[ipxe-devel] [Realtek]: Possible bug - cannot load ipxe when intel-sata controller is set to RAID

[Jarrod Johnson]

Did they try to reproduce with the exact same flash procedure as you?  Do
you have any other adapters in the system that they may not have had?

The thing I think most likely is that you ran out of option rom space.  In
x86 BIOS, it is a very limited area, and quite possibly switching the intel
to raid bloated its footprint enough to leave insufficient space for your
.rom.

Have you tried make  bin/10ec8168.mrom or does that not work with the
device in question?  That would be my next step.  If there are more
non-boot adapters that have option roms, I'd try disabling their option rom
support in BIOS (at least IBM BIOS allows suppresion of slot option roms,
I'm guessing most everyone does_.


On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 7:47 AM, Joshua C. <joshuacov at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a strange problem with my bin/10ec8168.rom which I successfully
> flashed in my bios. The orom loads and works normally when the intel-sata
> controller is set to either AHCI/IDE/Disabled.When I set it to RAID-mode
> then the orom doesn't load.
>
> I reported this to the MB-verdor (msi motherboard) and they replied they
> cannot reproduced the problem. This was accompanied with a screenshot that
> clearly supports their answer.
>
> So I'm puzzled as to what can cause the problem? Any ideas if some bios
> calls/interrups (maybe resposible for loading the orom) can be hjacked by
> the intel-orom when set to RAID-mode? How can I try to debug this? What can
> it be?
>
> --
> --joshua
>
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