Re: Please help with 3c905c

["dayalan manohar" <manohar@innomedia.soft.net>]

youve successfully configured your network booting and your kernel has been
downloaded successfully possibly some wrong module has been included or some
thing wrong that causes this dont know
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pierfrancesco Caci" <ik5pvx@penny.ik5pvx.ampr.org>
To: <netboot@baghira.han.de>
Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 2:48 PM
Subject: Please help with 3c905c


>
>
> Hello, I need your assistance with this configuration:
>
> I have a pentium 60 with 16 MB of ram, a video card, a 3c905c and
> nothing else (no disk, no floppy, otherwise I wouldn't be here asking)
>
> I've tried to set up a suitable kernel with "bin00013.bin"
> (cat bin00013.bin bzImage > vmlinuz.net), but when the card has
> finished downloading the kernel from the dhcp/tftp server, it just
> locks up beeping and flooding the screen with garbage.
>
> I've tried to set up a bpbatch script, but it seems that bpbatch is
> geared towards a set of machine _with_ a HD, not totally diskless
> setups.
>
> What I'm asking you?
>
> If you are able to boot a totally diskless machine with a 3c905c card
> using either a modified kernel image or bpbatch, please pass me a full
> step-by-step instruction. I could not understand the existing docs
> myself.
>
> I would rather not flash away the content of the 3c905c eeprom to
> replace it with etherboot (which I know someone has successfully
> done), because I'm not at all confident with all the necessary steps
> and I fear I could irreparably damage the card.
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
> Pf
>
> --
>
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