[gPXE] gPXE 1.0.0-rc1 Test Report & Question

[Neil Smith]

Robert, 

Could you please explain in more detail what type of setup you are running, and what errors you are getting returned? 

I have plenty of Dell Opti 755s running on my end, with no issues... 

Regards,
Neil 


On Jan 26, 2010, at 6:08 PM, Robert Boerner wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I'm a bit of a newb in terms of gPXE, but after successfully setting
> up plain old PXE booting last week on a Marvell Sheevaplug, I wanted
> to dip my toes into new waters.
> 
> I saw the release announcement on the soon to be retired Etherboot
> mailing list here:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=4B5F5EA3.3040505%40etherboot.org
> 
> and tried to download a floppy image (including all NIC drivers) to
> test on my work desktop (a Dell Optiplex 755) with an Intel 82566DM-2
> Gigabit NIC identified with vendor ID 8086 and device ID 10bd.
> 
> The floppy boots but does not seem to find a supported NIC. I googled
> a bit and found nothing relevant to gPXE, but I did find this bug in
> your bug tracker:
> 
> http://support.etherboot.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=43
> 
> Although not exactly the same device, am I correct in assuming that my
> NIC simply is not supported yet? Or did I simply do something wrong?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help, and thanks for the work you have done.
> 
> Robert Boerner
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