Re: 2.6 vs 2.4: pxe booting system won't restart

From: Alan Cox
Date: Wed Nov 10 2004 - 14:46:02 EST


On Mer, 2004-11-10 at 18:36, Brian Jackson wrote:
> I'm having a problem with 2.6 (many versions), and my Via Epia M10000
> not rebooting correctly. 2.4 works fine. The problem is after the
> computer restarts, and the pxe stuff from the bios tries to do it's
> thing, it fails. I get the following error:
> PXE_M0F: Exiting Intel PXE ROM.
>
> Then the bios tries to fallback to other means of booting, and there
> are none. Anybody got any clues where to start looking for fixes?

Remove the kernel code that powers down the ethernet chip. If that works
then poke VIA.

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