From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <948781140906051430x59ca6bbnded211ce55f6df42@mail.gmail.com> References: <948781140906051430x59ca6bbnded211ce55f6df42@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 18:18:35 -0400 Message-ID: From: Dan Cross To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Missing interrupts in 9pxeload? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 057f922e-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 5:30 PM, balaji 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.