Re: [Etherboot-developers] Sundance Driver Status
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From: <ke...@us...> - 2003-04-14 23:04:19
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>1) Added a 3c905 with 5.0 boot rom to download the ltsp kernel >2) modified the NIC= for the 3c905 to be NIC=sundance >3) the client boots with the 3c905 EB driver and downloads the ltsp >kernel >4) the linux driver loads and it loads the sundance module. >5) The client stops trying to mount the root partition. > >So I am thinking that the problem is in the ltsp initialization of >sundance driver or the linux driver itself. > >What do you think? Is this a valid way to validate that the problem is >probably not in the etherboot driver? I assume you mean you have two NICs in your machine. Sounds reasonable. But you should also try to boot the LTSP kernel off a local disk, and also to boot it on another motherboard to rule out BIOS interactions. |