Re: [Etherboot-users] Problems booting

[Yishai P. <yi...@ca...>]

You might want to try using prepared floppy bootable eb images from=20
www.rom-o-matic.org.

Yishai

On Tuesday 24 June 2003 06:21, geo...@gr... wrote:
> I've built several diskless workstations, but I
> always just bought a NIC with a boot rom already plugged in.
> I thought I'd try doing it myself.
>
> =09I downloaded etherboot-5.0.10, unpacked it, went into
> src and did a make.  Then I make bin/boot1a.bin.  Then I do
> this as instructed:
>
> =09cat bin/boot1a.bin bin32/centaur-p.lzrom >/dev/fd0
>
> to make a test floppy.  Upon booting the floppy, all I get is
> this:
>
> =09.0000Boot err
>
> =09This looks like a failure in boot1a.s, but I am not
> expert enough to know what it means.  I've already tried the
> .rom file instead of the .lzrom file, and I've tried fd0H1440
> as well -- no change.
>
> =09Any suggestions?
>
> =09The machine is a celeron in a reliable old Intel
> 440FX motherboard.  It boots linux cleanly off a floppy with
> no problem.
>
> =09Thanks,
>
> =09=09--George
>
>
>
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