Re: [Etherboot-developers] PXE

[<ke...@us...>]

>Could someone tell me what the state of the PXE code is when trying to
>use it with Linux?? When I try
>
>bin32/e1000-ecop.rom,   the code produced works fine :)
>
>when I try
>
>bin32/e1000-ecop.pxe,  the code produced doesn't have the 55 AA
>signature and the file seems very small. It also doesn't work.

Why would it have a 55 AA signature? It's not a PXE ROM image, it's an
Etherboot image meant to be loaded with PXE. See the doco.

>Incidentally I believe the MAX_BOOTP_RETRIES in etherboot.h should be
>reduced to say 5, the current value of 20 results in a timeout of about
>30,000,000 seconds or about 9.5 years. 5 gives about 5 minutes. The
>other MAX_RETRY values may also need to be reduced.

See Config for documentation of BACKOFF_LIMIT.

>I have updated makerom with a new compiler flag to produce ROMS in
>increments of 2K which is the size that modern BIOSes search in. This is
>only important if the amount of option ROM space is limited.

makerom has been rewritten in Perl (currently in CVS) so if you want to
see your changes considered, you'll have to work on that version.

>I have made a number of other small changes which I will document and feed
>back if anyone is interested.

Post away.