Re: Problems with 386

[Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU>]

Ray Maharaj writes:
> 
> are you using a high speed UART on the com port? Some older machines come
> with a com port card that does not support buffering.
> 
> On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Richard Gooch wrote:
> >   Hi, all. I've been using a bootrom made with netboot 0.7.2 for a
> > while now, and it works fine. Yesterday I put the card with bootrom
> > into a 386 machine and part way through the tftp download, I start
> > getting timeouts.
> > The download stops at around block 3350 and I get the following
> > message:
> > TFTP: Timeout
> > 
> > I get this message a few times and then it gives up. Plugging the card
> > into a 486 machine shows no problems. I've tried it on an AMD 386DX40
> > and an Intel 386DX33 and in both cases it fails the same way.
> > The boot image being downloaded is 1859584 bytes long.

I don't see what this has to with a COM port. TFTP is happening over
the EtherNet. My console is plain VGA.

				Regards,

					Richard....
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