Re: [Etherboot-discuss] Booting a machine with multiple NICs

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

On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Bowden Richard E wrote:
> 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.

This doesn't sound like the expected behaviour; if the DHCP response on 
the first card is satisfactory then it should proceed to boot via that 
card.  Can you post a transcript of the session?

Are you using Etherboot 5.4 or gPXE?

Michael