Re: pxe chain to nvme

[Ulrich Sibiller]

Hi,

looks like your configuration lacks an 'e' in the chainloader line
(.fi instead of .efi).

Uli

On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 10:14 PM Michael DiDomenico
<mdidomenico4@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> i'm having a little trouble getting grub2 to chain load from pxe to an
> nvme drive.  i'm certainly doing something wrong or missing something
>
> currently, my server is set to boot by default via pxe.  pxe boots a
> uefi grub2 instance which pulls in this config file
>
> menuentry "local disk" {
>   insmod chain
>   search --set=root --file /EFI/redhat/grubx64.efi
>   chainloader /EFI/redhat/grubx64.fi
> }
>
> for just about every other server this seems to work okay, but not
> this one, and this is the first server i have using internal nvme
> drives.  the drivers are behind a raid controller HPE NS204i-t Gen10
>
> when grub2 tries to execute the 'local disk' menu entry.  i get an
> error that says /EFI/redhat/grubx64.efi could not be found.  sure
> enough if i drop to command prompt and do an 'ls' no drives are
> returned
>
> is there something funny about this disk controller?  or is there some
> other step in grub2 that i need to do in order to see the drives when
> the drivers are nvme?
>
> if i boot the system via the disk controller, selected from the
> one-time boot menu, the server does boot
>