On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 5:30 PM, balaji<[email protected]> wrote:
> I have had the same problems... With a Dell Precision 470.
> In my case it was a SATA controller that was enabled/connected.
>
> The pxeboot will load the boot agent however after that there
> will be no network activity. What this means is the PXE agent
> on the NIC is good and can bring down the initial agent. However
> once it gets going, it has trouble communicating over the network.
>
> It has to be an interrupt issue, and I could never figure it out. I pulled
> the SATA disk out, disabled the controller via BIOS and all was good.
>
> Something similar is happening in yours... Check what peripherals
> you have and see if anything that is not necessary can be disabled
> till you get past this boot process.
Hmm, I don't think so. There basically are no other peripherals in
the machine, and I disabled everything except the Ethernet and video
in the BIOS with the same results. My suspicion is that the interrupt
vector isn't being initialized properly.
- Dan C.
