Re: -DEMERGENCYDISKBOOT does not work

[Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@comm.uni-bremen.de>]

Ken Yap wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >for some reason, -DEMERGENCYDISKBOOT does not work in my setup.
> >I use etherboot 4.2.13.
> >When i unplug the network cable, etherboot eventually displays
> >"Transmission timeout" but does not boot from disk.
> >I think the purpose of -DEMERGENCYDISKBOOT is to have the pc bootable if
> >the network is down or am i wrong?
> 
> It will work but only retries have been exhausted. Since the retry
> intervals are exponentially increasing as recommended by RFC ?, it will
> take a long time to give up. Try making MAX_BOOTP_RETRIES less. I should
> probably mention this in the doc. I think the EMERGENCYDISKBOOT code
> was put in first, then the exponentially increasing retry intervals and
> nobody made the connection.

Ok, setting MAX_BOOTP_RETRIES to 3 did the job. 
Still it would be 'nice to have' the possibility of aborting etherboot
with ESC.

Thank you

Heinrich Rebehn
                        "Have disk - will travel"
University of Bremen
Physics / Electrical and Electronics Engineering
- Department of Telecommunications -

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