[ILUG] (Q) Booting over LAN

[Chris Higgins]

On Mon, 31 May 2004 16:43:20 +0100
Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote:

> I've decided to give you ILUG gurus a second chance.

What's the plural of guru ? 
Shouldn't it just be guru ? 
Then shouldn't it be "s/you ILUG gurus/the ILUG guru/".
The webster online dictionary seems to side with you,
but that just means that you are both wrong. :-)

> 
> 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,

http://www.kegel.com/linux/pxe.html

I was looking at the BIOS on a P4 recently, and it
had the 'boot from LAN' as an option, but on boot
there was an 'press Fsomething to configure PXE'
option presented.

That then let you configure exactly how you wanted
the PXE boot to happen ( I seem to recall it set
timeouts and other stuff )... 

So it may be that you've told the bios to boot
using the PXE engine - but the PXE engine needs
further configuration to get to know what it
wants to do.
> 
> I await your words of wisdom.

You don't really expect us to quote the whole of the lyrics
from the song http://www.lyrics-4all.net/Let_It_Be_Lyrics.html
when you can just go and look it up yourself ? :-)

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