Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Feb 2006 07:04:31 +0100 | From | Knut Petersen <> | Subject | netboot / nfsroot problems |
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Hi Hans Peter,
You asked Carlos Carvalho and me if we care to try
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hpa/linux-2.6-klibc.git
Netbooting does work for me now without any problems, please see
http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0601.3/2128.html and http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0601.3/2322.html
Some time after the last msg netboot stoped to work again, reenabling pio for the 8139 solved that problem again.
At that time I thought I found an 8139too bug, but the report of Carlos shows that I might have been wrong. Two possibilities remain:
- Both the 8139 and the Intel NIC drivers are broken in a way that allows them to work reliably in normal operation, but that prevents them to receive ip packets during ip autoconfig.
- Some code that both these cards use during ip autoconfig is broken.
Netbooting a VIA rhine system worked without any problems, it worked with _exactly_ the same setups that failed for 8139too.
Do you still believe that our problems could be solved by the code in your git tree? I would have to install git here first, but I will do it if necessary.
I asked Carlos to try to boot with the netconsole code enabled as this changes the nic init and thus _could_ help, unfortunately I received no answer up to now.
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