iPXE and HP Elitebook Gen10

[fl000000]

Hi,

On the new generation 10 of HP Elitebook, the iPXE boot don't work, for example on 650G10.

Stuck on "iPXE initialising devices".

By the way the bios/uefi on this new generation is very slow.

I am on the latest bios version.

Is it a known problem ?

[JamesTomFR]

Hi !

Unfortunately, i don't have an answer.
I've juste  bought 14 HP EliteBook 640 G10 and i have the same problem, i am stucked on "iPXE initialising devices".
I've tried every parameters in uefi menu but nothing worked.

Do you use a FOG server ?  I read some interesting topics : https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/8449/ipxe-initialising-devices/4

And https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/15169/pxe-boot-issue-with-hp-probook-450-g8-realtek-nic/18

I hope it will be helpful.

[fl000000]

It works with snp.efi

But have always the problem of very slow start BIOS on this Gen10

[Win4All_2022]

We have bought EliteBook 840 G10 notebooks and are experiencing the same issue .

@HP: Will HP fix this in the next BIOS-Update?

[JamesTomFR]

Hello !

My problem is solved, in fact, you must configure your DHCP in order to send the snponly.efi file instead of ipxe.efi file.

However, the snponly.efi file may not work with all the computers of your computer park.

Hope it will help !

[fl000000]

Just resolve the network boot 😉

Don't resolve the unresponsive and slow bios on this 10gen...

[Win4All_2022]

Hi JamesTomFR

Thank you for the quick reply. We have approx. 40 computer models that are working with iPXE and it seems HP has lot of bugs in their PXE firmware, since they have updated the realtek pxe firmware with each update (two updates the last two weeks). We would like to avoid cchanging the system, since we do not know if these computer models will still boot on iPXE after such a  change.

[JamesTomFR]

Hello !

I'm sorry for your issue.
Do you have an event in the BIOS logs ?

What did you try until now ?