Hello All, I seem to be having a problem with PXE under the 3com MBA once the pxe loads the standard redhat 7.2 lilo prompt and I type my label which is a4-72 and hit enter, I get: Loading vmlinuz... and it stops most of the time. Sometimes it loads and once it gets to the part of installing linux the screen turns red and I get "interrupt handler not syncing" Thanks -- Otis DeWitt - ODeWitt at SUPERB.NET Systems Administrator, Superb Internet Corp. NOC Web hosting and more "Ahead of the Rest": http://www.superb.net For support information, please see: http://support.superb.net
This MotherBoard (Asus CUSL2-M) has the: 3Com 3C905C NIC ASIC ( 3Com 3C920 100/10Mbps LAN Controller) according to the manual. Thanks --On Monday, February 25, 2002 03:22:28 PM -0800 "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:> Otis DeWitt wrote: > >> 3com card: 3c905 >> >> Sometimes it gets through the vmlinuz problem, like every 30 reboots >> and when it starts to install thats when the red screen appears with >> that eror message. >> > > > Please list the *exact* 3Com card. There are many 3c905 variants. > > -hpa >-- Otis DeWitt - ODeWitt at SUPERB.NET Systems Administrator, Superb Internet Corp. NOC Web hosting and more "Ahead of the Rest": http://www.superb.net For support information, please see: http://support.superb.net
Otis DeWitt wrote:> Hello All, > > I seem to be having a problem with PXE under the 3com MBA > once the pxe loads the standard redhat 7.2 lilo prompt and > I type my label which is a4-72 and hit enter, I get: > > Loading vmlinuz... > > and it stops most of the time. Sometimes it loads and once it gets to > the part of installing linux the screen turns red and I > get "interrupt handler not syncing" >Urk. Sounds like the PXE stack leaves the card in a funny state that the Linux driver can't deal with. There also seems to be some issues with the PXE stack or card itself. When it "stops", does it eventually reset, or does it just hang indefinitely? -hpa