There is one design problem in using the 'etherboot' driver in
GRUB (although I really like etherboot !!!)
In the build process of rtherboot, the different parts of c files
and driver files are compile with options for the 'one' ethernet card,
not for all. Let's say in other words:
When
And this leads me to the bug report for etherboot:
Especially the NE*000 and the NE2000/PCI hangs in the first pio_write
function in the last 'while-loop', if there is no NE card. Further
my Rtl8029 (OvisLink NE2000 PCI) hangs in the NE2000/PCI probe on this
position (code was