Matt, Right! But I am 100% sure that won't work without a floppy drive! After all mine is a _diskless_ workstation! ;-)
Thanks, Wouter On 05-Feb-02 Egan, Matt B. (Artco) wrote: > But for testing you would be fine just using a boot floppy (temp) > > Right? > > Matt > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 4:12 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] DHCPD option-129 again > > Wouter, > > There ya go! That version of Etherboot is too old to handle > the command line args properly. > > One way to fix it is to burn new eproms with the latest > etherboot code. > > Another interesting way to fix it came up yesterday > on the #ltsp IRC channel. > > Jason Pattie figured out how to have the older etherboot > grab a newer etherboot from the tftp server, which in turn > would grab the kernel and pass the options properly. > > it involved trickery in the dhcpd.conf file, which btw, required > dhcpd version 3.0. > > I'll see if I can get Jason to document what he has done. > > Jim McQuillan > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Jim, >> >> Thanks for looking into my Etherboot/DHCP problem. >> >> I am using Etherboot/32 version 4.2.9 for [NE*000] burned into an >> EEPROM. >> >> The Kernel command line contains: >> rw root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc rw >> but nothing about the NIC. >> >> Wouter >> >> >> >> On 05-Feb-02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > What version of Etherboot are you using on those workstations ? >> > >> > Older versions, I think before 5.0 don't handle the kernel >> > command line options the same way. >> > >> > once it fails, try hitting Shift-PageUp and scroll backwards >> > through the kernel startup messages and see if you >> > can find the place where the kernel command line is displayed. >> >> >> -------------------------------------------- >> Wouter DeBacker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> 05-Feb-02 23:31:59 (SuSE Linux Xfmail) >> -------------------------------------------- >> >> ___________________________________________________________________ >> __ >> 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.openprojects.net >> > > > ____________________________________________________________________ > _ > 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.openprojects.net > > ____________________________________________________________________ > _ > 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.openprojects.net -------------------------------------------- Wouter DeBacker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 06-Feb-02 01:15:41 (SuSE Linux Xfmail) -------------------------------------------- _____________________________________________________________________ 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.openprojects.net
