Hardware Issue

[Eric "Shubes"]

Darrin Chandler wrote:
> On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 07:46:02AM -0700, Jim wrote:
>> The messages, as they appear are:
>>
>> Managed PC Boot Agent (MBA) v3.20
>> Supported NIC: 3Com 3C90XB / 3C90XC EtherLink PCI
>> (C) Copyright 1998 Lanworks Technologies Co. a subsidiary of 3Com Corp
>> All rights reserved.
>>
>> Versions:
>> Loader: v2.30
>> Bootware:v1.11
>> Config: v1.12
>> PXE: v1.10 (v0.99j)
>> UNDI: v1.40
>> PCI vendor device 10B7:9200
>> Bootware type 109 (6Dh)
>> Settings: 0001142A
>> Capabilities:FFFFFFFF
>> Defaults: 0001142
>> EEPROM: FFFFFFFF
>>
>> Please reboot your system
>>
>> End of boot msgs
>>
>> For obvious reasons, I cannot do a dmsg.  At this point, my only option
>> is to reboot, which results in the same msg screen appearing.  Talk
>> abouut Catch 22.
> 
> That's nothing I've seen before. It looks like the "Managed PC" stuff
> sees the NIC fine. I'd guess that it would add it to its config and it
> should work after reboot. Apparently that's not happening. Is there any
> opportunity to enter into a config section before the reboot message?
> Anyone else out there familiar with this at all?
> 
Looks to me like it's trying to do a network boot. Change the boot order 
in your bios setup to boot from HDD first (or before network).

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-Eric 'shubes'
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