Re: diskless boot with eepro fails

[dman]

On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 08:02:52PM +0900, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
| At Fri, 12 Apr 2002 17:13:28 -0500,
| dman wrote:
| > I presume not since the driver is identical.  (I checked to see if it
| > was newer than grub's, but it isn't)  If you have no other
| > suggestions, I could try RTFMing to see if I can try booting with
| > etherboot.
| 
| That's important to examine where the problem lies. If Etherboot works
| but GRUB doesn't work, the glue code between Etherboot and GRUB is
| buggy. If Etherboot doesn't work either, the driver is buggy. In the
| latter case, we need to fix Etherboot, since it is the upstream
| package.

With etherboot (built with all default options) I get this :

    Etherboot 5.0.6 (GPL) Tagged ELF for [EEPRO]
    Boot from (N)etwork or from (L)ocal? N
    Probing...[EEPRO]No adapter found
    <sleep>
    <abort>


I'm not so sure that's a bug, though.  This card might just not be
supported for diskless booting.  I found a spare 342MB hard disk to
work with, and I get lots of errors trying to insmod the "eepro"
module.  However, there is an 'eexpress' module in the linux 2.4
kernel which works.

-D

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