Re: 3c905c support needed for etherboot

[Jim McQuillan <jam@McQuil.com>]

Stephan,

The kernels that work with Etherboot/Netboot are tagged with 
additional information that is required for those boot loaders.

You probably need to create your own kernel and NOT tag it
with the mknbi-linux program.

Keep in mind that LTSP doesn't really care how you get the kernel
loaded.  It will work equally well with Netboot/Etherboot/PXE and
probably
any other network boot loader.

Thanks,
Jim McQuillan
jam@ltsp.org

Stephan Lauffer wrote:
> 
> Hi Steve,
> 
> thanx for your fast reply!
> 
> > Not sure what you need in terms of "etherboot project / tftp and so on",
> I´ve the problem, that the a linux kernel submitted over tftp will not
> boot. So i asked on the mailinglist of lstp - someone there gives me a hint,
> it could be a problem with the boot code of this card. It may not work with
> etherboot. I should try to flash the boot code of the card... now i´m
> reading several mails i found on a mail archiv to this mailinglist
> netboot@baghira.han.de...
> > Stephan. There is code (commercially) available from Bootix that support the
> > 3c905c, in addition to ours. However, our code on the MBA ROM should be
> > sufficient,  - we have successfully booted in to at least 5 differernt Linux
> > kernals, including SuSE, with what we ship on the MBA.
> Do you think i´ve to update the MBA from 4.00 to 4.11?
> Or what can it mean if there nothing happens after the kernel is submitted
> from the server to the client?
> I´ve sent you the output of the screen of the client before...
> [sorry for my english - it´s not the best. :-/ ]
> 
> Liebe Gruesse,
> Stephan Lauffer
> 
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