On Thursday 14 December 2006 10:56, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 08:23 -0800, Tom Brown wrote: > > On Wednesday 13 December 2006 23:26, Tom Brown wrote: > > > During boot I hit > > > F2 to get to a menu which allows me to select the BIOS setup. It was > > > there I setup the first boot device to be the network. However, what I > > > missed in the menu was the option for re-installation. I need to select > > > that and everything should work correctly. I am going to try that first > > > thing tomorrow. I'll let the list know how it works out. > > > > Well, I tried using the re-installation option from the F2 menu. It > > didn't help. I still get PXELINUX to download and execute, but when it > > comes to booting the kernel, it fails. Back to google for me. Or maybe > > Dell as someone suggested. > > Sorry for your problems, but I'd have to have one in front of me to get > it to work. On thing I have never used (the whole Powervault series for > example) its tough for me to finger the problems or to get the proper > working targets. > > I know, it sucks, but one you get it done, document it. That way others > won't have such a hard time doing the same or similar things. > > I live in Michigan, so unless you are close to Grand Rapids... I'd have > to say my odds of figuring out your conundrum is about nil. I live in Washington State. I almost gathered my comps and flew to Grand Rapids out of sheer frustration. However, I learned a little lesson in "never use MS tools"... again. I was using hyperterm to interface with the nas server and I couldn't read all the output from pxelinux. So, I tried to caputre the output, but it was unreadable. I had to leave this project to go do some real work for awhile. When I came back to it, my head must have cleared a bit because I decided to use teratermpro instead (ok, I probably should have been using a linux box and minicom to begin with, but I only had the windoze box available to me). I captured the output and was able to read the error that my tftp server did not support tsize (whatever that is). I just pointed the netboot to a different tftp server and it just worked. Shoot me.
Well, I hope that this post saves somebody else a lot of time and effort. Thanks, Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
