[syslinux] 3.86-pre1 gpxelinux.0 SIS900 long boot time / fails to boot / no entries in tftp server log

Andrew Stuart andrew at shopcusa.com
Wed Mar 17 13:07:02 PDT 2010


On 3/16/2010 11:57 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> The SiS900 ROM problems are well known, and the best thing you can do
> with it is replace it with a gPXE hardware driver, either via chainload
> or ROM flashing. The vendor PXE stack for that card is simply hopelessly
> broken.
>
> It used to be quite the FAQ years ago when this was still a common card.
>
> -hpa

I knew as much, I guess I was just wondering if they improved enough 
somewhere, since pxelinux worked fine, and gpxelinux didn't.

Thanks for the confirmation.

-A




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