvananda Ishaya Abrams <vish.ishaya@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Describe all SAN devices via ACPI tables such as the iBFT. For tables
that can describe only a single device (i.e. the aBFT and sBFT), one
table is installed per device. For multi-device tables (i.e. the
iBFT), all devices are described in a single table.
An underlying SAN device connection may be closed at the time that we
need to construct an ACPI table. We therefore introduce the concept
of an "ACPI descriptor" which enables the SAN boot code to maintain an
opaque pointer to the underlying object, and an "ACPI model" which can
build tables from a list of such descriptors. This separates the
lifecycles of ACPI descriptions from the lifecycles of the block
device interfaces, and allows for construction of the ACPI tables even
if the block device interface has been closed.
For a multipath SAN device, iPXE will wait until sufficient
information is available to describe all devices but will not wait for
all paths to connect successfully. For example: with a multipath
iSCSI boot iPXE will wait until at least one path has become available
and name resolution has completed on all other paths. We do this
since the iBFT has to include IP addresses rather than DNS names. We
will commence booting without waiting for the inactive paths to either
become available or close; this avoids unnecessary boot delays.
Note that the Linux kernel will refuse to accept an iBFT with more
than two NIC or target structures. We therefore describe only the
NICs that are actually required in order to reach the described
targets. Any iBFT with at most two targets is therefore guaranteed to
describe at most two NICs.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Add basic support for multipath block devices. The "sanboot" and
"sanhook" commands now accept a list of SAN URIs. We open all URIs
concurrently. The first connection to become available for issuing
block device commands is marked as the active path and used for all
subsequent commands; all other connections are then closed. Whenever
the active path fails, we reopen all URIs and repeat the process.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Interpret the maximum drive number (0xff for hard disks, 0x7f for
floppy disks) as meaning "use natural drive number".
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Commit 53d2d9e ("[uri] Generalise tftp_uri() to pxe_uri()") introduced
a regression in which an NFS root path would no longer be treated as
an unsupported root path, causing a boot with an NFS root path to fail
with a "Could not open SAN device" error.
Reported-by: David Evans <dave.evans55@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Merge the functionality of parse_next_server_and_filename() and
tftp_uri() into a single pxe_uri(), which takes a server address
(IPv4/IPv6/none) and a filename, and produces a URI using the rule:
- if the filename is a hierarchical absolute URI (i.e. includes a
scheme such as "http://" or "tftp://") then use that URI and ignore
the server address,
- otherwise, if the server address is recognised (according to
sa_family) then construct a TFTP URI based on the server address,
port, and filename
- otherwise fail.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
When booting without an embedded script, display the imgstat()
information immediately before executing the downloaded image. This
allows potentially useful diagnostic information (such as the detected
image type) to be observed by the user without needing to enter the
iPXE shell and manually download the image.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Allow the return status from an embedded image to propagate out to the
eventual return status from main(). When running under Linux, this
allows the pass/fail result of unit tests to be observable without
having to visually inspect the console output.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
When using iPXE as an option ROM for a PCI USB controller (e.g. via
qemu's "-device nec-usb-xhci,romfile=..." syntax), the ROM prefix will
set the PCI bus:dev.fn address of the USB controller as the PCI
autoboot device. This will cause iPXE to fail to boot from any
detected USB network devices, since they will not match the autoboot
bus type (or location).
Fix by allowing the autoboot bus type and location to match against
the network device or any of its parent devices. This allows the
match to succeed for USB network devices attached to the selected PCI
USB controller.
Reported-by: Dan Ellis <Dan.Ellis@displaylink.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
These files cannot be automatically relicensed by util/relicense.pl
since they either contain unusual but trivial contributions (such as
the addition of __nonnull function attributes), or contain lines
dating back to the initial git revision (and so require manual
knowledge of the code's origin).
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Use PRODUCT_SHORT_NAME instead of a hardcoded "iPXE" for strings which
are typically shown in the user interface.
Note that this only allows for customisation of the user interface.
