etherboot-developers

Re: [Etherboot-developers] 4.7.23 problems

[Ken Y. <ke...@nl...>]

|Now the bad news:
|Linux hangs immediately after "Loading Linux...".
|DOS loads seemingly fine but crashes after pressing any key.
|If one tries to do a local boot (by pressing "L") machine hangs.
|All those things happen even if I put the network card 
|with Etherboot flashed on it to a different motherboard 
|(on which Etherboot always worked fine): Intel L440GX+.

What happens with 4.7.22? If that also crashes in the same way then it's
not a .23 problem per se but something else unresolved.  I know this
doesn't help you much but it at least narrows down the problem.  If .22
works (the EEPRO100 driver didn't change in between) then I want to know
about it.

Re: [Etherboot-developers] 4.7.23 problems

[Ken Y. <ke...@nl...>]

>> What happens with 4.7.22? If that also crashes in the same way then it's
>> not a .23 problem per se but something else unresolved.  I know this
>> doesn't help you much but it at least narrows down the problem.  If .22
>> works (the EEPRO100 driver didn't change in between) then I want to know
>> about it.
>
>4.7.22 does not crash.
>It is also not recognized on the Tyan S2510 motherboard with AMI BIOS.
>In other words: Etherboot 4.7.22 flashed on Intel Pro100+ card is not
>called from BIOS at boot time on this motherboard.
>Flashed eepro100 4.7.22 Etherboot is recognized and runs fine on Intel
>L440GX+ motherboard.
>Also, 4.7.23 runs fine on Tyan motherboard when run from a boot floppy.

Grr, BIOS issues again. I wish there was an easy way to determine
conformance or not of a BIOS to the standard.

Re: [Etherboot-developers] 4.7.23 problems

[<ebi...@ln...>]

Ken Yap <ke...@nl...> writes:

> >> What happens with 4.7.22? If that also crashes in the same way then it's
> >> not a .23 problem per se but something else unresolved.  I know this
> >> doesn't help you much but it at least narrows down the problem.  If .22
> >> works (the EEPRO100 driver didn't change in between) then I want to know
> >> about it.
> >
> >4.7.22 does not crash.
> >It is also not recognized on the Tyan S2510 motherboard with AMI BIOS.
> >In other words: Etherboot 4.7.22 flashed on Intel Pro100+ card is not
> >called from BIOS at boot time on this motherboard.
> >Flashed eepro100 4.7.22 Etherboot is recognized and runs fine on Intel
> >L440GX+ motherboard.
> >Also, 4.7.23 runs fine on Tyan motherboard when run from a boot floppy.
> 
> Grr, BIOS issues again. I wish there was an easy way to determine
> conformance or not of a BIOS to the standard.

:)

One of the reasons why I'm working on linuxBIOS for a long term
solution.  Then if you have a real problem you read the source or
recompile a new BIOS....

Eric

Re: [Etherboot-developers] 4.7.23 problems

[Ken Y. <ke...@nl...>]

>4.7.22 does not crash.
>It is also not recognized on the Tyan S2510 motherboard with AMI BIOS.
>In other words: Etherboot 4.7.22 flashed on Intel Pro100+ card is not
>called from BIOS at boot time on this motherboard.
>Flashed eepro100 4.7.22 Etherboot is recognized and runs fine on Intel
>L440GX+ motherboard.
>Also, 4.7.23 runs fine on Tyan motherboard when run from a boot floppy.

Actually I would say that 4.7.23 is more correct than 4.7.22. At least
it is recognised by the main BIOS. Nothing interesting can be said about
version that isn't even recognised. The freezes you are having after
loading with 4.7.23 are another issue that is yet to be understood.

Re: [Etherboot-developers] 4.7.23 problems

[Tomasz B. <to...@Za...>]

> What happens with 4.7.22? If that also crashes in the same way then it's
> not a .23 problem per se but something else unresolved.  I know this
> doesn't help you much but it at least narrows down the problem.  If .22
> works (the EEPRO100 driver didn't change in between) then I want to know
> about it.

4.7.22 does not crash.
It is also not recognized on the Tyan S2510 motherboard with AMI BIOS.
In other words: Etherboot 4.7.22 flashed on Intel Pro100+ card is not
called from BIOS at boot time on this motherboard.
Flashed eepro100 4.7.22 Etherboot is recognized and runs fine on Intel
L440GX+ motherboard.
Also, 4.7.23 runs fine on Tyan motherboard when run from a boot floppy.

Tomasz.