Re: SiS900 / Etherboot / Symantec Ghost-2.5

Hi,

And first, thanks to Thomas Miletich, who patched the SiS900 to make it
work properly. I think next version of gPXE will include the working
sis900.pxe driver.


To make it work, I had to configure my DHCP server to chainload the
sis900 gPXE driver. Here is my config :

group {

   if exists user-class and option user-class = "gPXE" {
       filename "/pxelinux.0";
   } else {
       filename "/sis900.pxe";
   }

# [....] hosts ....

}

Next configuration steps are classical, i won't detail it here.

With this new gPXE driver, I was able to run syslinux, from which I boot
Symantec Ghost.

Cheers,




Thomas Miletich a écrit :
> Hi
> I don't know about Etherboot, but it it possible to use Ghost with
> gPXE under certain circumstances.
>
> - Depending on the image type you use, you have to prevent gPXE from
> shutting down the UNDI stack.
>
> - The NIC driver has to enable all relevant interrupt sources.
>
> Unfortunately the current sis900 driver isn't enabling any interrupts
> at all. I attached a small patch for the latest git source code of
> gPXE to enable all interrupt sources for sis900. I don't have a sis900
> card, so this patch is totally untested.
> I uploaded a precompiled version at
> http://etherboot.org/share/meteger/sis900.pxe
>
> Please let us know if this changes anything for you.
>
> Thomas
>
> 2009/9/8 Hubert Mercier <[email protected]>:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have been working for quite a long time on these buggy network chips,
>> with unsufficient results. I explane :
>>
>> At the beginning, syslinux simply hangs the machine. PXE is buggy on the
>> SiS900. So i use a workaround, chainloading etherboot (sis900.zpxe). It
>> works quite well, and syslinux works just fine, as well as many other
>> tools. But I can't manage to make Symantec Ghost work properly : I got i
>> booting, but network menus of the interface are greyed... And I really
>> have no more idea...
>>
>> If someone has a clue...
>>
>> Thanks !
>>
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