>>>>> "SJ" == Strange, John <John.ws.Strange@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: SJ> Hey Gang, I'm doing kickst netboots on a lot of machines and wondered SJ> how in the heck do you upgrade the version of PXE on the intergrated SJ> ethernet boards that are part of the Nightshade intel server board. Your only choice is to hope that the motherboard manufacturer puts out a BIOS upgrade for the board which will take care of the card as well. SJ> The problem I'm having is the version of PXE is 0.99c on the card and SJ> only get about halfway through the DHCP conversation before they bomb SJ> out. There are a bunch of weird problems with old versions of PXE clients. Some of them can't just boot with a DHCP and TFTP server; you need a PXE server on your network as well. And to be as inconvenient as possible, sometimes this server has to be run on a different machine than the DHCP server. On other versions, the DHCP server must push out some specific data in a vendor-specific option, else the card will ignore the offer. Perhaps that's what's going on. There are a couple of older documents on netbooting Red Hat 7 and older that were written at a time before the newer clients had come out; they contain some information you might find useful. I've put one of them up at ftp://ftp.math.uh.edu/pub/tibbs/dmdl-pxe.pdf. - J<
