Hi Anslem, thanks for your suggestions. Well I'tried to boot the Lance Disk Image from a different hard disk, but it failed also. The machine is hanging on the last BIOS message. Unfortunately it is not possible to install any cards into this machine. There are no available expansion slots. But maybe I have got some idea for the source of the problem. I made some tests with grub. When I tried to use to boot the machine over network I got the following message: Found AMD Lance/ PCI The PCI BIOS has not enabled this device. Updating PCI command 0003 ->0007 After this the network card is working.
I suspect that the etherboot routine is hanging on enabling the card. Stephan > Hello Stephan, > > SB> Hello, > SB> I'm trying to run an old NC-Java station as a X-Terminal. > SB> The machine configuration is a little bit special: > SB> - Cyrix Pentium-S CPU > SB> - Built in AMD -PC-NET32 LAN (I can use this kernel modul to run the > LAN) SB> - No EPROM socket > SB> - BIOS-built in Java boot (can be disabled) > SB> - Non-Common FD connector > SB> - AT- Connector > > SB> Because I can not make use of the FDC (special connector), I'm trying > to use a SB> image bootet from an old harddisk, to start the boot process. > For this I SB> downloaded from rom-o-matic a couple of images, created for > lilo-boot. SB> LILO is installed on the HD and running. The image is > accepted by LILO but all SB> images for the Lance NIC family fail. > > SB> The only messages I get from LILO is: Booting LTSPLANCE > > SB> Thats is. No progress, no further information. > > SB> Any help or idea is appreciated . > > I miss the etherboot startup message and version no. > Try the floppy image, writing it to the harddisk mbr with dd > (e.g. if that drive is hanged to another linux box as /dev/hdc, try > "dd if=etherboot-5.0.x-lance.lzdsk of=/dev/hdc"). Does it at least > print a prompt? > > As of your pci id problem; what does "lspci" say about that device? > You probably could change the etherboot source code (or even someone > could do for you) to also include another PCI ID. IMHO, the lspci > output is easier to read :-) > > BTW, I don't know these Java stations. If they have PCI, you can spend > some 10 Euro per box and put some Realtek based NIC into them. Or find > out about the FD connector, perhaps somewhere on the net there is a > cabling diagram. > > SB> Thanks > > SB> Stephan > > Viel Erfolg, > > Anselm mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: FREE SSL Guide from Thawte are you planning your Web Server Security? Click here to get a FREE Thawte SSL guide and find the answers to all your SSL security issues. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0026en _____________________________________________________________________ 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
