raf@mystic.graphon.com (Rafael Espanol) (05/07/91)
I have experienced a problems with boot proms in the ethernet adapter, which
I got for booting diskless PCs off the network. The original proms worked
well with '286 based machines. These were obtained for diskless boot up
using bootp/tftp.Normally the proms display their commercial message and
then issue bootp requests to the host. I captured a sequence of 4 requests
(normal). The host, which ,if configured correctly, will answer
these requests with bootp responses and then a tftp file transfer to the
PC enables it to boot up a ram-disk image (drive A:) which contains the
proper software to mount (via pc-nfs) a virtual drive( eg. drive P:).
Putting the proms/ethernet adapters into '386sx machines yields the
following error message:
'drive not ready error...etc'.
Does anybody out there recall having this problem before? I would
apprecicate ,very much, any pointers to what the problem is
(hair pulling is the next step). My thought is that it is related
to the '386sx ( instructions or bus ???? ) but
cannot be sure.
Note: the ethernet adapter is a wd8003 with twisted pair port.
Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks.
Raf, raf@mystic.graphon.com
'I am a surfer who programs or a programmed surfer?'