Bug 6532 - uEFI Networking booting lacks clear indication of what's going on
Summary: uEFI Networking booting lacks clear indication of what's going on
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
Alias: None
Product: MinnowBoard MAX
Classification: Hardware Platforms
Component: hw-minnowmax (show other bugs)
Version: 1C A1
Hardware: MinnowBoard Max x86_64
: Medium normal
Target Milestone: A1 Release
Assignee: David_Wei
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Reported: 2014-07-14 19:50 UTC by John 'Warthog9' Hawley
Modified: 2017-06-13 18:02 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Documentation change: No (bug/feature does not impact docs)

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friendly message"Start PXE Over IPv4 or IPv6" (2.03 MB, application/x-zip-compressed)
2014-12-03 03:02 UTC, Lu_Shifei 		no flags Details
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Description John 'Warthog9' Hawley 2014-07-14 19:50:31 UTC 
When a MAX gets to the point of booting over the network all that's displayed is:

._

and a long timeout for that to clear.  There's no real indication of *WHAT* it's actually doing.

It would be nice if we could add:

Attemping Network Boot (this takes <timeout> seconds to try)._

to the message so that it's clear to the users what's going on
Comment 1 John 'Warthog9' Hawley 2014-09-08 20:33:31 UTC 
explicitly forcing a network boot I got

. <pause>

.. <pause>

then a network boot failure with 0.73.
Comment 2 Moso 2014-10-22 15:56:55 UTC 
From 0.73 source, define NETWORK_IP6_ENABLE in bld_vlv.bat which pulls in NetworkPkg/UefiPxeBcDxe/UefiPxeBcDxe.inf. This more modern PXE code has more user friendly message.

>>Start PXE over IPv4..
Comment 3 David_Wei 2014-11-14 00:52:36 UTC 
Thanks. We just enabled IPV6, which would show the friendly message. It will be available in 0.75 release.
Comment 4 Lu_Shifei 2014-12-03 03:02:04 UTC 
Created attachment 2273 [details]
friendly message"Start PXE Over IPv4 or IPv6"

Attachment is test image with show friendly message "Start PXE over IPv4 or IPv6".
Comment 5 John 'Warthog9' Hawley 2014-12-15 22:41:17 UTC 
Minor nit-pick, I'd love to see some sort of not-dead indicator while it's trying to do the booting (just printing a '.' every so often would be fine), but this is a lot clearer in 0.76
Comment 6 Stephen K Jolley 2017-06-13 18:02:54 UTC 
We are no longer tracking in Yocto Project Bugzilla MinnowBoard and MinnowBoard-MAX HW and firmware bugs.