Re: PXE error

[Gero Kuhlmann <gero@gkminix.han.de>]

Hello,

keithvb@www.dminfo.com (Keith von Borstel) wrote in 
3DADA66F.7090205@dminfo.com:">news:3DADA66F.7090205@dminfo.com:
> If you are using a floppy disk as boot ROM you should not get a PXE 
> error unless PXE boot is enabled.
> Either use PXE boot or disk/boot ROM, not both.

You are right if you think about commercially available boot roms. But
the netboot bootrom code, which is PXE-API compatible, can alternatively
be loaded from a floppy instead of an actual ROM device. And the error
message mentioned has been produced by a netboot bootrom code.

gero.

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