Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:36:50 -0600 | From | Brian Jackson <> | Subject | Re: 2.6 vs 2.4: pxe booting system won't restart |
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On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 18:37:31 +0000, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: > On Mer, 2004-11-10 at 18:36, Brian Jackson wrote: > > > > I'm having a problem with 2.6 (many versions), and my Via Epia M10000 > > not rebooting correctly. 2.4 works fine. The problem is after the > > computer restarts, and the pxe stuff from the bios tries to do it's > > thing, it fails. I get the following error: > > PXE_M0F: Exiting Intel PXE ROM. > > > > Then the bios tries to fallback to other means of booting, and there > > are none. Anybody got any clues where to start looking for fixes? > > Remove the kernel code that powers down the ethernet chip. If that works
Yay, looks like this bit near line 1950 of via-rhine.c: /* Hit power state D3 (sleep) */ writeb(readb(ioaddr + StickyHW) | 0x03, ioaddr + StickyHW);
I removed that, and it works like a charm now. Thank you very much.
> then poke VIA.
Poke them to fix the driver or to fix the bios?
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