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bug #15611: pxegrub (patched), NVIDIA nForce4 SLI Gigabit ethernet controller

Submitted by:  Tom Carpenter <tomc>
Submitted on:  Thu 02 Feb 2006 09:18:12 PM UTC  
 
Category: NetworkSeverity: Major
Priority: 5 - NormalItem Group: Feature Request
Status: NonePrivacy: Public
Assigned to: NoneOriginator Name: Tom Carpenter
Open/Closed: ClosedRelease: 0.97
Release: NoneReproducibility: Every Time
Planned Release: None

Sat 15 Dec 2007 11:55:17 AM UTC, comment #1:

We've moved to GRUB 2 as a development platform. Unfortunately, GRUB 2 doesn't have network support yet, although there's ongoing work to implement it. If you want to help on that, please contact <grub-devel@gnu.org>.

In the meantime, this bug doesn't apply. I'm closing it.

Robert Millan <robertmh>
Project Administrator
Thu 02 Feb 2006 09:18:12 PM UTC, original submission:

I tried compiling grub 0.97, patched as mentioned here:

http://documents.jg555.com/netboot/x86-pxe-config.html

to try to provide (forcedeth) support for the gigabit controller on an Asus A8N-SLI motherboard. PXE on the motherboard downloads and runs pxegrub, but grub can't locate the ethernet controller, "Probing pci nic...failed". I also tried compiling the patched grub with "--enable-pci-direct" - same results. After looking at NVIDIA's documentation for this ethernet controller

http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_8451.html

(linked to from here: http://www.nvidia.com/page/pg_20041015215635.html)

I'm thinking that its not necessarily a problem with the driver for the ethernet controller but rather grub's inability to probe the bus its on; seems rather obvious given grub's "Probing pci nic...failed" message. Has anyone found a solution to enable non-PCI ethernet controllers in pxegrub? I realize this list is for Legacy Grub issues, but does anyone know if GRUB 2 will address this kind of problem? Does my uninformed theory about why grub can't find the ethernet controller have any merit?

-Tom Carpenter
UMASS - Amherst Dept of Biology

Tom Carpenter <tomc>

 

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