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

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

>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.

Thanks, will fix. However very few people use NOINT19H as it's not
recommended, it bypasses BIOS initialisation of other devices. Only
people with weird BIOSes (e.g. SBCs) need this.

>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?

It's an oversight. I know they exist but haven't come across any ISA PNP
NICs myself, and these can be set to non-PNP mode and use legacy ROMs
anyway. If you wish to fix this please go ahead.