Hi Sandy, I remember that I had problems specifying the correct values for a boot net, too. That's why I "hardcoded" all values in NVRAM. On startup, when the keyboard is initialized, you either press F1 if your box is equipped with a supported graphics adaptor, or 1, when you're using a serial console. A menuing system pops up after the rest of the system initialization is completed. I'm not infront of the box right now, so I don't know all the steps that are needed. But you can configure the first boot method to be net, and you can configure the internal network interface. Specify not only IP-address and subnet mask, but the gateway, too. Network booting won't work if the gateway is missing - even when the server is in the same network and thus a gateway is not needed. If you don't want to use the menuing system, you can use the OK-Prompt, too. You might want to look up the correct variables by using printenv.
Please note that this method of booting requires a running bootp-Server somewhere. To set it up properly you'll need to figure out the MAC-address of the machines internal network interface. You'll find it for example in the menuing system in the "system information" section. bootp is configured by specifying the mac- and ip-address, the subnet-mask, gateway, and name of the file to boot. HTH, Christian
