Re: Re: [Etherboot-users] http://rom-o-matic.net updated with Etherboot-5.4.0

> Thanks for your report, Sam.
> 
> Can you give a little more detail on how you are trying to load memtest86+?

Sure thing! I've downloaded and uncompressed the etherboot 5.4.0 src and 
done:

cd etherboot-5.4.0
cd src
gmake bin/eepro100.zpxe
mv bin/eepro100.zpxe /tftpboot

I then have an entry in dhcpd.conf:


class "machinesIcareabout"{
         match substring ( hardware, 1,3);
         if substring (option vendor-class-identifier, 0,9) = "Etherboot" {
                 filename "menu.nfl";
         } else if substring (option vendor-class-identifier, 0,9) = 
"PXEClient"
{
                 filename "eepro100.zpxe";
         }
}
subclass "machinesIcareabout" 00:13:20;


I then downloaded mknbi-1.4.4 and did:
cd mknbi-1.4.4
echo memtest> menu.txt
mkelf-nfl menu.txt > /tftpboot/menu.nfl

then I boot my client machine that has a MAC address that starts with 
00:13:20 and set its primary boot device to PXE. The machine boots, 
finds the dhcp server, downloads the .zpxe file, goes looking for the 
menu.nfl file, finds it and downloads it which presents me with a menu 
for loading memtest (lots of extra menu items omitted for ease of 
description). I select memtest by pressing 'Enter' and I get:

<snip>.....
Image checksum: 9f74 != computed checksum: 1ec9
<abort>


When I use mknbi-nfl instead of mkelf-nbi in the above recipe, I get:

Unexpected Interrupt - Halting

with what appears to be a dump of sorts below that. I'll gladly 
transcribe it by hand if you feel it will be useful.


When I put my etherboot 5.2.6 .zpxe files back into place, memtest loads 
fine so I'm fairly certain the files on the tftp server are not corrupt 
as the first error implies. Please let me know if you need any 
additional information or if I'm doing something terribly obviously wrong!

> Thanks,
> 
> Marty
> 
Thanks!  -Sam



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