Please help.. using pxe, etherboot booting ms-dos

[Teddy Jayasaputra]

here is my log file.... .....

Managed PC Boot Agent (MBA) v4.30
(C) Copyright 2000 Lanworks Technologies Co. a subsidiary of 3Com Corporation
All rights reserved.

Pre-boot eXecution Environment(PXE) v2.20
(C) Copyright 1999 Intel Corporation
(C) Copyright 2000 Lanworks Technologies Co. a subsidiary of 3Com Corporation
All rights reserved


CLIENT MAC ADDR: 00 01 02 71 61 C5
CLIENT IP: 10.103.1.200 MASK: 255.255.255.0 DHCP IP: 10.103.1.1
GATEWAY IP: 10.103.1.1
PXE loader for etherboot(with ZLOADER)
0x27FK low memory
PXE unloaded
ROM segment 0x07c0 length 0x2e00 reloc 0x9400
Etherboot 5.0.7 (GPL) Tagged ELF for [3C90X]
Boot from (N)etwork or from (L)ocal?N
Probing...[3C90X]Found 3Com905C-TXM ROM address 0x0000
Probing...[3C90X]Found 3Com905C-TXM ROM address 0x0000


3C90X Driver 2.00 Copyright 1999 LightSys Technology Services, Inc.
Portions Copyright 1999 Steve Smith
Provided with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
MAC Address = 00:01:02:71:61:C5
Connectors present: 10Base-T / 100Base-TX.
Searching for server (DHCP)...
..Me: 10.103.1.200, Server: 10.103.1.1, Gateway 10.103.1.1
Loading 10.103.1.1:3com905c.ghost.msdos ..(NBI)... ...........
..............................................................
.done

DOS Net Boot Image Loader Version 0.8.1 (mknbi-dos)
GPLed by G. Kuhlmann


Starting MS-DOS...

--- and the computer stop responding .. :(



I using ms-dos 6.22 for client.
and server using FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE
install from ports isc-dhcp3-3.0.1.r9, manual install mknbi-1.2-9,
from ports mtools-3.9.8_1, and finally get eb-5[1].0.7-3c905c-tpo.lzpxe
from http://www.rom-o-matic.org.

create diskboot using :
dd if=/dev/fd0 /image/ghost
then
mknbi-dos /image/ghost > /usr/tftboot/3com905c.ghost.msdos

is that possible to success boot ms-dos via network, run pktdrv,
and execute norton ghost multicast ?
or need some special configuration when making imagefile / diskboot ?


thanks for your help,




-Teddy-



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[Rizsanyi Zsolt]

Post by Teddy Jayasaputra
here is my log file.... .....
Managed PC Boot Agent (MBA) v4.30
(C) Copyright 2000 Lanworks Technologies Co. a subsidiary of 3Com
Corporation All rights reserved.
Pre-boot eXecution Environment(PXE) v2.20
(C) Copyright 1999 Intel Corporation
(C) Copyright 2000 Lanworks Technologies Co. a subsidiary of 3Com
Corporation All rights reserved
CLIENT MAC ADDR: 00 01 02 71 61 C5
CLIENT IP: 10.103.1.200 MASK: 255.255.255.0 DHCP IP: 10.103.1.1
GATEWAY IP: 10.103.1.1
PXE loader for etherboot(with ZLOADER)
0x27FK low memory
PXE unloaded
ROM segment 0x07c0 length 0x2e00 reloc 0x9400
Etherboot 5.0.7 (GPL) Tagged ELF for [3C90X]
Boot from (N)etwork or from (L)ocal?N
Probing...[3C90X]Found 3Com905C-TXM ROM address 0x0000
Probing...[3C90X]Found 3Com905C-TXM ROM address 0x0000
3C90X Driver 2.00 Copyright 1999 LightSys Technology Services, Inc.
Portions Copyright 1999 Steve Smith
Provided with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
MAC Address = 00:01:02:71:61:C5
Connectors present: 10Base-T / 100Base-TX.
Searching for server (DHCP)...
..Me: 10.103.1.200, Server: 10.103.1.1, Gateway 10.103.1.1
Loading 10.103.1.1:3com905c.ghost.msdos ..(NBI)... ...........
..............................................................
.done
DOS Net Boot Image Loader Version 0.8.1 (mknbi-dos)
GPLed by G. Kuhlmann
Starting MS-DOS...
--- and the computer stop responding .. :(
I using ms-dos 6.22 for client.
and server using FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE
install from ports isc-dhcp3-3.0.1.r9, manual install mknbi-1.2-9,
from ports mtools-3.9.8_1, and finally get eb-5[1].0.7-3c905c-tpo.lzpxe
from http://www.rom-o-matic.org.
dd if=/dev/fd0 /image/ghost
then
mknbi-dos /image/ghost > /usr/tftboot/3com905c.ghost.msdos
is that possible to success boot ms-dos via network, run pktdrv,
and execute norton ghost multicast ?
or need some special configuration when making imagefile / diskboot ?

I never succeeded booting a machine with pxe -> etherboot -> msdos.
But leaving out pxe helped in the most cases.

So the suggestion is to flash etherboot in your bios (replace the pxe code
with it).

I dont know anything about ghost.

Regards
Zsolt


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[Teddy Jayasaputra]

i using pxe builtin from ethernet 3com905c rom, i never replaced it with
etherboot rom.

What i'm done is like Marty Connor do at
http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/msg.php3?msg_id=6129709&list=5299

the idea is "fooling" pxe to boot etherboot rom, unload pxe and load the
original image.file build by mknbi-dos.

the main goal is :
all client booting network using pxe, server give dos image, and all
client booting from it. can it happend ? ( like novel netware do ?)

ghost ?
Norton Ghost, build by Symantec for duplicate harddisk to harddisk, very
fast when you must install linux in about 50 computers, with same
specification, and same configuration :)

sorry, for my english...

thank you,



-Teddy-

Post by Rizsanyi Zsolt
I never succeeded booting a machine with pxe -> etherboot -> msdos.
But leaving out pxe helped in the most cases.
So the suggestion is to flash etherboot in your bios (replace the pxe code
with it).
I dont know anything about ghost.
Regards
Zsolt

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