No netboot/PXE boot ?

Matt

I've had a look in the BIOS config and dont see anything obvious for configuring network booting, and the UEFI shell doesn't have ipconfig support.

Does the UP board support booting from network at all?

Leon

Hi, Before I pledged on Kickstarter I asked the Up team and was confirmed that it should work no problem. I certainly hope PXE is still there! Looking forward to an official statement on this ?

Matt

Can there be an official response?

Aling

We are sorry fro previous incorrect information.
After investigating, the Ethernet chip RTL8111G only support WOL but not PXE.

Matt

What about network support within UEFI?

Leon

Well, that's a shame, I purchased based on this information provided by you :-/

Matt

This is not a good start.

leonderooij - What I intend to do is boot iPXE from a USB stick which will provide full PXE/Netboot support.

Andy Nicholson

That's a really big loss, you've been advertising it from the start and still advertise it on the product pages as an enabled feature - http://up-shop.org/up-boards/2-up-board-2gb-16-gb-emmc-memory.html

Justin Garrison

I agree that's a real bummer to not have PXE support. I was looking to buy these but required PXE support. Chainloading from USB would probably work but a bad solution.

I made an account on the forums just to post this. I hope there's a solution in the future.

DCleri

Hi All,

Our BIOS engineers are actively working on this feature so it can be enabled by future BIOS releases

Leon

Hi, that's really appreciated!! Already having fun with the boards so far, pretty fast for such small passively cooled devices

Fai

Yes. hope PXE boot will support soon.

Fai

Did you success to make iPXE boot?

DCleri

Hi zerofai,
We got PXE boot working!

We are going to release the new BIOS as soon as possible, hopefully next week.

We will keep you posted!

Marcello

is this implementing the USB3 fixes from intel too?

Leon

hey cool! looking forward to trying it out

DCleri

The new BIOS with fixes from Intel is not ready yet.
The improvements, including on USB, has yet to be tried out, any new update on the USB3.0 status will be updated in the related topic: https://up-community.org/forum/public-otheros/290-usb-3-0-otg-not-switching-to-superspeed?start=40

DCleri

Just released the new BIOS with PXE Boot

https://up-community.org/blog/47-uefi-bios-update-upc1am0x-is-now-available

Marcello

dcleri wrote:

Just released the new BIOS with PXE Boot

https://up-community.org/blog/47-uefi-bios-update-upc1am0x-is-now-available

Hello DCLERI, I am currently on BIOS Revision UPC1BM0S, hence pretty old.
For applications where PXE is not needed, would I get any benefits by updating?
I am afraid of potential hiccups in the update process / downsides afterwards.
thank you.

DCleri

0S is the previous version, and there aren't improvements that require to update to 0X if you don't need pxe boot.