[gPXE] Mixed Results
FM
fm9 at shaw.ca
Mon Jul 5 09:59:07 EDT 2010
Had a fun weekend !
Managed to Flash 2 built in Nics.
One was a Shuttle S40G Socket A with Realtek 8139, and a Via Rhine
II in a Via socket 754 board.
The bios on the Shuttle is only 256kb and 55.5kb was the Maximum size
that I could replace the original PCI ether lom with.
I wasn't sure what to strip with rom-o-matic , but if I remember
correctly it was all the wireless, sans boot, iscsi, comboot and
Multiboot.
I left HTTPS selected on both boards, this might have increased the
size. I still havn't got around to HTTPS on my setup yet.
My basic setup is /var/www/slitaz/ directory with the kernel, initrd
there. This is super easy to extract from the iso and use for
testing. It's a little richer than Tinycore , but that works well to.
Results
The Shuttle box booted and kept the internet connection . The startup
ip was 192.168.0.20 and it retained that ip and could connect to to
the net from the server . The Slitaz network config tool gave it
192.168.0.6 route 192.168.0.1 dns 192.168.0.1 , but it works.
The Via board with the Via Rhine II nic can't connect to the net or
ping anything after booting. I tried to re-assign the 192.168.0.28
ip from the gpxe config settings , but it doesn't activate.
I'm thinking some hardware like USB or X kicks out the IP info . Or
the router has some left over management rules , unlikely . The Intel
1000 nic did the same thing in the Via tower, couldn't retain a
connection to the net.
Or else it's something with the server .
I used that latest 1.0.1 sources for the Rom-O-Matic Roms.
One again Great Project Looking forward to trying HTTPS next.
Cheers
Fergus
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