[syslinux] pxelinux problem

[H. Peter Anvin]

Eric P. McCoy wrote:
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> I don't _think_ that's the problem, but unfortunately I can't rule it
> out.  I have had bad clock skew problems on this machine in the past,
> but they seemed to be tied both to the onboard NIC (which isn't the
> one pxelinux is using) and Linux.  FreeBSD was able to use the onboard
> NIC with no skew problems.  Some limited correspondence with
> kernel-related people suggested that it was a Linux issue, not a
> hardware one: basically, the system timer interrupt handler was
> getting called every time an interrupt arrived on the NIC (and yes,
> they did have different IRQs), which meant the system clock was
> getting boosted by 1/100 sec every time the NIC generated an
> interrupt.
> 
> So it's possible that's the problem, but I think it's unlikely.  Also
> the prompt (which now appears correctly) does indeed stay around for
> about 30 seconds (which is what I have it set to do) before going with
> the default.
> 

Hm.  I'll look in that area to see if there are any obvious reasons for
this behaviour.

	-hpa