[K12OSN] Re: K12OSN] Dell Client boot trouble - NEWBIE

[William Fragakis]

Older Dells (at least the infamous GX1s) can be cured the same way we
also cured older Compaqs with mods to the /etc/xinetd.d/tftp
and /etc/sysctl.conf files. NICs running PXE versions 0.99b and older
seem to have the issue. You could reflash the BIOS or just do the file
mods.

see
http://morrisbrandon.com/index.php?name=BeeBoard&tid=2&pathext=Server%
20Files/

for the modded files

regards,
William

On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 12:00 -0400, k12osn-request at redhat.com wrote:
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 12:32:25 -0500
> From: Les Mikesell <les at futuresource.com>
> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Dell Client boot trouble - NEWBIE
> To: "Support list for opensource software in schools."
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> On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 11:42, Barry R Cisna wrote:
> 
> > I had a very similar problem, trying to boot certain dell's with
> onboard
> > nics. Even though they are PXE compliant, LTSP server seems to have
> > probs with some of these onboard nics.
> 
> The older Dells generally need a flash BIOS update to work right
> with PXE - but I'm not sure they get far enough to try the
> NFS mount if that is the problem.  Dell is very good about making
> the updates available for old equipment.
> 
> -- 
>   Les Mikesell
>    les at futuresource.com
>