Re: netbooting pxegrub

[Thierry Laronde]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 02:37:09PM +0300, Thomas Schweikle wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi!

Hello,
> 
> 
> 
> An:     Thomas Schweikle <address@hidden>
> Kopie:  address@hidden
> Thema:  Re: netbooting pxegrub
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> > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 09:38:22PM +0300, Thomas Schweikle wrote:
> >> I've set up a booting environment for grub:
> >>
> >> in '/tftpboot/grub/' grub is installed.
> >> Netbooting with an intel etherexpress pro 100 works, but I am not
> >> presented with the configured menu. The option is handled to grub, but
> >> seems to fail. Trying to give a configfile in grubs shell:
> >>
> >> configfile (nb)/cl01/grub.cfg
> >             ^^^^
> > Network Device -> nd
> 
> This was a typo in my mail...
> 
> But I could resolve the problem:
> 
> the machine in question has three NIC's:
> 1x 3c905C
> 2x EtherExpress Pro

The problem with the effective code is that this is the first valid entry
for a detected card that is taken for booting and initialized. One has to
rearrange the order of the entries to solve the problem.
> 
> the only card capable of netbooting is the 3c905C. This card will
> initialize and load pxegrub. Grub starts up and searches network cards.
> Now it is getting complicated:
> - the 3c905C isn't found.

I have taken that from the README.netboot :

        The 3c90X series ethernet cards are a group of high-performance 
        busmaster DMA cards from 3Com.  This particular driver supports 
        both the 3c90x and the 3c90xB revision cards.  3C90xC family support 
        has been tested to some degree but not extensively.

So the card is more or less supported. Please search the archives of the
mailing list, I do not remember precisely but there have been some threads
about the network drivers.
        
Cheers, 
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Thierry LARONDE, Centre de Ressources Informatiques, Archamps - France
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