That's good to know, I'll try that out later today, but that seems like a difficult workaround for my end users. Anyone know of any other solutions? Tiburcio.
On 6/21/05, Jim McQuillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tiburcio, > > The problem you describe is common. Etherboot doesn't always play well > with the bios boot order. > > What you should be able to do, is once you see the > 'DisklessWorkstations.com' line during the card initialization, you have > about 3 seconds to press any key on the keyboard. > > That should cause a boot menu to appear, at which point, you can hit 'L' > for Local boot. That will cause the bootrom to hand control back to the > bios, which will then attempt to boot from the local drive. > > Jim McQuillan > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, EL CHAVO! wrote: > > > Hello, > > I'm migrating a few computers to LTSP and it's working out nicely, > > though I did run across something that has me puzzled. I ordered the > > bootroms for a linksys card V. 4.1 and it works perfectly, only that > > when I have this card in a system with a hard drive (I want to keep > > that Linux/windows available for now) it will refuse to boot off > > anything but the Network, changing the bios to force floppy, hd0, or > > cd does little, still boots from the lan. Is this common or does this > > sound like a problem with my machine? I've had to remove the rom for > > now. Any info would be appreciated. Tiburcio. > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies > > from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, > > informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to > > speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt77&alloc_id492&op=click > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > 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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt77&alloc_id492&op=click _____________________________________________________________________ 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
