r8169 PXE boot problems

[Steve Jardine]

BTW, the Gigabyte MB is what I am using. To get it to work with PXE you have to configure it separately in the BIOS. It is the "Bootrom" selection. Poor choice of words I tell you. PXE is accurate. What is bootrom? PXE? Bootp? *hurmph*

   For the Gb MB use the r8169s driver code if anyone is interested.

   Steve

On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 20:31:43 -0700
"Lonni J Friedman" <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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