Subject: Re: Soekris 4801 craziness: pxeboot
To: None <tech-embed@netbsd.org>
From: David Young <dyoung@pobox.com>
List: tech-embed
Date: 10/15/2005 03:33:15
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On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 10:20:27PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> I'm going slightly insane trying to get NetBSD working on a Soekris 
> 4801.  I'll post the different problems separately.
> 
> First, I can't get PXEboot working.  It downloads the first-stage
> bootstrap (pxeboot_ia32.bin), but it can't seem to load
> netbsd-INSTALL.  tcpdump shows that it's being requested:

PXE-booting NetBSD on Soekris boards has been broken since sometime after
NetBSD 1.6.  I just got it to work the other day with the attached patch.

Dave

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Index: pxeboot/pxe.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/src/sys/arch/i386/stand/pxeboot/pxe.c,v
retrieving revision 1.7
diff -u -u -r1.7 pxe.c
--- pxeboot/pxe.c	14 Jun 2005 18:25:16 -0000	1.7
+++ pxeboot/pxe.c	14 Oct 2005 00:37:28 -0000
@@ -446,8 +446,6 @@
 		printf("pxe_fini: PXENV_UNDI_SHUTDOWN failed: 0x%x\n",
 		    shutdown->Status);
 
-	pxe_call(PXENV_UNLOAD_STACK);
-
 	if (unload->Status != PXENV_STATUS_SUCCESS)
 		printf("pxe_fini: PXENV_UNLOAD_STACK failed: 0x%x\n",
 		    unload->Status);

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