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

[James H. <jam...@be...>]

> 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.
>=20
> Weird.  Could you capture the DHCP/TFTP exchange with tcpdump -w and
post
> it somewhere?
>=20

I think I already have it somewhere... I'll check when I get home.

James