Operating System Not Found Error.

[Hugh E Cruickshank]

Hi Andrew:

The messages you are seeing are probably coming from you network
card when it can not find a bootable system on your local machine.
It is attempting to do a remote OS load.

It sounds like the system can not find your hard drive. I would
first check the boot sequence in BIOS to make sure it is still
configured to boot form the hard drive. I would then boot from
a floppy or CD and check that a) the hard drive is still
configured, b) that it is readable c) that it still has a 
valid partition table, d) that it still has a valid MBR and
e) that it still has a valid LINUX division table.

HTH

Regards, Hugh

-- 
Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com 

From: Andrew Bridgeman Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 03:50
> 
> I have come in this morning to find out one of Linux boxes a HP X4000
> running (Redhat 7.1) in a state where it cannot boot the 
> operating system i
> get a black screen with the error below
> 
> CLIENT MAC ADDR: 00 E0 81 Q0 58 8C GUID.00000000.000 etc
> PXE-E53 NO BOOT FILENAME RECIEVED
> PXE- MQF EXISTING INTEL PXE ROM
> OPERATING SYSTEM NOT FOUND
> 
> Then it repeats itself over and over.
> 
> It seems to be looking for DHCP for a while then gives up and 
> keeps doing a
> loop, the strange thing is that it has not been set-up for DHCP . The
> machine has a static Mac address.
> 
> Can someone please advise me on what to check and do in reasonable simple
> terms to sort this issue out. Thanks
>