Charlie Brady wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Andrew Coulthurst wrote: > > > Has anyone had a problem with etherboot-4.0 and the boot from network > > prompt ?? > > > > On my machine the machine hangs if I select N. ( that is , continue with > > normal boot from floppy/harddisk ). > > Yes, I have this problem now. DOS boots fine if I select N (normal boot > from HD). Win95 hangs however. I have no idea what is different about the > way that Win95 boots, but there is a difference. Does anyone have any > ideas? > > I am using the 32bit compile of etherboot-4.0, BTW. > > Charlie Brady - Telstra |internet: cbrady@ind.tansu.com.au > Network Products |Snail : Locked Bag 6581, GPO Sydney 2001 Australia > Platform Technologies |Physical : Lvl 2, 175 Liverpool St, Sydney 2000 > IN-Sub Unit - Sydney | Phone: +61 2 9206 3470 Fax: +61 2 9281 1301 I have a similar problem using a netboot-0-7.3 eprom on a 3c905-TX. DOS and NT boot fine if i choose local boot, but WIN95 hangs for some minutes and then resets the PC. I *think* i have read somewhere that WIN95 doesn't like fully initialized NICs when booting?? -- Heinrich Rebehn University of Bremen Physics / Electrical and Electronics Engineering - Department of Telecommunications - E-mail: mailto:rebehn@comm.uni-bremen.de Phone : +49/421/218-4664 Fax : -3341
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