unreliably booting off a BCM5701.

[Stefan Reinauer]

Hi,

1.1.6 seems really picky when using etherboot for network booting.
The link seems very often to go up and down at will, before a real 
boot happens. See attached log. 

Any idea?

  Regards,
    Stefan

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LinuxBIOS-1.1.6.0-Fallback Mo Mär 22 17:42:39 CET 2004 starting...
setting up resource map....done.
ht reset -

LinuxBIOS-1.1.6.0-Fallback Mo Mär 22 17:42:39 CET 2004 starting...
setting up resource map....done.
Initializing memory:  done
Clearing LinuxBIOS memory:  done
Testing DRAM : 00000000-00100000
DRAM fill: 00000000-00100000
00100000
DRAM filled
DRAM verify: 00000000-00100000
00100000
DRAM verified
Done.
Copying LinuxBIOS to ram.
Jumping to LinuxBIOS.
Jumping to LinuxBIOS.
ROM segment 0xb7fa length 0xff3e reloc 0x00020000
CPU 1650 Mhz
Etherboot 5.3.6 (GPL) http://etherboot.org Tagged ELF for [TG3][IDE]
Relocating _text from: [000264e0,00058510) to [1fecdfd0,1ff00000)
Boot from (N)etwork or (Q)uit? ^TProbing pci nic...
[tg3-5701]Ethernet addr: 00:04:76:E0:11:99
Tigon3 [partno(3C996B-T) rev 0105 PHY(5701)] (PCI:33MHz:32-bit)
Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex. TX RX flow control
Searching for server (DHCP)...
.Link is down.
Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex. TX RX flow control
Link is down.
Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex. TX RX flow control
Link is down.
Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex. TX RX flow control
.Link is down.

[..]

Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex. TX RX flow control
..Me: 192.168.0.2, Server: 192.168.0.1
Loading 192.168.0.1:kernel.elf ...(ELF)... ...........  [..] ......done
Firmware type: LinuxBIOS




-- 
  Stefan Reinauer, SUSE LINUX AG
Head of Architecture Development