[K12OSN] etherboot "slow dots"

Nadav Kavalerchik nadavkav at gmail.com
Sat Feb 17 10:32:42 UTC 2007


in our experience, it has to do with either a failure in the Ethernet
network card or the cable is ending his life and needs to be replaced.

(this is how we solved a few incidents like your, in which the workstations
used to work for a year or two without and problem)

On 2/14/07, Shawn Powers <spowers at inlandlakes.org> wrote:
>
> I have some older IBM computers that use etherboot because they don't
> support PXE.  For some reason, several of them started showing a
> problem where the "dots" that fill up the screen during the boot
> process are glacially slow, and the computers often will fail to boot
> all the way.  A different computer, sitting right next to it, booting
> PXE, boots up lightning quick.
>
> These computers have been thin clients for years, and are connecting
> to the same server all year.  Any ideas where I can troubleshoot the
> booting problem?  It's very odd...
>
> -Shawn
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