Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 14:43:00 +0300 From: Martes Wigglesworth <martes.wigglesworth@earthlink.net> To: freebsd-isp list <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org> Subject: Problems with autoboot on powerup... Message-ID: <1103370180.648.5.camel@Mobile1.276NET>
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Greetings. I was just hoping that someone has had experience getting the PCChips motherboards to boot on lan, or boot with power. The bios does not have the same nifty options like the old days, where it has an option for keeping the state just before losing power. I have noticed this on alot of new bioses. They don't allow you to tell the motherboard to autoboot, when power if applied. I have it hooked up to a switch, and the clients are sending packets, however, nothing happens. Hence, "Boot-on-lan" is seemingly worthless, as well. I have never actually seen ANY boot-on-lan motherboard, actually Boot on lan packets being sent, so I have come to beleive that this is not even a real option, but no one actually realises this, since they never actually have to use it. I would appreciate some assistance. (Please excuse the frustration, but it is really irritating when manufacturer take out options that work, for newer, frilly nonsense, that doesn't.) -- Respectfully, M.G.W. System: AMD Pro 1800 256MB RAM 40GB HD 10/100 NIC BSD-5.2.1-RELEASE
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