[K12OSN] Mac won't netboot any more
Petre Scheie
petre at maltzen.net
Thu Sep 22 14:04:47 UTC 2005
It seems it was indeed the Airport that was the culprit, although the results of my
analysis aren't entirely black & white. I unpowered the Airport, booted the Mac while
pressing the N key--which worked when I first got this Mac back in the spring--and while
the globe icon blinked only twice, which is usually a good sign, it then disappeared,
but then the booting process progressed no further. I rebooted into OS X, changed the
boot device from the local disk to network, rebooted, and it worked like a champ,
loading Linux from the LTSP server. So, I'm confident the source of the problem is the
Airport (especially since it has caused some other problems on the network).
I figure I'll try to configure the Airport's DHCP to respond only to the one laptop it's
supporting. I tried to get into the setup, using both the laptop and a wired Mac, using
the Airport Admin utility (I forget the exact name) but it won't let me in. It doesn't
seem to have a admin-via-web-browser interface. For that, I'll agree, Stupid Apple.
Thanks Jim. I never would have thought of the Airport if you hadn't mentioned the
possibility of another DHCP server.
Petre
Jim Kronebusch wrote:
>>id swear the gd airports default to serving out dhcp..first class
>>pain in the tail..chuck
>
>
> Yeah, I wish they defaulted to network bridging with DHCP off. Who the heck
> uses a airport in standalone mode? They are almost always hanging off of
> another network.
>
> Stupid Apple :-)
>
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