Re: [Etherboot-developers] [COMMIT] 5.1.2+ boot from disk.

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ke...@us... (Ken Yap) writes:

> >I got a bit further than you. I'm using a 3c509.  I got my Etherboot ROM
> >to load another ROM image and that worked, the 5.1.2rc3 image started
> >executing, and prompted me for N or L. I chose N and it said Probing
> >pci, no BIOS32\n Probing isa...[3c5x9] blah blah, and then froze after
> >printing the MAC address.
> 
> Oh and the 3 second timeout didn't work so the PCBIOS timer is probably
> not working. That may be the same reason for the freeze actually.

Hmm?  3 second timeout.

Was it a compressed rom image?

At the moment I would only expect non-compressed images which still
run at RELOCADDR to work reliably.  The compressed case relies on
being relocatable, and decompreses from RELOCADDR to a little further
down.   

Eric