Re: [Etherboot-discuss] IBM x3455 series machine and gPXE problem

[Geert S. <sta...@st...>]

Op 14-12-2007 om 11:14 schreef Viswanath Krishnamurthy:
> I am trying to get gPXE up and running on a IBM AMD dual core machine x3455,
> running BIOS 1.38, the system just hangs. The card I am using to burn a
> simple driver (pnic like) which is 20K in size. A message appears "gPXE
> detected pNp bios" and the system hangs. The device is question is not in
> the boot order so the exec entry point should not be called at all. Only the
> init entry point is called where it prints out the message and machine
> hangs. The same card works fine on Dell/HP/ and other machines.

Please confirm (or deny and elaborate )

The card is a PCI card which contains only a ROM ( or Flash EPROM ),
it doesn't have a ethernet chip on it. The motherboard's NIC is used.
( no cheap network interface card with EPROM socket is used to
include an extra BIOS ROM which has code to use the MOBO NIC)

All checked computers have the same processor.
( not that the x3455 is the only dual core AMD )


> What debug output do I need to collect? 

Not sure, but I would build with 'DEBUG=pci', example given:

    make bin/gpxe.dsk DEBUG=pci


That is because 'pci' does, AFAIK, scan which card to use.


> I will try to contact IBM support center also on this issue

Please keep us (at least me ;- ) informed.


> Thanks,
> Viswa

Cheers
Geert Stappers