Re: [Etherboot-users] pxe boot ?
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Re: [Etherboot-users] pxe boot ?
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From: Roy W. <roy...@ya...> - 2005-09-24 15:19:58
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Hi, This is a little more tricky than I was hoping !! First of all PXE or Etherboot, I don't get the difference. Ok, Etherboot maybe offers more options and piggy-backs off the PXE standard, if that's all then that makes sense ? Second, Rom-o-matic offers the below eepro100 options. I'm stumped, 20 or so options, but which matches my card !?!? does anyone know how to find this out ?? I took the first in the list, and got a zpxe as said on an EtherBoot site. ok, great it seemed to work, EtherBoot came up from PXE boot after DHCP picked up an IP, so it correctly took the Etherboot image and ran it, so I get the option boot from NIC or Quit. ok, great, I want to boot NIC, but there is no option either here or in the extended options on rom-o-matic to give a network image file. ie. in a really simple case, say I have a DOS boot image .ima file and I want EtherBoot to grab that and boot it. I mean this sounds incredibly simple, but it's not obvious, how can I tell EtherBoot where to go for it's second stage image ??? I've been reading the docs and finding nothing on this. it seems that this could be a lot simpler. ie. - PXE sees the DHCP and gets IP and boot zpxe file - zpxe file runs and then goes and fetches the second stage loader (linux or dos or whatever) - second stage loader runs and you get a dos prompt or linux login. it's so much harder than this though ! please help, I feel that I'm 66% of the way there, but getting DOS to boot has really stumped me here. Thanks and best regards, Roy. [0x8086,0x1075]</option><option>eepro100:82551qm -- [0x8086,0x1059]</option><option>eepro100:82556 -- [0x8086,0x1228]</option><option>eepro100:82559er -- [0x8086,0x1209]</option><option>eepro100:82562-1 -- [0x8086,0x2459]</option><option>eepro100:82562-2 -- [0x8086,0x245d]</option><option>eepro100:82562em -- [0x8086,0x2449]</option><option>eepro100:82562et -- [0x8086,0x1039]</option><option>eepro100:82562etb -- [0x8086,0x103b]</option><option>eepro100:82562ez -- [0x8086,0x1050]</option><option>eepro100:82801cam -- [0x8086,0x1031]</option><option>eepro100:82865 -- [0x8086,0x1227]</option><option>eepro100:eepro100 -- [0x8086,0x1229]</option><option>eepro100:eepro100-1032 -- [0x8086,0x1032]</option><option>eepro100:eepro100-1033 -- [0x8086,0x1033]</option><option>eepro100:eepro100-1034 -- [0x8086,0x1034]</option><option>eepro100:eepro100-1035 -- [0x8086,0x1035]</option><option>eepro100:eepro100-1036 -- [0x8086,0x1036]</option><option>eepro100:eepro100-1037 -- [0x8086,0x1037]</option><option>eepro100:eepro100-103c -- [0x8086,0x103c]</option><option>eepro100:eepro100-103d -- [0x8086,0x103d]</option><option>eepro100:eepro100-103e -- [0x8086,0x103e]</option><option>eepro100:eepro100-1051 -- [0x8086,0x1051]</option><option>eepro100:eepro100-5200 -- [0x8086,0x5200]</option><option>eepro100:eepro100-5201 -- [0x8086,0x5201]</option><option>eepro100:id1029 -- [0x8086,0x1029]</option><option>eepro100:id1030 -- [0x8086,0x1030]</option><option>eepro100:id1038 -- [0x8086,0x1038]</option><option>eepro100:id103a -- [0x8086,0x103a]</option><option>eepro100:prove -- [0x8086,0x1051]</option><option>eepro:eepro</option><option>epic100:epic100 -- --- Per Dalgas Jakobsen <pd...@kn...> wrote: > Hi Roy, > > If I understood you correctly, you have a harddrive > on your systems. > You might want to get a ROM-O-MATIC etherboot image > with harddrive > support (loading etherboot from the harddrive). > > http://rom-o-matic.net/5.4.1/ > > And copy the image directly on one of the primary > partitions (must be > made active of course). > > ~Knaldgas > > > Roy Wiseman wrote: > > Hi, i'm new to this list after hunting the > internet > > for months and trying to get something working > with > > BootP / PXE that is very frustrating. I'm hoping > > someone can help me here ? > > > > I have a Fujitsu Stylistic LT tablet PC. these are > old > > tablet's, not new WinXP tablet edition stuff, just > a > > Pentium 233, with 64 MB of RAM and a 4 GB drive, > but > > they are great little units. I have no operating > > system on one, and no floppy drive (none built > in), > > and cannot buy a floppy disc as these are > unsupported, > > but they *DO* have PXE boot as an option in the > BIOS. > > > > So, I have turned on PXE boot, and a DHCP TFTP > server > > on my main system using tftpd32 which works > perfectly. > > My Fujitsu is correctly picking up an IP address > which > > is great. However, on trying to send a package > over, I > > got constant errors saying "to many packages", > with an > > error code that I looked up on google that > indicated > > that PXE will not accept boot images larger than > 512KB > > ! this is an old machine with no possibility of > > getting the PXE upgraded to allow larger images. > So i > > took a 500KB file and pointed that at the machine, > and > > indeed the error was no longer there. So, now it > seems > > that I need either a DOS or Linux boot disc that > can > > boot the system over PXE, but it must be less than > > 512KB in size ! this is the really tough bit, as I > > cannot make a DOS boot disk image smaller than > ~650KB > > and I'm a bit clueless about making Linux boot > discs > > ... > > > > Please help, as this would help in so many ways, > > having a simple system to boot any system on my > > network to a command prompt without a floppy or cd > > boot can be used for so many useful tasks. I've > > actually been trying to get this stuff working on > and > > off for about 2 years now, and I've never got > anywhere > > with it. PXE seems to be a real "black art" and > useful > > information on the internet on this has been very > > difficult to find ... so I'm very much hoping that > > someone on this list can help me with this. > > > > Thanks / Best Regards, > > > > Roy. > > > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > > > How much free photo storage do you get? Store your > holiday > > snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos > http://uk.photos.yahoo.com > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > SF.Net email is sponsored by: > > Tame your development challenges with Apache's > Geronimo App Server. Download > > it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma > tv or your very own > > Sony(tm)PSP. 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