[syslinux] [pxelinux] kernel not recognising NIC after boot

[Igmar Palsenberg]

Hi,

I've got a system with a 3com 590 NIC (Boomerang / Vortex), and instructed 
it to  boot using PXE.

System load the initrd and the kernel image from the FTP server, boots the 
image and starts the install routine. So far so good.

The strange part is that after the PXE boot completes the kernel doesn't 
detec the NIC. It's not a driver issue, the same kernel on a floppy does 
detec the NIC.

Any hints ?? I suspect that the PXE boot somehow screws up the PCI config 
and the kernel get's confused, but that doesn't explain why pci=nobios 
fails.

Any suggestions are welcome.



	Regards,

		Igmar


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