Author: Mat Grove Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: [Hampshire] PXE booting problem
Hi guys,
We are having trouble with PXE booting our servers that are running
Debian Squeeze/Sid. The servers have AMD Opteron 1218 on a supermicro
H8SMU motherboard using the nVidia MCP55 Pro chipset. Debian
Squeeze/Sid is fully up to date on these machines.
The problem we are running into is that after Squeeze/Sid has been
installed, on reboots of the machine, the nVidia PXE bootloader fails to
start, giving the error message: "PXE-E61: Media test failure check cable".
Going into the BIOS screen on boot and clearing the NVRAM or changing a
setting and saving will correct the problem for the next boot. However,
on a subsequent reboot the same error occurs. Also, rebooting after the
PXE failure at the GRUB screen will also cause PXE booting to happen
normally until Debian Squeeze/Sid fully boots up.
The netbooting error does not occur with Debian 4.0, Debian 5.0, nor
many other linux distributions.
Anyone got any ideas how to make this work? We are raising it as a bug
but in the mean time any work around would be handy.
