Jim,
Regarding fix 1:
Your previous reply made me suspect that. I went to rom-o-matic to
download newer versions (5.0.5) of the Etherboot floppy and ROM images
for NE*000 ISA NICs.
In order to try the floppy boot first, I'll have to re-connect a
floppy drive to the terminal though. That'll be for tomorrow. It's
bedtime over here (01:10AM GMT+1) ;-)
I'll let you know. Afterwards it might be worthwhile to stress on the
Etherboot version in the LTSP documentation.
Regarding fix 2:
SuSE v7.2 has dhcpd v3.0rc4 so that would be no problem. It's the
trickery, non-standard tinkering with dhcpd.conf that bothers me. I'd
rather stick to standard ways of installing LTSP in order to preserve
the possibility to upgrade if necessary.
Thanks for your help.
Nighty night.
Wouter
On 05-Feb-02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> There ya go! That version of Etherboot is too old to handle
> the command line args properly.
>
> One way to fix it is to burn new eproms with the latest
> etherboot code.
> Another interesting way to fix it came up yesterday
> on the #ltsp IRC channel.
>
> Jason Pattie figured out how to have the older etherboot
> grab a newer etherboot from the tftp server, which in turn
> would grab the kernel and pass the options properly.
>
> it involved trickery in the dhcpd.conf file, which btw, required
> dhcpd version 3.0.
>
> I'll see if I can get Jason to document what he has done.
> Jim McQuillan
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
> On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> Jim,
>>
>> Thanks for looking into my Etherboot/DHCP problem.
>>
>> I am using Etherboot/32 version 4.2.9 for [NE*000] burned into an
>> EEPROM.
>>
>> The Kernel command line contains:
>> rw root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc rw
>> but nothing about the NIC.
>>
>> Wouter
>>
>>
>>
>> On 05-Feb-02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> > What version of Etherboot are you using on those workstations ?
>> >
>> > Older versions, I think before 5.0 don't handle the kernel
>> > command line options the same way.
>> >
>> > once it fails, try hitting Shift-PageUp and scroll backwards
>> > through the kernel startup messages and see if you
>> > can find the place where the kernel command line is displayed.
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Wouter DeBacker ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
06-Feb-02 01:12:20 (SuSE Linux Xfmail)
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