[Etherboot-developers] Re: [Etherboot-users] On-board eepro100

[Yedidyah Bar-D. <di...@po...>]

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:41:09AM +1100, Ken Yap wrote:
> >Today I decided enough is enough, and after many hours of testing,
> >managed to boot both etherboot 5.0.5 and grub 0.91 on my on-board
> >eepro100.
> >
> >The only fix I made, in the end, was to add a 'udelay(4000)' just
> >before 'whereami ("set stats addr.");' in eepro100.c (line 533).
> 
> Ok, have changed it to udelay(10000). Evidently 10 us is not enough.
> Maybe someone miswrote or misread a data sheet. Nobody will notice 10
> ms during initialisation.  Thanks very much for the detective work.

Thanks, but sadly :-(, I just got a new machine, with the same STL2
board, which for some reason doesn't work with neither 4000 nor 10000.
It does hang much later, though - it manages to get the conf file
and open the menu, but hangs when doing dhcp (it does send dhcpdiscover,
but doesn't receive the servers dhcpoffer). Really weird. 2 others
with STL2 boards worked well.
This machine will only run Linux, so grub is not very important to me
(because I will boot it with pxelinux). I also won't have much time
to play with it, since it's being used most of the time (Actually,
if it will work well, it will be the server for http://www.cs.tau.ac.il,
with all of it on NFS). If I will have problems with other machines, I
will try to further investigate.

Anyway, thanks.

> 
> >BTW: the etherboot-5.0.5+megapatch (5.0.6 rc 2) didn't work at all.
> >The machine has frozen during boot with a cleared screen.
> 
> The problem seems to have been found, hopefully.
:-)
> 
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	Didi