Re: [Etherboot-developers] 4.7.2x Failed to boot local

[Robb M. <ma...@ac...>]

Further to previous email (with wrong subject "Re: [Etherboot-developers]
rtl_disable and random kernel crash. "),  I have been digging further into
boot local failures.

I have the following additional comments:
1) Boot failure recovery should _NOT_ invoke INT 19h if "NOINT19H" was
defined (this code is at line 397 in v4.7.23 loader.S).  It should instead
return to the system BIOS via "retf", since it will have grabbed control via
the option ROM init entry at offset 3.
2) Current structure does not allow for building non-PCI ROMs, but with PNP
enabled (i.e., ISA PNP).  Is this an oversight, or is it assumed that
etherboot ROMs for an ISA PNP card would simply ignore the PCI links?

Robb Main.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Yap" <ke...@nl...>
To: <eth...@li...>
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 9:17 AM
Subject: Re: [Etherboot-developers] 4.7.2x Failed to boot local


> >Since I have point out the problem months ago, the Etherboot 4.7.2x
> >failed to boot locally after selecting (L) at the prompt. The problem
> >still exist in 4.7.23 ... I concluded that if people burn a eprom to
> >test the system will find very inconvinient during testing, since  you
> >have to take off the eprom everytime you want to boot back to the disk.
>
> Has it ever worked in any previous release with that BIOS? If not then
> the problem remains unsolved.
>
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