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From: "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su>
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Subject: Re: Diskless booting - netboot.com problems?
To: phk@ref.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp)
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 11:29:19 -0500 (GMT-0500)
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In-Reply-To: <199503170526.VAA14705@ref.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Mar 16, 95 09:26:31 pm
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> > I don't know why it doesn't works. But when I wrote support for 3c509 I 
> > got the same error until I fixed name of card. Moreover, this error 
> > explicitly means that NFS can't find the interface specified by
> > the network boot.
> 
> Yes, there is evil code that know to look for "ed%d" in the disk-less
> startup.  Somebody needs to revise the netboot.[rc]om to pass the
> interface name prefix ("ed" or "ie" ...) in the boot structure, and
> use that instead.

I did it when added support for 3C509. Now there is an eth_fillname()
function in ether.c which is called from main.c in version I published.

	Serge Babkin