Trouble booting into iPXE from new HP Probook 440 G11


  • Hi there,

    We are purchasing some HP ProBook 440 G11 laptops. I'm trying to network boot using iPXE and I'm having trouble. On the laptop, the process stops at "iPXE Initialising devices..." Here's a screenshot:

    PXL_20250331_165012957.jpg

    On the server, when I check the logs viewer in the TFTPD64_gui.exe, I see the following:

    Connection received from 10.14.2.19 on port 1897 [31/03 11:37:06.603]
    Read request for file <proxy/efi64/pxeboot.0>. Mode octet [31/03 11:37:06.603]
    OACK: <tsize=1020416,blksize=1468,> [31/03 11:37:06.604]
    Using local port 58007 [31/03 11:37:06.604]
    Peer returns ERROR <User aborted the transfer> -> aborting transfer [31/03 11:37:06.604]
    Connection received from 10.14.2.19 on port 1898 [31/03 11:37:06.604]
    Read request for file <proxy/efi64/pxeboot.0>. Mode octet [31/03 11:37:06.604]
    OACK: <blksize=1468,> [31/03 11:37:06.604]
    Using local port 58008 [31/03 11:37:06.604]
    <proxy\efi64\pxeboot.0>: sent 696 blks, 1020416 bytes in 0 s. 0 blk resent [31/03 11:37:06.747]
    Connection received from 10.14.2.19 on port 1899 [31/03 11:37:06.763]
    Read request for file <proxy\efi64\autoexec.ipxe>. Mode octet [31/03 11:37:06.763]
    File <proxy\efi64\autoexec.ipxe> : error 2 in system call CreateFile The system cannot find the file specified. [31/03 11:37:06.763]

    Everything works on all of our other devices. Also, I tried updating the Kernel in the boot menu to the newest version available, "6.13.4x64-updated".

    Any ideas on what I can do? Thank you!


  • can you try using the ipxe snp only or snp file


  • @theopenem_admin Sure, I just tried both of those options in the "PXE settings" menu. I got the same result.


  • I could try building the latest version of iPXE but it may take a few days


  • @theopenem_admin Sure, that sounds good. We are in no rush. I did have a similar problem a few years back and a new iPXE build did solve my problem back then. Thank you so much!