G'day all, I have a box here that I've been booting from a USB keystick using loadlin. It's reached a point where I really want to PXE boot the thing, but I can't find a Gig-E card in Dubai that has a PXE boot rom on-board.
The current card is an SMC PCI with a Marvell Yukon chip, which is well supported by any later kernel, but it does not have a boot rom. Does anyone know of a decent supplier in Dubai that has a Gig-E PCI card with PXE boot rom? I've tried netboot and etherboot. Etherboot just plain does not support this chip and netboot chokes on the DOS NDIS driver for this particular card. Failing that I guess I'm up for a new motherboard with on-board Gig-E and PXE, but I really have no other reason to upgrade. For those interested, this machine runs an nfsroot off my main server and currently runs a cobbled together hacked up Debian stable image. Boots from a USB keystick (which holds DOS, loadlin and the kernels) and is pretty much my main desktop machine. I'm *trying* to convert it over to a shiny new Ubuntu setup and move away from having to boot from USB, but of course I'm failing miserably at this point as I can't seem to move past 1st base. I've played with netboot now for about 4 hours and my head has a bloody red mark in the middle of my forehead where I've beaten it against the wall. I guess I might have to do what I usually do and just mail order one from the states if I can't locate one here.. Brad -- "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." -- Douglas Adams ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/0XFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dubailug/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
