[K12OSN] 3c509 won't boot

[gKw-X]

Thanks for the response! I managed to get it working.

I'm proud to say that I got every single computer in that lab booting, 
with the resolution optimized individually for each screen... Now if I 
can just get the foppies/cdroms working :(

Petre Scheie wrote:
> For ISA ethernet cards I think you may have to add
> 
> option option-128 e4:45:74:68:00:00;
> 
> to the client stanza in your dhcpd.conf.  I've got one workstation with 
> a 3c509 and my dhcpd.conf looks like this:
> 
> host wendolene {
>         hardware ethernet     00:20:AF:14:DB:0B;
>         fixed-address         172.26.18.5;
>         filename              "/lts/vmlinuz.ltsp";
>         option option-128 e4:45:74:68:00:00;
>         option option-129 "NIC=3c509 
> MOPTS=nolock,ro,wsize=2048,rsize=2048";
> 
> Note that the 'e4:45:74:68:00:00' part of the option-128 line is not a 
> MAC address and therefore you should not change it.  I had to add the 
> MOPTS part to the last line because, being a 10Mbit card, it was having 
> trouble at the pivot-root stage.  See the LTSP wiki page on ISA cards at 
> http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/NetworkCards#ISA_Network_Interface_Cards 
> and the page on MOPTS at http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/NFS 
> for more info.
> 
> Petre
> 
> NONE NONE wrote:
> 
>> Ok I'm back at it today... I have three computers with a 3com card, 
>> the 3c509. I made the rom-o-matic boot disk and they load it fine, and 
>> connect, and start with the boot process, but then they die with 
>> "kernel panic: attempted to kill init".
>>
>> The message says could not automatically detect the network card, etc 
>> etc, if it's an ISA card add NIC= parameter in option-129 to 
>> /etc/dhcpd.conf
>>
>> So I think I've done this, I copy/pasted one of the entries and 
>> changed the MAC address to that of the computer that won't load:
>>
>>     host ws008 {
>>         hardware ethernet     00:60:08:9D:B5:1C;
>>         option option-129 "NIC=3c509";
>>     }
>>
>> However, it still won't load, it gives the same error. Help! One other 
>> thing, it says in dhcpd.conf:
>>
>> # Don't forget to set run_dhcpd=1 in /etc/init.d/dhcpd
>> # once you adjusted this file and copied it to /etc/dhcpd.conf.
>>
>> Which I didn't do... But I initially left out a semicolon, and then 
>> nothing would boot, until I put it back, and now everything else boots 
>> like normal again, so it must be loading these settings...
>>
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