[K12OSN] 3c509 won't boot

[Petre Scheie]

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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