r8169 PXE boot problems

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 8:21 PM, David A. Bandel <david.bandel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
>  I have 18 PXE clients.  16 of them (with various ethernet cards) boot
>  from a central server just fine.  Two have the Realtek 8169 cards (not
>  my choice, built into the motherboard) that won't boot.  They start to
>  boot, then after the kernel takes over they go eth0 down and stop.
>
>  Google suggests I'm not the only one with this problem, but I didn't
>  find a clear solution.
>
>  I'm open to suggestions for how I might get past this snag.

Its most likely a bug in the PXE ROM.  The only thing you can do is
verify that you're using the latest SBIOS.  Beyond that, you're out of
luck.

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