[syslinux] pxelinux in Asus P55T2P4

Andreas Holzhammer aholzhammer at verio.net
Sat Jul 12 08:03:47 PDT 2003


Solved :-/

disabling  L1 and L2 caches resulted in a working - though slow - 
system. Looks like some part of the hardware is broken, and this was not 
detected by my memory tests :-(

Sorry,

Andreas

Andreas Holzhammer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> here the complete log:
> 
> -- snip ----------------------------------------------------
> Initializing Intel Boot Agent Version 2.2
> 
> Intel UNDI, PXE-2.0 (build 067)
> Copyright (C) 1997,1998 Intel Corporation
> 
> DHCP MAC ADDR: <MAC ADDR>
> CLIENT IP: 10.0.0.6 MASK: 255.255.255.0 DHCP IP: 10.0.0.1
> GATEWAY IP: 10.0.0.1
> 
> PXELINUX 2.04 2003-04-16 Copyright (C) 1994-2003 H. Peter Anvin
> Found PXENV+ structure
> PXE API version is 0201
> UNDI data segment at    00099200
> UNDI data segment size: 4D30
> UNDI code segment at:   009DF30
> UNDI code segment size: 1E70
> PXE entry point found (we hope) at 9DF3:0106
> My IP addresse seems to be 0A000006 10.0.0.6
> ip=10.0.0.6:10.0.0.1:10.0.0.1:255.255.255.0
> TFTP prefix: /tftpboot/
> Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/0A000006
> Missing parameter in config file
> Loading vmlinuz....................
> Loading initrd.img.....................................................
> Ready.
> Uncompressing Linux...
> 
> crc error
> 
> -- System halted_
> -- snip ----------------------------------------
> 
> pxelinux.cfg/0A000006 looks like this:
> DEFAULT vmlinuz
> KERNEL vmlinuz
> APPEND initrd=initrd.img lang= devfs=nomount nofb ramdisk_size=9216
> 
> the EEPro is a separate card, if i install it into a different PC the 
> remote boot process works fine.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Andreas
> 
> Josef Siemes wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> Andreas Holzhammer <aholzhammer at verio.net> schrieb am 10.07.03 13:28:11:
>>
>>> as a new user to pxelinux I'm having trouble booting an Asus P55T2P4 
>>> from an Intel Etherexpress Pro card with PXE bootrom.
>>>
>>> I'm using pxelinux 2.04 (tried 2.05pre2 as well) with a Redhat 8.0 
>>> kernel (2.4.18) and ramdisk image (for pure testing purposes).
>>> The Mainboard I use is a P55T2P4, Rev. 2, newest Bios 0207, 80MB Ram, 
>>> PCI VGA card and the EEPro.
>>>
>>> dhcp,tftp work fine, pxelinux loads the kernel and the ramdisk image, 
>>> but decompression of the kernel crashes the system:
>>> ------------------------------
>>> Loading vmlinuz
>>> Loading initrd.img
>>> Ready.
>>> Uncompressing Linux...
>>>
>>> crc error
>>
>>
>>
>> Please tell exactly what happens before 'Loading', i.e. what the PXE rom
>> and pxelinux tell. Of special interest is the version of the PXE rom.
>>
>> Is the eepro a card or is it on-board?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Josef
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