Re: ethernet device booting problem

[OKUJI Yoshinori]

From: "KS kais" <address@hidden>
Subject: ethernet device booting problem
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 10:27:57 +0200

> With (make clean, make distclean before) I tried this several times for 3
> different ethernet cards (2x 3Com and 1x NE2000 RTL8029 clone, all PCI)

  What type of 3Com cards? What options did you specify precisely?

> But if I
> type "bootp" grub hangs or fails in the Probing phase.

  Please describe what GRUB displayed verbosely.

> the floppy match. I have the impression, that no UDP packet is sent on the
> ethernet. My bootp-server log shows nothing. The server part is probably
> correct. If I boot my client(s) normally without grub (on linux) "bootptest
> serverIP" succeeds using the same NIC.

  You should make sure that no packet is really sent, for example, by
tcpdump.

Okuji