Does the machine have the correct “filename” set in your DHCP server? I
sometimes forget to change it from the BIOS file to the EFI one and get
about your result.

Best regards
Robert


On Mon, 12 Sep 2022 11:20:46 -0700
"Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)" <lyn...@orthanc.ca> wrote:

> We have one of the above (X12STH-SYS motherboard) that's refusing
> to PXE boot. It's connecting to DHCP and downloading the pxeboot
> file (according to tftpd), and the bios appears to be printing a
> message saying the boot image was successfully loaded, but it only
> stays on the screen for about 200ms before getting erased, so it's
> hard to be sure.  Anyway, immediately after printing that message
> the system immediately moves on to the next NIC and tries to PXE
> boot from it.
> 
> I'm curious if anyone has run into the same issue.  We're trying
> to figure out "why," and at this stage all we can think of is some
> setting in the BIOS is upsetting the machine to the point where it
> won't run the image.  But I'm stumped.  I've never seen anything
> like this before.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas?
> 
> --lyndon
> 

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