[syslinux] mboot.c32/Xen compatible

[Chris Fanning]

Hi,

> In general, if you want to be on the safe side, I would go with an Intel
> card.  Their PXE stack is very mature, and their cards are flash
> upgradeable should you have a problem.

Thanks.

> But obviously, yes, it should work either way.  I would be very
> interested in the *exact* failure mode,

I have two of these 3c905CX-TXM (03-0247-000 E) installed on two different pc's.

When they boot, initrd gets loaded and then they freeze with.

Booting: MBI=0x000100c0, entry 0x00100000

and the other box

Booting: MBI=0x000100a8, entry 0x00100000

I hope that is what you're looking for.

Thankyou once again.
Chris.

On 3/15/07, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
> Ram Yalamanchili wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > I dont know the answer, but to clarify the network card isn't related
> > to mboot module. Thats part of the pxelinux's UNDI driver I believe.
> >
>
> Actually, PXELINUX talks to PXE, not to UNDI (fine distinction, I know.)
>
> But obviously, yes, it should work either way.  I would be very
> interested in the *exact* failure mode, but in your case it was probably
> PXE stack version dependent; 3Com had a lot of problems in the early
> versions of their PXE code.
>
> In general, if you want to be on the safe side, I would go with an Intel
> card.  Their PXE stack is very mature, and their cards are flash
> upgradeable should you have a problem.
>
>         -hpa
>
>