Re: [Etherboot-users] Trouble Booting Kernel Image with Etherboot 4.6.7

[Marcin K. <mar...@gm...>]

Hi.

I have a similar problem I think.
I have old Siemens Scovey Thin Client with Intel 100Mbit lancard onboard an=
d:

# lppci -n show:
Intel [0x8086, 0x1229]

1. When I use etherboot eepro100 [0x8086, 0x1229] from floppy all goes
pretty good. I can download and start pxelinux.0.
2. When I try boot over a network using my etherboot from my lancard I can'=
t.
I can download almost everything but I can't start it.
I tried to download another etherboot but without success.
Etherboot in my thinclient is onboard with lancard.
This etherboot don't call DHCP with "Etherboot" or "PXEClient".
It send nothing.
In case of large files I can download max 241Kbytes and it make freeze.

Any suggestion?

Regards

Marcin Kuk

On 10/19/05, John Lee <le...@oa...> wrote:
> Timothy Legge wrote:
>
> >> This is my first attempt at booting over a network. I am
> >> trying to load an image across the network and I am receiving
> >> the following message (using Etherboot v4.6.7):
> >>
> >> "error: not a tagged file
> >> unable to load file"
> >>
> >> over and over and over and over and over and over and over .
> >> . . and over again.
> >>
> >> I've run "mkelf-linux --rootdir=3D/tftpboot vmlinuz initrd.img
> >>
> >>> linux.nb"
> >>
> >> on my image and am still receiving the message. I created an
> >> Etherboot
> >> v5.4.1 boot disk and am able to load the image via PXE, so
> >> I'm sure the vmlinuz and initrd.img files are correct.
> >> Updating the onboard ROM isn't an option at this point; I'm
> >> stuck with v4.6.7.
> >
> > No you are not. Simply use 4.6.7 to download a 5.4.1 version of
> > etherboot first. If you have a 5.4.1 version of the rom file (zrom)
> > then I believe it is simply mknbi-rom whateverrom.zrom >
> > whateverrom.zrom.nbi.
> >
> > Then update your dhcpd.conf file to send whateverrom.zrom.nbi if the
> > vendor string is etherboot 4 and the kernel if it is etherboot 5.x
> >
> > Tim
>
> Thank you Tim.  Your solution did indeed work.
>
> Additional info:
> Etherboot v4.6.7 does not report a vendor-class-identifier so I was able
> to do the following:
>
> if substring (option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 9) =3D "Etherboot" {
>     filename "my_image";
> } else {
>     filename "eb-5.4.1.nb";
> }
>
> to first load the new Etherboot version than the image I wanted.
>
> John
>
>
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