On Wednesday 14 January 2009 07:54:39 ltsp-discuss- [email protected] wrote: > - On a non-productive system I can produce (with the kind help of -J.) a > boot-cd using "kiwi-ltsp-setup -cd" and so. This works. > > - what I'd like to was to avoid the CD altogether and have a PXE-boot > image onto the harddisk of the old PC's. > > Well..old and old. It actually puzzles me, because they are quite new > and are all running RealTek 8919 (or something like that) netcards. But > I cannot persuade the BIOS to have them net/PXE booting. > > This used to be a no-brainer and has always worked. But with these > stupid machines, no matter what I do, I can't make them PXE boot. I've > seen it before though...som BIOS's just won't let you boot anything than > the HD even though it says so. > > So I put in new netcards, all with 8919-class RealTek chips. And then I > deactivate the onboard NICs and so. I had hoped that this alone > would/could bring up a PXE boot from the new netcards. Not so. > > So I need a floppy(which the machines don't have) or a USB (which gets > stolen all the time) OR a CD/Harddisk image to get'm booting. > > Hitherto, we'll do with the CD's. > > But if you've got a better idea??
Um, why do you think that the cards WILL pxe boot? Most cards do not have a pxe rom Next you must set your BIOS (INT 19 as I recall) to allow external cards to grab the interrupt and run their code In terms of the bios: some MoBos do not mention Netboot in the BIOS. There is a net boot message during post, and responding to that you can select netboot. Sometimes the BIOS has an entry to allow the NetBoot message to display. You'd definitly be advised to Disable Quick Boot and Disable Logo while you look. James ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
