[Soekris] net4801 loads slowly pxelinux.0

[William Estrada]

Fabio,

  I have seem this on my 4801 before.  I wish I could remember what I did to fix it.
I know the fix was on the TFTP server side.  Not much help!

-- 
  Thanks for your time.

William Estrada

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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 12:47:51 +0100
> From: Fabio Vayr <fabio.vayr at securegroup.it>
> Subject: [Soekris] net4801 loads slowly pxelinux.0
> To: soekris-tech at lists.soekris.com
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> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to boot net4801 from the net.
> 
> When pxelinux.0 is uploaded to the net4801 it takes a long time before it loads on net4801 and before starting looking for the config file on the TFTP server.
> 
> Through the serial console I see the output of the bootloader changing very slowly every single char where you see "#" in the snapshot below:
> 
> 
> "#" slowly changes giving the output of PXE boot loader
> 
> 
> co#BIOS ver. 1.28  20050529  Copyright (C) 2000-2005 Soekris Engineering.
> 
> 0256 Mbyte Memory                        CPU Geode 266 Mhz 
> 
> 
> Slot   Vend Dev  ClassRev Cmd  Stat CL LT HT  Base1    Base2   Int 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> 0:00:0 1078 0001 06000000 0107 0280 00 00 00 00000000 00000000 
> 0:06:0 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000E101 A0000000 10
> 0:07:0 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000E201 A0001000 10
> 0:08:0 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000E301 A0002000 10
> 0:18:2 100B 0502 01018001 0005 0280 00 00 00 00000000 00000000 
> 0:19:0 0E11 A0F8 0C031008 0117 0280 08 38 00 A0003000 00000000 11
> 
>  1 Seconds to automatic boot.   Press Ctrl-P for entering Monitor.
> 
> NSC DP83815/DP83816 Fast Ethernet UNDI, v1.03                                  
> Copyright (C) 2002, 2003 National Semiconductor Corporation
> All rights reserved.
> 
> Pre-boot eXecution Environment  PXE-2.0 (build 082)
> Copyright (C) 1997-2000  Intel Corporation
> 
> 
> CLIENT MAC ADDR: 00 00 24 C7 54 B4  
> CLIENT IP: 10.0.0.250  MASK: 255.255.255.0  DHCP IP: 10.0.0.99                 
> GATEWAY IP: 10.0.0.99
> 
> 
> How can I speed up this procedure? 
> This is not a Network problem but seems to be a console latency.
> What's wrong ? I have tried several pxelinux.0 but all have the same issue.
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Fabio Vayr
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