[syslinux] [PXELINUX]A PXE booting question, please

[Eric Tang]

J.H. wrote:
>> Now I am wondering sending out this DHCP request is done by PXELINUX or 
>> the linux kernel, or something else. Can we just use the TCP/IP ability 
>> of the PXE to get the network access, which is done at the earliest 
>> stage like IP request and TFTP transfer.
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> During an install like that you will see 2 dhcp requests, one when the
> system boots and PXE does it's request to obtain a dhcp address and
> which server to talk to for tftp and such.  This sounds like it's worked
> fine for you.
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> The second request comes in when the os (Linux) does a request to obtain
> it's ip address and such, this is where you are failing.  I'm going to
> go out on a limb and guess that Redhat 7.3 does not support this card
> considering it's a relatively recent chipset and Redhat 7.3 is quite
> old.  You may need a driver disc or something similar to get it to even
> recognize the network card, or use a completely different network card
> with RH7.3.
>
> - John 'Warthog9' Hawley
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Hi John,

Thanks a lot for that. Actually I was trying to add the driver support 
for my network card. I made changes to initrd.img with the modified 
modules.dep, modules.cgz, module-info, pcitable. But it just not works.

Anyway, thanks again.

Regards,
ERic