[K12OSN] PXE boot problems...

[Timothy Legge]

On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 16:47, ROGER (Tripp) LOWE wrote:
> What other boot alternatives do I have.  Apparently, the Marvell LAN (onboard) is not
> supported by Etherboot (see reply from Timothy Legge).  I could put another NIC in, but
> I want to use them at 1000, not 100 (I only have more 10/100s).
> 
> If I install Linux on this machine and update the LAN driver, can I create a boot disk (automatically)
> to boot diskless?
> 
> (I'm fishin' here...)
> As a last resort, could I install a minimal install on the harddrive to initiate the LAN and then boot from the server?
> 
> I don't mind being creative, so if anybody has ANY suggestions, I'd love to hear them.
> 

Your trouble is that the ltsp kernel is not recognizing the nic.  I have
been talking to Jim McQuillan on irc and asked him to add the following
pci ids:

1186:4c00 sk98lin
11ab:4320 sk98lin
1371:434e sk98lin
1737:1032 sk98lin
1737:1064 sk98lin

I would imagine that if you ran lspci -n on that machine you would see
one of those.

I will ask him if there is a way to force the linux kernel loaded by
pxelinux to recognize those but I imagine it will require a new kernel.

Tim