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I'm trying to use PXE to boot & install RedHat boxes. I have it working with one NIC card, but am having problems with a Dell Precision Workstation 530. According to the specs the card is as follows: integrated 3C920-based 10/100 3Com? Ethernet controller with Remote Wake Up capabilities (3C905C-TX compatible) The problem with this particular machine/NIC is that it's getting ARP Timeouts when it starts the TFTP. tcpdump shows an arp request looking for the gateway, but no reply. Some background info: Se...

...IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : cofrny.gov Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : cityofrochester.gov Description . . . . . . . . . . . : 3Com 3C920 Integrated Fast Ethernet Controller (3C905C-TX Compatible) Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-06-5B-4A-26-C6 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 172.16.4.251 Subnet Mask . . ....

Hello All, I seem to be having a problem with PXE under the 3com MBA once the pxe loads the standard redhat 7.2 lilo prompt and I type my label which is a4-72 and hit enter, I get: Loading vmlinuz... and it stops most of the time. Sometimes it loads and once it gets to the part of installing linux the screen turns red and I get "interrupt handler not syncing" Thanks -- Otis DeWitt -

...osts to this list have indicated that the suspect was the PXE BIOS (ref "PXELinux can't load the config file?" dated March 20, 2003). Does that still appear to be the case given the configurations I have tried (see below). System: Dell Precision Workstation 620 NIC: On-board 3Com 3C920 Integrated Fast Ethernet Controller (3C905C-TX Compatible) Fails: Syslinux 2.02 with Dell Bios A07 (MBA 4.03 - PXE V2.02), tftp-hpa-0.33 on Solaris Fails: Syslinux 2.06 with Dell Bios A11 (MBA 4.31 - PXE V2.41), tftp-hpa-0.33 on Solaris The abbreviated form of ethernet packets follows to provide...