On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 12:53:35AM +0100, Sascha Vogt enlightened us: > Could somebody please enlighten me? > > When I am booting over PXE, I hold down the shift-key, type "unattended > acpi=off apic=off pci=nomsi". > > Then it boots bzImage, appends initrd, fills my screen several times and > finaly drops to bash, because it cant initialize my network card. > > So far so bad. To fix this, I'd like to know where am I at this point. > Is it SYSLINUX, is it unattended, is it a by unattended modified version > of syslinux? uname just says it's "Linux....." > > Background is, I want to setup XP on a bunch of machines with Intel > DG33BU Motherboard with Intel 82566DC-2 (E1000) Gigabit NICs onboard. > Allthough lspci shows the NIC, it is not recognized by the kernel. But > which kernel is it? > > I got the (DOS)BOOTDISK working after updating the e1000.dos and > rebuilding the images, but I'd prefer linuxboot with PXE. >
I believe someone just mentioned this chipset in the last couple of days on this mailing list. You just need to rebuild the linuxboot disk with a patched kernel. He listed step-by-step the process to do that, so you might poke in the archives for the last day or three. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
