Re: netbooting pxegrub

[Thierry Laronde]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:53:55PM +0300, Thomas Schweikle wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello!

Hello,

> > 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? 

It seems that the support for the C serie is not achieved. Please look to
the source in etherboot (where the drivers come from), in order to see if
there has been some new versions about it.

Cheers,
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Thierry LARONDE, Centre de Ressources Informatiques, Archamps - France
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