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Re: Problem: booting via DFE500TX



Hello,

Benedikt Eric Heinen <beh@icemark.ch> wrote:
>   I tried to run the network boot image for a D-Link DFE500TX adaptor. I
> put the boot image on a floppy disk, and booted with that. Unfortunately,
> I didn't get very far; the boot process terminates with an
> 
> 	ERROR: init_bootp
> 
> The card was identified correctly (hw address, media and IRQ were found
> correctly).

This error appears, if your packet driver doesn't leave enough memory
for the bootrom buffers. You probably used this with a version of netboot
prior to 0.8. Please try it again with the current version 0.8, as this
problem should have been fixed there.

gero.

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