Re: grub is stuck with an on-board eepro100

[Yedidyah Bar-David]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 03:52:02PM +0900, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> At Thu, 31 Jan 2002 15:02:30 +0200,
> Yedidyah Bar-David wrote:
> > Besides hoping for a solution, I have a question: Is it possible to
> > add a pseudo-driver that will use the PXE? How difficult would it be
> > for me to do, assuming I don't have much experience with such low-level
> > programming.
> 
> Yes, that's possible. And, I think that is even better, because it is
> desirable that one boot image can support multiple NICs.

Of course it's desirable, but is it possible? I don't really know grub,
but isn't the fact that it's written in C, in 32bit, means it would be
difficult to call 16 bit APIs? I downloaded the PXE specs, and looked
at the pxelinux source (all asm), and don't really know what to do.
E.g., how do I write an function in asm that is callable from C?

> 
> Also, I'd appreciate if you can test Etherboot-5.0.5 with the machine
> in which you have the problem. Such information could help us greatly.

I tried Etherboot-5.0.5, and the sympthoms are mostly the same.
What else should I try?

> 
> Thanks,
> Okuji

Thanks,

        Didi