bootfloppy for strange ethernet

[Mark Hedges]

My mistake; I didn't read fai-kernel README.  I need to build
new kernel images.  I will try with kernel 2.4.19.

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On 5 Sep 2002, Eric Mumpower wrote:

> Date: 05 Sep 2002 08:21:26 -0400
> From: Eric Mumpower <nocturne at permabit.com>
> To: linux-fai at uni-koeln.de, fai at informatik.uni-koeln.de
> Subject: Re: bootfloppy for strange ethernet
>
> I'm attempting to get FAI working with the e1000 network-driver module.
>
> The documentation for this driver clearly state that it is not supposed to
> be statically linkable into the kernel. Thus, I have prepared an initrd
> floppy, which correctly boots my kernel and insmods the e1000 module, but
> then which doesn't seem to autoconfigure the e1000 device.
>
> Can anyone suggest any method for causing the device to obtain information
> from bootp/dhcp? Yes, my kernel is being passed the command-line args
> ip=bootp, but this seems to only affect statically linked drivers, and not
> modules.
>