Re: [Etherboot-discuss] booting etherboot direct from NT boot.ini

[Michael B. <mb...@fe...>]

On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, James Harper wrote:
> > > Failing that, can anyone suggest why a Compaq USDT D500 won't even 
> > > load eepro100.zpxe via tftp??? I suspect it's just a crappy version 
> > > of the intel boot rom, but a workaround would be nice.
> > What goes wrong?
> First it tries to get eepro100.pxe, which syslog says is okay but no 
> data appears to be transfered, and then it tries to load a file who's 
> filename is a single character of 0x1c (ctrl-5 I think). I ended up 
> creating a symlink of that character to eepro100.pxe and now it's 
> working, but it is a bit of a kludge.

Weird.  Could you capture the DHCP/TFTP exchange with tcpdump -w and post 
it somewhere?

Michael