Re: AW: Problems with "Keep BASE"

On Apr 17, 2005, at 4:02 PM, Stefan Blomen wrote:
>> Stefan Blomen wrote:
>>> Error, the "Keep BASE" setting in this image can only be
>>> used with an MBA 4.x or PXE ROM
>>>
>>> I tried the following:
>>>
>>> - Setting the etherboot option "PXELOADER_KEEP_ALL": No change
>>> - Using imgedt.exe from the 3COM tools to set "Keep BASE" to "No" 
>>> for the
>>>   file "PXE Multicard Ghost Client.sys": No change
>>>
>>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> You could try compiling with the PXE_STRICT option.
>> Tim

> @Tim:
> Yes, I compiled with PXE_STRICT and aven PXE_DHCP_STRICT, without 
> success.
> And, in the meantime I switched to Version 5.4.0.

> @Geert:
> The problem is not "mba.pxe". It is just the PXE menu boot file, which 
> loads
> the "*.sys" file which is too big to be loaded directly. The "Keep 
> BASE"
> error message is coming from here.
> Nevertheless there must be a problem with etherboot, because if I use 
> the
> original flashrom (containing emboot) it works, but if I use the 
> etherboot
> flashrom I get the "Keep BASE" error message. The combination of 
> "mba.pxe"
> and "*.sys" also works for many other NICs that are PXE capable (Intel,
> Broadcom, ...).
>
> The original flashrom is no option for certain reasons, and etherboot 
> is the
> only part that could be modified (open source has always been more 
> flexible
> than commercial products).

Stefan,

Thank you very much for all your testing.  Etherboot's PXE stack is 
constantly improving, but there are still some cases where we do not 
interoperate as well as we might like to.

I would like to ask you the favor of using your setup as a test case 
for Etherboot 5.5.  It sounds like debugging it might help us to 
understand where our PXE stack is not interoperating.  I regret our 
code is not yet able to support your PXE needs, but I believe that it 
soon will be able to, and with your help and testing this will happen 
sooner.

When we are ready to do testing, it will be helpful if you can post 
some files so that we can emulate your setup in bochs, to see where it 
fails.

Thanks for working with us to improve Etherboot.

Marty



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