[eepro100] PXE/DHCP using Intel Pro/100 VE

[Traylen, SM (Steve)]

>On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Marti wrote:

>> I'm having difficulty getting some Gateway machines with integrated
>> Pro/100 VEs to boot using PXE. They'll boot fine, fine pxelinux, and
>> load the kernel, recognizing the ethernet card, but will not make any
>> attempts (as far as I can determine from the console output) to
>> autonegotiate DHCP.

>Do you mean "second phase DHCP", where they send a new request to the
>DHCP server asking for what NFS file system to mount?

>> The kernel then stops, waiting for a root
>> filesystem. Based on resources I've come up with from this and other
>> lists' archives, I've tried:

Marti,

Does the kernel have dhcp autoconfiguration either compiled in or
loaded from and initrd?

Also I always add ip=dhcp as option to the kernel 

  Steve
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