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From: Brian Jackson <notiggy@gmail.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6 vs 2.4: pxe booting system won't restart
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:36:50 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fb20c214041110123615f89230@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1100111849.20555.23.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 18:37:31 +0000, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> 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

Yay, looks like this bit near line 1950 of via-rhine.c:
	/* Hit power state D3 (sleep) */
	writeb(readb(ioaddr + StickyHW) | 0x03, ioaddr + StickyHW);

I removed that, and it works like a charm now. Thank you very much.

> then poke VIA.

Poke them to fix the driver or to fix the bios?

> 
>

  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-10 20:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-10 18:36 2.6 vs 2.4: pxe booting system won't restart Brian Jackson
2004-11-10 18:37 ` Alan Cox
2004-11-10 20:36   ` Brian Jackson [this message]
2004-11-10 22:16     ` Alan Cox
2004-11-11 18:43     ` Roger Luethi

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