[syslinux] PXE 0.99h stacks... any chance?

[Paolo Salvan]

Michael Quaintance ha scritto:
> As I am a firmware engineer for a living, I am strongly opposed to 
> unofficial firmware updates and I dislike performing official ones. I 
> have had too many updates of my own code go wrong for unexpected reasons!
> 
> Having checked the PCI device ID under Windows, the on-board network 
> card _is_ supported under Etherboot (Intel 8255x,  PCI dev id 0x1229). 
> Is chainloading Etherboot from PXE likely to be more or less problematic 
> than using a known buggy 0.99h for PXELINUX all the way?

Well, using a native etherboot driver as second-stage loader will 
completely discard the PXE driver of your NIC.... so if you get the 
second stage loader loaded by your buggy NIC, it will ignore PXE stack 
and proceed on his own... it is a nice last-resort solution...

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Paolo Salvan
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