[ILUG] (Q) Booting over LAN

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Timothy Murphy" <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie>
To: "ILUG" <ilug at linux.ie>
Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 4:43 PM
Subject: [ILUG] (Q) Booting over LAN


> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Timothy Murphy  
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