On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 11:20:40AM -0400, Dewey Hylton wrote: > > > > THANKS for your time and assistance. > > > > i now have enough networking to commence an installation, which is in > > progress. i'll have to build > > and copy in a new kernel of course to use the booted system afterward. > > assuming nothing is shown > > broken in the dmesg below, what do i need to do in order to get this > > change (or another fix which > > would not require this change, if this was just an improper hack) > > committed? > > > > > HOLD THE PRESSES! > > after the installation and reboot, just prior to copying the rebuild kernel > that was to provide networking, > i notice that networking is in fact working. so somehow, with regard to > this specific network interface, > there was a disparity between bsd.rd and bsd (GENERIC) kernels. i'll try to > run this through its paces > with vlans and other such things, but at the moment it looks like GENERIC > from 5.8 actually works as > it should without any changes. perhaps it's time to dust off the old usb > installer sticks and forgo pxe for > these little devices. at least for the time being ... > > is it safe to assume that the disparity between bsd.rd and bsd is due to > trimming to keep the image at > a minimum? i know other things are removed from bsd.rd for this purpose ... > and if not, does this point > to a bug for which i need to make a report?
It isn't clear if it is that or the state the PXE option rom puts the chip into. I would be interested to hear if you still see the problem booting bsd.rd off of a disk.
