[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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