Thank you for help. 2009/11/19 Shao Miller <[email protected]>:
> There are two Control-B prompts from gPXE, one during POST and another when > it's gPXE's turn to boot. In general, it's best to avoid the POST-time > prompt, since gPXE will get going before POST has completed, and we've seen > scenarios where the memory map is incomplete. Also, other devices might not > have initialized, such as a RAID controller providing an INT 0x13 hook for > HDD access. I didn't realize that. Unfortuately I see only one prompt. I am afraid this is the one during POST... So it might explain my issues, but I still hope it's bnx2 driver issue... This also makes me a bit affraid that Intel PRO/1000 ET will not be able to boot-up with nc380 inside if it will allow full cycle of POST.. > It's possible to run out of option ROM space by having too many option > ROMs. Removing cards or possibly disabling them in BIOS setup might help. This is highly possible, but I didn't realize that when I was flashing my nc380t (which is dual-chipset). I have 75KB gPXE for first chipset and unknown size HP iSCSI boot in second chipset - I didn't disable.- my serious fault. This leaves 53 KB for VGA and HP iSCSI so I have probably irreversibly damaged my NIC. > I've seen a gPXE ROM recently rebooting a particular model I have here, much > as you've described. I'll try to find the time to look into it. Thanks. That's not critical issue for me because I do not use VSA board for any serious application. > Note that recently I tried to SAN-boot an HP ProLiant ML370 G5 computer, but > the Windows had a Blue Screen of Death. Quite familiar with SAN-booting, > this suggests to me that the Windows NIC drivers might not be capable of > completing the SAN-boot; perhaps they rely on user-land components or > perhaps there's a filter driver that needs to be found and enabled at > boot-time. I don't know if this relates to your situation at all, but > wanted to share. I hope it will work with intel stuff and Windows 2008 R2, because in Intel *marketing* stuff there is a lot about iSCSI boot feature... I have also browsed support section and there are lots of tools to do this. It seems to be quite-well supported - opposite to HP nc380T. > > Good luck! Thanks! _______________________________________________ gPXE mailing list [email protected] http://etherboot.org/mailman/listinfo/gpxe
