At 07/07/2017 at 22:00, Shakespearean monkeys danced on Jerry Geis's keyboard and said:

Any thoughts on why the e1000e would not talk to the switch ? The switch is an unmanaged linksys - could not get the model. It auto negotiates to 1G/full.

+1 on the switch not being completely up itself.

You could also stick in a (longer) pause at the boot screen.

Cheers!