[ipxe-devel] Issues with some Network Cards

[Michael Brown]

On 28/07/14 14:09, sujan karanjeet wrote:
> It's not totally stuck but it is very very slow and does not work. I can
> reboot using the keyboard (warm boot) as well.
> It can get through the Waiting phase after few hours but the similar
> thing happens in the "Configuring" phase too.
> I've left the system for about 4 hours now and it's still in the
> "Configuring phase".
>
>     Waiting for link-up on net0.............. ok
>     Copnfiguring (net0 00:83:..:40) ... *HERE*
>
> I haven't seen any timeouts with an error message but it's waiting and
> waiting forever.

At that point, it should be printing one dot per second and will time 
out after around 15 seconds.  Does it respond to Ctrl-C?  If not, then 
it's a lockup.  (Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't really count as "responding to 
keyboard input"! :)

Michael