[Grml] boot problems on dell r640

[Michael Prokop]

* Michael Prokop [Sat May 12, 2018 at 01:37:26AM +0200]:
> * Albert Dengg [Wed May 02, 2018 at 08:16:14PM +0200]:

> > i recently got access to an Dell R640 Server and i'm having some
> > issues booting via the virtual cdrom feature on the remote access
> > card that i cannot pinpoint sofar, so maybe somebody can help me
> > to debug this:
> > * with 2017.05, it boots fine, however i have some hardware not
> >   recognized (namely the 10Gb network interfaces)
> > * i tried the testing and sid based daily images (in the later case
> >   also some older versions from 2018-04-30 and 2018-04-23), but
> >   there i cannot boot and i'm getting the following error message
> >   that i cannot really pinpoint:
> >   --
> >   Reloc 0 block size 2756420659 is invalid
> >   Relocation failed: Unsupported
> >   Failed to load image: Unsupported
> >   start_image() returned Unsupported
> >   --
[...]

> That's an interesting one, looks like a problem with the EFI boot.
> Is BIOS boot an option? If so would be interesting to see whether
> this would work then.

> Is someone else seeing something similar or able to reproduce this
> one?

Paul Menzel and I managed to find a fix for this, the daily ISOs
starting by tomorrow (2018-05-31) will ship the fix and this issue
should no longer be present, JFTR.

regards,
-mika-
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