I've decided to give you ILUG gurus a second chance.
You failed your first test, to explain why my SCSI machine
(Asus P2B-LS) won't boot off the hard disk,
although it boots off floppy and CD without problem.
(The MBR seems OK, when I look at it with dd.)
Anyway, I noticed yesterday that one of the options
offered by the BIOS is to boot from LAN,
and I was wondering how this was accomplished.
I tried setting it as the first option (LAN,C,A)
but it didn't send out any Ethernet packets,
and didn't seem to wait to get any either.
The motherboard has built-in ethernet,
I await your words of wisdom.
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Timothy Murphy
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s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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