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

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

On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Ken Yap wrote:
> >Of course, "fixed it" in this context merely means "getting the correct
> >E820 map".  It still locks up at "Loading 10.1.0.1:boot-8139too.nbi
> >...(NBI)" and requires a hard reset. :-(
> >Next set of ideas?
> I wager that this is now a relocation problem in the 8139 driver. Are you
> building with or without relocation? Have you got an I/O only NIC like
> the 3c509 or NE2000 you can try the latest fixes on first?

Have been building with the default Config file, which doesn't define
-DRELOCATE.

Can someone post a rough outline of what needs to be done to a driver in
order to make it work with 5.1.x?  When building without -DRELOCATE,
should the old drivers work "as is"?

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