Re: Etherboot hangs on Dell PowerEdge 1850

Eli Cohen wrote:
> Hi
> I am trying to use the boot over ib driver on a Dell PowerEdge 1850 and
> the machine hangs. I believe this happes some time after the BEV entry
> point gets called since I can see the device in the BIOS boot devices
> list when I enter setup. I cannot see any message printed from
> Etherboot.
> 
> The machine is EM64T (x86_64) with 4 GB ram.
> 
> Does anyone has other experience with this machine? Any idea?
> 
> Thanks
> Eli

Hi Eli

Did you get anywhere with this?  In a previous email to the list Eric 
Beiderman indicated that Etherboot must live in DMAable memory below 4GB.

I am not sure whether this was changed in the 5.4 release.  Try pulling 
some ram to testt hat possibility.  I would have thought that Etherboot 
was in use on systems with greater than 4GB of ram though.

Actually now that I look in relocate.c I remember that etherboot loads 
itself in the highest address below 4GB so I guess that is not the problem.

Sorry I can't help on this one...

Tim


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