Re: DOS-Boot problem with RTL8139

[Ken Yap <ken@nlc.net.au>]

>when I try to boot DOS 6.22 diskless (eprom code starts from floppy at
>the moment), everything works fine with 3coms 3c509, but the machine
>crashes 
>with a RTL8139 card from "level one" when DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS
>/TESTMEM:OFF gets executed from config.sys. If I comment out the
>himem.sys line in config.sys, I get a DOS-prompt, but typing a simple
>command like DIR or ECHO causes all sorts of strange behaviour - mostly
>the prompt never reappears.
>Any idea?   (I used etherboot 4.2.7 and mknbi-dos from netboot 0.8.1)

This may be the RTL8139 driver too large problem again (sigh). Try
building the ROM image with the minimum options.
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