Michael Agbaglo wrote: > > When I boot the floppy I get > > Loading ROM image. > 1000 > AX:0211 > BX:0000 > CX:0000 > DX:0000. This indicates that the floppy disk used is having read errors. It seems to be able to read the sectors eventually, but it needs several tries. Use a different floppy. If that doesn't help, you need a new floppy drive. > the block w/ the numbers is repeated sometimes more sometimes less. When > it succeeds more points in the DX: line are displayed. > Then the driver installs and displays a copyright notice. > The driver has no problem to talk to the DHCP server. But it's not able > to load the kernel. Any reasonable error message here? Any log entry on the server? A last try would be to use a packet sniffer... > tftp works on the OS server (locally) and on machines which are on the > same segment. > > I'm using > > ASUS P55T2P4 > 3COM 905-TX (bootrom socket empty) > Etherboot 4.2.13 - I can't use 4.6.2 because my C compiler is too old. I > compiled the 4.6.2 at a friends machine but no .rom file was > generated... What error messages were printed? It should compile with fairly old tools, but this is rarely tested... =========================================================================== This Mail was sent to netboot mailing list by: Klaus Espenlaub <espenlaub@informatik.uni-ulm.de> To get help about this list, send a mail with 'help' as the only string in it's body to majordomo@baghira.han.de. If you have problems with this list, send a mail to netboot-owner@baghira.han.de.
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