Re: Shuttle SB75G2 - No PXE boot?...

Michael Perry wrote:

Hi Tim-

I've worked with a variety of broadcom chipsets and found a bit of
variety in how we got PXE booting to work in the past. One issue we did
find was that often the boot sequence was set to a timeout too low and
that the broadcom network cards would simply not be given enough time to
get the information from the server. You may want to check what timeout
value you set in the server. I've seen broadcom chipsets be agonizingly
slow and we reset the timeout value in the server in the hopes of
coaxing the broadcom chipset to boot. Another thing we noted on a few
different servers was that the broadcom network card had firmware
updates available which materially affected at a positive level the
ability of the chip to PXE boot. Particularly broadcom chips on the
sunfire servers we used had timeout issues which were positively
affected by downloading and applying new firmware patches from Sun.

After applying the firmware upgrades, we got reliable PXE booting. Its
worthwhile to mention though that there is an amazing variety of these
chips out there and we did not find a 100% fix for each one of them.


Thanks Michael,

I'll try a BIOS flash - there is an update for mine.

Cheers

Tim
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