Where the "iPXE" string serves a technical purpose (such as in the
HTTP User-Agent), the string cannot be customised.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Expose the build timestamp (measured in seconds since the Epoch) and
the build name (e.g. "rtl8139.rom" or "ipxe.efi"), and provide the
product name and product short name in a single centralised location.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
iPXE will detect timeout failures in several situations: network
link-up, DHCP, TCP connection attempts, unacknowledged TCP data, etc.
This does not cover all possible circumstances. For example, if a
connection to a web server is successfully established and the web
server acknowledges the HTTP request but never sends any data in
response, then no timeout will be triggered. There is no timeout
defined within the HTTP specifications, and the underlying TCP
connection will not generate a timeout since it has no way to know
that the HTTP layer is expecting to receive data from the server.
Add a "--timeout" parameter to "imgfetch", "chain", etc. If no
progress is made (i.e. no data is downloaded) within the timeout
period, then the download will be aborted.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
iPXE will currently attempt to boot from every network device for
which it has a driver. Where a system has more than one network
device supported by iPXE, this renders BIOS IPL lists ineffective.
Allow an autoboot device location to be specified. If such a location
is specified, then only devices matching that location will be used as
part of the automatic boot sequence. If no such location is
specified, then all devices will be used.
Note that this does not affect the "autoboot" command, which will
continue to use all devices.
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Modified-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Add support for parsing of URIs containing literal IPv6 addresses
(e.g. "http://[fe80::69ff:fe50:5845%25net0]/boot.ipxe").
Duplicate URIs by directly copying the relevant fields, rather than by
formatting and reparsing a URI string. This relaxes the requirements
on the URI formatting code and allows it to focus on generating
human-readable URIs (e.g. by not escaping ':' characters within
literal IPv6 addresses). As a side-effect, this allows relative URIs
containing parameter lists (e.g. "../boot.php##params") to function
as expected.
Add validity check for FTP paths to ensure that only printable
characters are accepted (since FTP is a human-readable line-based
protocol with no support for character escaping).
Construct TFTP next-server+filename URIs directly, rather than parsing
a constructed "tftp://..." string,
Add self-tests for URI functions.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The fetch_setting() family of functions may currently modify the
definition of the specified setting (e.g. to add missing type
information). Clean up this interface by requiring callers to provide
an explicit buffer to contain the completed definition of the fetched
setting, if required.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Commit 5e1fa5c ("[parseopt] Add parse_timeout()") introduced a
regression causing the shell banner timeout value (calculated in
milliseconds) to be treated as a timer tick count, resulting in a
timeout of approximately two minutes rather than the intended two
seconds.
Reported-by: Christian Hesse <list@eworm.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Locate the settings block containing the filename, and search only
that settings block for the next-server address. This avoids problems
caused by misconfigured DHCP servers which provide a next-server
address (often defaulting to the DHCP server's own IP address) even
when not providing a filename.
Originally-implemented-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Simplify the process of booting by ensuring that old images are not
left registered after an unsuccessful autoboot attempt.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Remove the name, cmdline, and action parameters from imgdownload() and
imgdownload_string(). These functions now simply download and return
an image.
Add the function imgacquire(), which will interpret a "name or URI
string" parameter and return either an existing image or a newly
downloaded image.
Use imgacquire() to merge similar image-management commands that
currently differ only by whether they take the name of an existing
image or the URI of a new image to download. For example, "chain" and
"imgexec" can now be merged.
Extend imgstat and imgfree commands to take an optional list of
images.
Remove the arbitrary restriction on the length of image names.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
All users of imgdownload() require registration of the image, so make
registration an integral part of imgdownload() itself and simplify the
"action" parameter to be one of image_select(), image_exec() et al.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Expose the multiple-SAN-drive capability of the iPXE core via the iPXE
command line by adding commands to hook and unhook additional drives.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Improve the appearance of the "config" user interface by ensuring that
settings appear in some kind of logical order.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Refactor the {load,exec} image operations as {probe,exec}. This makes
the probe mechanism cleaner, eliminates some forward declarations,
avoids holding magic state in image->priv, eliminates the possibility
of screwing up between the "load" and "exec" stages, and makes the
documentation simpler since the concept of "loading" (as distinct from
"executing") no longer needs to be explained.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Currently, if both a filename and root-path are present, iPXE will
hook the SAN device but will only attempt to boot from the filename.
