Hello

Could someone please help with getting PXE booting to work with Intel Pro/1000 MT desktop nics (10/100/1000).

 

I have a standard Redhat Hat 8 install � actually k12ltsp�s version 3 package.

 

Following is what I have tried:

 

  1. Booted pc with nic and received the following error message:

Error � could not automatically detect network card

PCI cards should be detected automatically

ISA card cannot be detected, so they requrire

The nic driver to be specified in a �NIC� = parameter

To be passed on to the kernel line,

Usually specified in Option-129, in the

/etc/dhcpd.conf file.

 

  1. Realizing that this nic did not have a driver for it in the standard Redhat 8 system, I grabbed Intels driver and compilied it and placed it in the /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14/drivers/net directory. I ran lsmod to see if it worked, came back with various info, all seemed well.
  2. Tried again, and got the error from number 1.
  3. Next I added the following to the dhcpd.conf file

host ws100 {

                option option-128 00:07:e9:0c:eb:79;

                option option-129 "NIC=e100";

                hardware ethernet 00:07:E9:0C:EB:79;

                fixed-address 192.168.0.100;

                }

  1. Booted, and got error from number 1.
  2. Next I added the following to my dhcpd.conf file

host ws100 {

                filename "/lts/vmlinuz-2.4.18-ltsp";  ###Note this is the addition

                option option-128 00:07:e9:0c:eb:79;

                option option-129 "NIC=e100";

                hardware ethernet 00:07:E9:0C:EB:79;

                fixed-address 192.168.0.100;

                }

  1. After booting with this I got the following error

PXE-E79: NBP is to big to fit in free base memory

  1. Next I change the file name line to say the follwing:

filename "/lts/boot/pxe/pxelinux.bin";

  1. This time when I boot I get the following error message:

PXE-T101 file not found (but it is there)

 

Again if someone could please help me I would be most grateful



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