[syslinux] PXE booting

[Luis.F.Correia]

This is a new fsc board with the i845 chiset and the ADMtek network.

-----Original Message-----
From: Josef Siemes [mailto:jsiemes at web.de] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 11:18 AM
To: Luis.F.Correia; syslinux at zytor.com
Subject: Re: [syslinux] PXE booting


Hi,

"Luis.F.Correia" <Luis.F.Correia at seg-social.pt> schrieb am 06.01.03
12:00:46:
> I have been using pxelinux with memdisk to boot our workstations with 
> our custom floppy, which is a MSDOS boot disk (actually it is win98)
> 
> On one of the PC's I'm testing, a Fujitsu-Siemens which has an AMDtek 
> based on-board network card and when PXE is activated, it gets an IP 
> from the DHCP, then it finds the TFTP server, downloads pxelinux.0, 
> executes it which causes the floppy to be downloaded, the file is 
> transfered but it just stays there.
> 
> the PXE implementation is:
> 
> BootManage UNDI PXE-2.0 (build 083)
> BootManage PXE-2.0 PROM 1.0 AN983 3.00 SDK 3.0/083 (OEM73)
> (C) bootix gmbh , Licensed to FSC
> 
> Of course it boots with 2000 RIS....
> 
> Besides a broken bios implementation, is there something i can try?

I've a i810-based FSC box with the bootix rom, i8255x-chipset. 
There was no problem booting it with pxelinux & memdisk. 

BTW: I've seen boards being shipped with old bios versions, so maybe there's
an update available ...

Regards,

Josef


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