Re: OpenBSD PXE

["Diana Eichert" <deichert@wrench.com>]

Duncan Martin <openbsd@codebunny.org> said:

> Hi,
> 
> > *Narf pfff sound* already did that how ever i did for get to menson that  
> > the prupost solution with the *patched* grub pxe won't work with my sis 
PXE,
> > so i'm looking some thing else.
> Well, some more info would be useful.  First of all what Intel card is it?  
Not
> all of them can netboot.
> 
> Secondly, have you made sure the the net card is set to try pxe boot in 
*its*
> BIOS (as well as of course the BIOS on the motherboard).  There's a key 
combo,
> but I forget it.  I think if you download the latest Intel firmware it's in
> the docs.  Oh yeah, make sure you've got a decent firmware revision.
> 
> How far does it get?  Does it see the DHCP server?  Does the DHCP server 
pass
> the kernel via TFTP?  Does the kernel start to boot?
> 
> Duncan

Doesn't look like they're using an Intel card, something to do with their 
mention of "sis PXE".  I know of several momboards that use sis NICs that 
support PXE.

I also know of at least one person who built the hacked PXEGRUB to support 
the sis NIC.  Unfortunately you have to build PXEGRUB on a Linux system, 
which I don't have.

Darren pointed them in an interesting direction, use the NetBSD PXE boot 
loader.  I haven't tried that yet, but there was at least one other person 
out there in the last week who was trying to do that.

g,day