On Thursday 28 April 2005 06:48 pm, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Iau, 2005-04-28 at 17:16, Rick Warner wrote:
> >  On these systems, we are getting ext2 errors from the initrd during the
> > untarring.  Soon after, we start getting seg faults on random things
> > (looks like stuff caused by the still running dhcp client), and then a
> > continuous stream of segfaults on the restore script itself (restore[1]).
>
> This sounds almost like the pxe/boot code is still using ram that the
> kernel has now used (eg the PXE layer or pxe booter forgot to close the
> client and
> its still DMAing happily into the kernel)
This morning, we tried updating to a newer pxelinux (3.07) and had the same 
results.  We then tried using etherboot with a mknbi tagged image and also 
had the same results.   Since we are getting the same problem on 3 different 
motherboards with 2 different network adapters, I have not looked into 
updating the boot rom on the nics.  Should I?

What should I look into next?  I have attached a serial console log of the 
system and errors.  The slashes and pipes you see are from a spinning bar 
thing.  If you want output that is cleaned up without that, I can provide it.

-- 
Richard Warner
Lead Systems Integrator
Microway, Inc
(508)732-5517