On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:59 PM, Nick Holland <n...@holland-consulting.net> wrote: > On 08/12/10 13:26, Mark Bucciarelli wrote: >> >> boot> disable acpi > > What's this about? >
Tilting at windmills. > > I take it you are PXE booting because you don't have the lower thingie > which has the floppy and CD for this machine > Correct. > > If you can't do that, could you do an sha256 against your tftp-delivered > bsd.rd and see if it matches that on the FTP server? > Checked out ok. > Have you successfully used your tftp server for anything else? I successfully fetched the pxeboot file and diff said the two were equal. > > Failing that, how about booting with a "boot bsd.rd -c" at the "boot>" > prompt, then doing a "disable apm" then "quit" > Same behavior. Igor S. suggested upgrading the ancient bios, but I'm leery of that with no bootable cd, no floppy, and no usb boot. I can't have the laptop stop working. I suspect pxeboot/tftpd is a red herring and it's the bios. Anyway, thanks for all your efforts. m
