[THIN] Re: IBM x336 Boot disk
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- Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 11:18:33 +0100
Aborted the barts boot floppy attempt and added the network driver to
another boot floppy I used to use, and it worked! Don't know why barts
floppy didn't like the network driver.
On 5/24/05, Jennifer Hooper <jennifer.hooper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ah... This has been a serious pain in the pahtootey for us. If I remember
> correctly, we couldn't get it to detect the NIC or the extra PCI cards we
> put in them. We had to flash the BIOS of the system to the latest version
> off of IBM's website to get it to work correctly. And we had this problem
> with HS40s, x345's, and other platforms, so it's not an isolated problem.
>
> Try that and see if you can't get it to work. I wish I could send you the
> link, but I don't have it... I'll check with my jr. and see if he has the
> link still.
>
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Jen
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 8:30 AM
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> Subject: [THIN] IBM x336 Boot disk
>
> All,
>
> Has any of you been working on this server? I've just got my hands on one
> for our farm, and I'm having problems getting a boot disk detecting the
> network. I've always had great success with barts boot disk, so I went ahead
> and created the broadcom network driver cab for the nic, but its throwing
> out a "Error: 33 Unable to bind" error which I haven't been able to get
> past. Has anyone got a boot disk detecting the Nic cards on this machine?
> Maybe I should move past dos boot disks and onto PXE boot cds now.....
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
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