[Etherboot-discuss] Booting a machine with multiple NICs

[Bowden R. E <REB...@qi...>]

Hi,

 

I am trying to use Etherboot (from a floppy) to boot a number of machines in order to use DRBL and Clonezilla to distribute disk images.  Each client machine has 6 NICS but only one is on a LAN with the DHCP and DRBL servers.  When I boot a client up it receives an address from the DHCP server for the first NIC fine but then gets stuck trying to get DHCP addresses for the remaining NICs.  Is there any way around this?  I notice that when I press escape it moves onto the next card, however when it is done it returns to the start of the boot process asking to network boot or quit.  There is unfortunately no reasonable way of giving the remaining NICs access to a DHCP server.  I feel I am missing something.

 

Thanks,

 

Richard

 


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