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

[Michael B. <mb...@fe...>]

On 27 Aug 2002, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > > I applied both the pcbios patch and the the memsizes patch.  Now, I just
> > > get:
> > > Searching for server (DHCP)...
> > > ..Me:192.168.2.11, Server 192.168.2.6, Gateway 192.168.2.6
> > > Loading 192.168.2.6:lts/vmlinuz-2.4.9-ltsp-5 ...(NBI)
> > > It now freezes at this point, requiring a hard reboot.
> Hmm. So it dies before transmitting any packets.
> > I then modified the /etc/dhcpd.conf file to grab the 3c509.fd0 and received
> > the following:
> The rom image?
> > Searching for server (DHCP)...
> > ..Me:192.168.2.11, Server 192.168.2.6, Gateway 192.168.2.6
> > Loading 192.168.2.6:lts/bootrom ...(NBI)...........Unable to Load file
> > <sleep>
> > <abort>
> > There were no hard frezes with this file.
> So no change with that file at all...
> Very strange.
> I have sent you some romimages in a seperate message, (
> I don't want to spam the list with them) but testing them
> will confirm if there is something in your toolchain that is
> causing problems.

I think I'm seeing the same problem.  I'm getting total garbage in the
E820 map.  I added a config option IGNORE_E820_MAP that forces use of the
"fake" memory map used when the e820 calls fail, which gets it to the
point of "Loading 10.1.0.1:boot-8139too.nbi ...(NBI)" at which point it
locks up and requires a hard reset.

Ideas, toolchain test, etc. welcome.

Michael Brown
http://www.fensystems.co.uk