Hello!
Thanks for your fast response.
I found out, what the problem was.
Why it didn't work:
The client I'm trying to set up (un)fortunately already came with a
BootEPROM, that was supposed to do what I need (MBA - the Managed PC Boot
Agent from 3Com). So sending the Bootp-broadcast and receiving the
imagefile worked just fine, but when it came to loading the image into
memory, the client hang -- because there seems to be no standard for boot
images, and so the MBA expects something else from a boot image than
netboot does (especially how to load them into memory).
How it works:
When I used the drivers from 3Com ("3c90xpd.com") with the right switches
to build a BootEPROM with netboot, everything worked just fine.
What Problem is left:
I had to "emulate" netbooting by using a disk. Now I want to put the
EPROM-imagefile netboot created onto an EPROM. Fortunately that
Bootloader (MBA) from 3Com is stored on a Flash-EPROM (64 KB!!). Now I'm
looking for a program (usually M$-DOS) that is capable of reprogramming
the Flash-EPROM (for Intel-cards such a program exists, for 3Com-cards I
didn't find such a program so far).
Jens
P.S. I guess I could get MBA to work as well - but then I couldn't use
netboot, which I prefer.
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