Change this behaviour so that both are attempted. Users who want to
avoid booting from the SAN as a fallback can do so via the existing
"skip-san-boot" setting.
This allows for seamless deployment to a SAN target using Windows
Deployment Services (and similar products). A user simply has to
define the root-path option in DHCP and then use WDS to deploy the
system. No further configuration should be required.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
If the NBP returns, then always print a trailing newline, since some
NBPs (e.g. wdsnbp.com) leave the cursor in a random position halfway
across the screen.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
This (hopefully) fixes a regression introduced in commit e088892
("[autoboot] Connect SAN disk during a filename boot, if applicable").
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Allow the DHCP filename and root-path to contain settings expansions,
such as
http://boot.ipxe.org/demo/boot.php?mac=${mac:hexhyp}
Originally-implemented-by: Jarrod Johnson <jarrod.b.johnson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
For performing installations direct to a SAN target, it can be very
useful to hook a SAN disk and then proceed to perform a filename boot.
For example, the user may wish to hook the (empty) SAN installation
disk and then boot into the OS installer via TFTP. This provides an
alternative mechanism to using "keep-san" and relying on the BIOS to
fall through to boot from the installation media, which is unreliable
on many BIOSes.
When a root-path is specified in addition to a boot filename, attempt
to hook the root-path as a SAN disk before booting from the specified
filename. Since the root-path may be used for non-SAN purposes
(e.g. an NFS root mount point), ignore the root-path if it contains a
URI scheme that we do not support.
Originally-implemented-by: Jarrod Johnson <jarrod.b.johnson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Remove the concept of shutdown exit flags, and replace it with a
counter used to keep track of exposed interfaces that require devices
to remain active.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Allow "autoboot" to accept an optional list of network devices, and
remove the "netboot" command. This saves around 130 bytes.
The "netboot" command has existed for approximately 48 hours, so its
removal should not cause backwards compatibility issues for anyone.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
For some install-to-SAN scenarios, the OS needs to be able to reboot
to reread the partition table. On this second boot attempt, the SAN
disk will not be empty and so iPXE will attempt to boot from it,
rather than falling back to the OS' installation media.
Work around this problem by introducing the "skip-san-boot" option,
similar in spirit to "keep-san".
Modified-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Improve the visibility of error messages by removing the redundant
final printing of the URL being booted.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The block device interface used in gPXE predates the invention of even
the old gPXE data-transfer interface, let alone the current iPXE
generic asynchronous interface mechanism. Bring this old code up to
date, with the following benefits:
o Block device commands can be cancelled by the requestor. The INT 13
layer uses this to provide a global timeout on all INT 13 calls,
with the result that an unexpected passive failure mode (such as
an iSCSI target ACKing the request but never sending a response)
will lead to a timeout that gets reported back to the INT 13 user,
rather than simply freezing the system.
o INT 13,00 (reset drive) is now able to reset the underlying block
device. INT 13 users, such as DOS, that use INT 13,00 as a method
for error recovery now have a chance of recovering.
o All block device commands are tagged, with a numerical tag that
will show up in debugging output and in packet captures; this will
allow easier interpretation of bug reports that include both
sources of information.
o The extremely ugly hacks used to generate the boot firmware tables
have been eradicated and replaced with a generic acpi_describe()
method (exploiting the ability of iPXE interfaces to pass through
methods to an underlying interface). The ACPI tables are now
built in a shared data block within .bss16, rather than each
requiring dedicated space in .data16.
o The architecture-independent concept of a SAN device has been
exposed to the iPXE core through the sanboot API, which provides
calls to hook, unhook, boot, and describe SAN devices. This
allows for much more flexible usage patterns (such as hooking an
empty SAN device and then running an OS installer via TFTP).
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Michael Brown