Re: netbooting pxegrub

[Thomas Schweikle]

Hello!



An:     Thomas Schweikle <address@hidden>
Kopie:  address@hidden
Thema:  Re: netbooting pxegrub


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

I have searched the list but didn't find anything I could work with. This
error remains:

grub> dhcp
Probing...[3C90X] failed
Error 13: Invalid device requested
if I boot from a Grub floppy.

If I try booting of from the net:

DHCP MAC ADDR: 00 50 DA DF DE EA
CLIENT IP: 192.168.13.22 MASK: 255.255.255.0 DHCP IP: 192.168.13.15
Probing...[3C90X]BOOTP/DHCP fails.

Any ideas? With these on board EtherExpress Pro adapters booting from
floppy works:
Found Intel EtherExpressPro100 at 0xecc0, ROM address 0x0
Probing...[Intel EtherExpressPro100]Ethernetaddr: 0:b0:d0:e1:76:4f
eeprom[6] = 4701

Address: 192.168.13.23  Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Server: 192.168.13.15  Gateway: 0.0.0.0

A bit clueless...

--
Thomas