Re: Can 164SX with AlphaBIOS boot from network?

[Jay Estabrook <Jay Estabrook compaq com>]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 02:04:40PM -0700, Donald White wrote:
> 
> Just for fun, I added a 21140 chip based NIC to my Alpha 164SX with
> AlphaBIOS 5.7.  The BIOS recognized it OK and so I enabled it.  Then I
> configured a bootp server.  The AlphaBIOS gets its IP address OK.  Next
> I configured a TFTP server and had the bootp server pass out a boot file
> name.  A trace with ethereal shows that the 164SX receives the boot file
> name, but never tries to contact the TFTP server.  After the bootp
> exchange there is only a single arp request to check for a duplicate IP
> address.  Is this right or do I have something messed up.

What exactly are you trying to boot from the server? MILO?

--Jay++

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