Re: [SLE] Gigabit ethernet on Intel D945GNTLKR mobo
From: Sid Boyce (sboyce_at_blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: 08/12/05
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Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 19:47:59 +0100 To: florin@hum.math.cmu.edu
florin@hum.math.cmu.edu wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Sid Boyce wrote:
>
>
>>>This driver is not mentioned directly on Intel's pages about the
>>>D945GNT motherboard (they're afraid of Microsoft to say it loud,
>>>I suppose), but google will eventually dig it out.
>>>
>>
>>In my reply I mentioned I'd seen reference to it on the kernel mailing
>>list last week, a post from someone at Intel.
>
>
> Sid, I'm sorry I missed your reply. As far as I can tell, it didn't show
> up on this list. Can you please resend it, or at least send me a copy of
> it? Thank you.
>
I just noticed my reply (sent to you separately) was for the AMD64 list,
someone else having e1000 problems, so when I saw your post I wondered
if you had missed mine somehow, just a case of crossed x86/x86_64 wires.
This the first I've seen a hardware topic collision on separate lists.
>
>>>1. It won't boot from a harddrive unless one of the partitions is marked
>>>as bootable (Windows style) in the partition table. The BIOS (tested the
>>>newest one - 1788) is quirky alltogether and many of the features are
>>>twisted or don't work as described in the documentation.
>>>Why in the world would somebody make the BIOS read the partition table?
>>>
>>
>>I always thought a partition had to be made bootable in order to be able
>>to boot from it. I've always done that since the days when we used Minix
>> bootlace and shoelace to boot Linux. You'd also note that on any Linux
>>install of any flavour, partitioning the drive takes care of that.
>
>
> My point here is that its not the job of the BIOS to read the partition
> table and decide if a partition is bootable or not. This is the job of the
> boot loader. There are so many useful things that only the BIOS can do
> and it doesn't, so why waste EPROM space for stuff like that and impose
> some stupid un-necesarry (and un-documented) rules.
>
> Thank you,
> Florin
>
>
>
True. I'll be glad when we can ditch the manufacturer's BIOS entirely,
it doesn't do much for Linux and it's a pain. I needed to update the
BIOS on my x86_64 laptop, no floppy, tried freebios which only supports
a limited set of chipsets, win98-boot.img, freedos, wine and cxoffice
which all failed to do the job, so I got out a 10G spare drive, bunged
it in, restored XP (took forever and a good thing I didn't throw the
CD's in with the weekly rubbish collection), flashed the BIOS, original
HD in and back with Linux.
Regards
Sid.
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