Robin,

Is there any chance that this computer has another NIC built in ?

Etherboot is searching for a specific nic, because the floppy has a
certain driver on it.

But, once the kernel starts running, it just looks for any nic it can
find, and perhaps it's finding the onboard nic before your add-on nic.

if that's the case, then you'll need to tell the kernel explicitly what
to look for.  You can do that with an option-128 and option-129 in the
dhcpd.conf file.  There's some information on that in an old LTSP-3
quick install guide.  http://www.ltsp.org/instructions-3.0.html

Way down at the bottom.  This is the same thing we need to do when ISA
nics are used.

If you are still having problems, give us a bit more info, like what
kind of NIC you have, and also you should be watching the
/var/log/messages file, to see if the server is getting the 2nd DHCP
request.

Jim McQuillan
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On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Robin Bonin wrote:

> I have a compaq computer that I am trying to boot from floppy.
> It is able to load the intial kernel, and download the LTSP kernel,
> but then I get the following
>
> running DHCPD on port 67
> Error! DHCPD Failed
> Kernel Panic
>
> I have used this exact same nic and floppydisk in another system with
> no problems
>
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