PXE boot with 2 NICs

[Bruce Ferrell]

On 1/12/20 11:15 AM, Daniel Feenberg wrote:
>
> Is it possible to PXE boot from 1 NIC, and then switch all (or most) 
> network traffic to the other NIC? I have a Gigabyte motherboard 
> (R182-Z90) that won't PXE boot from an OCP or PCI-E NIC (Intel x540 or 
> x550 10GBE cards) but only has 1 1GBE motherboard NIC. So I would like 
> to boot from the the 1GBE port but use the 10GBE NIC for the heavy 
> traffic to the file server.
>
> The message when attempting to boot from the add-in card is:
>
>   !PXE Structure was not found in UNDI Driver Code Segment
>
> which suggests a problem in the MB firmware. I don't really expect 
> Gigabyte to offer a solution, but I am thinking that FreeBSD might 
> have a work-around. The cards do work if I boot from a CD-ROM. But we 
> have 30+ systems, all the others booting PXE and I don't relish having 
> an exception.
>
> Daniel Feenberg
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You have a bad flash image for the NIC you're trying the PXE boot on.  A 
bit off google checking says it's pretty common on intel cards.

Are you just installing from PXE and then running local or is every boot 
PXE?  It seems either way the running config would deal with this... but 
it would mean an exception in the stored configs.

The error seems well known:

https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~brecht/servers/docs/PowerEdge-2600/en/IntelNIC/bootagnt/ba_msgs.htm


I'd try to reflash the NIC