[Etherboot-users] Problem with EXIT_IF_NO_OFFER (starting over and over)

[Mathieu M. <ju...@ma...>]

Hi,

I'm using etherboot on a floppy (version 5.4.1). I'm trying to set it so 
that it tries to boot from the network first, and boot locally from the 
hard drive in case it couldn't boot from network. According to the docs, 
BOOT_SECOND=BOOT_DISK won't work with a regular bios (would work with 
linuxbios only?). So I tried with the EXIT_IF_NO_OFFER flag set and 
MAX_BOOTP_RETRIES set to 1 (I added a printf in core/main.c to make sure 
the condition mas  met).. According to _my interpretation of_ the docs, 
after MAX_BOOTP_RETRIES tries, etherboot should exit and  the bios 
should skip to the next drive in it's configured boot order.. but it 
actually loads the etherboot code from floppy again, and again, and 
again. I tried with vmware and a real computer and got the same result.

Any idea?

Thanks

Mathieu Martin
IMNET