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Date:      Tue, 22 Jan 2002 13:44:19 +0200
From:      Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
To:        "Jason K. Fritcher" <jkf@wolfnet.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: pxeboot btx halted problem 
Message-ID:  <E16SzLf-000E5U-00@pampa.cs.huji.ac.il>
In-Reply-To: Message from "Jason K. Fritcher" <jkf@wolfnet.org>  of "Tue, 22 Jan 2002 02:30:12 PST." <20020122015725.O55292-100000@outreach.wolfnet.org> 

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> On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Danny Braniss wrote:
> Before I posted my first message, I flashed the last Boot Agent onto the
> NIC, and after seeing your message, I hunted down and flashed the last BIOS
> for the motherboard which was from mid 97. Unfortunately, it is still
> crashing with exactly the same halted message. For those that might be
> interested in the hardware, the system is a Pentium 166, on a Biostar
> 8500TUC MB with 32 MB of RAM. That particular MB uses the Intel 430HX
> chipset. Only expansion cards in the system are a Matrox Millenium video
> card, and the Intel PRO/100 S NIC. There are no hard drives or floppy drives
> in the system. This machine used to be my server until I replaced it a few
> months ago with a new machine.

ok, so till someone can shed some light from the BTX dump (hint hint), check
1) if the pxeboot is ok
2) try tcpdump/ethereal and see if all the file is laoded ok.

i gather that the host you are trying to boot, actualy is in good health ?

danny



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