[K12OSN] problems during bootup
Huck
dhuckaby at paasda.org
Thu Jul 22 18:14:13 UTC 2004
use the onboard nic instead if it's a 3c905 driver...it should be
supported with PXE boot...
have you tested that ?
--Huck
Dale Harkness wrote:
> Hopefully someone out there can help me.
> We are running into an issue with client machines that have onboard
> NIC cards. the bios they have does not allow to disable the onboard
> NIC card, so we simply unplug them. we installed some Intel Pro 100
> bootable network cards (PCI based) into the machines....they begin to
> boot.....get to a point and error out saying that "no dhcpd-eth0.info
> file" is available for the client. all the machines are the same
> model (Toshiba Equium 7100S) with the same PXE network card in them.
> i know it is not my LTSP server because we hooked a COmpaq Deskpro
> with the same model NIC to it and it worked fine. I have a feeling it
> is the onboard NIC that is causing a problem, even though it is
> unplugged. i can also see during the startup that it is trying to
> install the wrong NIC driver for the Intel, it is actually installing
> for the 3Com onboard card (3c905 driver) Help me if anyone
> can.....thanks in advance.
>
> dale
>
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