[gPXE] AOE Netbooting XP with NVIDIA Nforce 630a Onboard Network Card

[Marc Hammer]

Hello Shao,

I was wondering about the 0x7E, too.
Just rechecked it again and it is definitly 7E.

The extra "layer" is the "NVIDIA Network Bus Enumerator",  it need to be
started before the normal NIC driver as described on the hardwareissues
wiki page.

I attached the Reg exports as you requested.

After importing the Reg exports the "NVIDIA Network Bus Enumerator"
don`t show up in the device manager (devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1).
"devcon findall" shows the Enumerator, if I remove the "Class" and
"ClassGUID" it shows up in the device manager and I can Install the driver.
After driver installation the values for "Class" and "ClassGUID" are
filled again and the Enumerator is displayed as nonpresent device like
it should.

- Marc Hammer

Shao Miller schrieb:
> On 8/24/2011 12:34, Marc Hammer wrote:
>> ...
>> Result:
>> - BSOD With Code 0x0000007E during the start of Windows
>>
>> With other Network Cards like Realtek RTL8168 the AOE boot works without
>> any problems using the port_winnt_sanboot method .
>
> Good day, Marc.
>
> 0x7E is a "System Thread Exception," if I recall correctly.  I would
> have expected a 0x7B for the more typical case where the boot volume
> is not found.
>
> Would you be kind enough to share your .REG Registry exports?  My
> initial suspicion is that your particular network interface driver(s)
> involve an extra "layer" in the device node tree, which might need
> extra attention.
>
> - Shao Miller
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