> I've decided to give you ILUG gurus a second chance.
I was beginning to wonder was this still ILUG with all the OT postings
about software patents :)
> 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.)
Well unless you post your partitioning setup and bootloader we cannot tell
;--0
SCSI boots in just the same way as IDE, its just the controller thats
different.
> 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.
PXE boot. You need to set it up. Involves bootp/dhcp and tftp server.
Fairly easy to do, keep meaning to do so but I need to check the MAC
addresses of my servers and make DHCP reservations blah blah blah.
Conor Wynne
Dublin
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