Enabling PXE from add-on cards

[Thomas Lange]

>>>>> On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:10:10 +0200, Carsten Aulbert <carsten.aulbert at aei.mpg.de> said:

    > We received two batches of machines recently and they now all have PCIe
    > x1 e1000e based Intel NICs as an add-on card.

    > However, I can only seem to get the BIOS to recognize some of these
    > cards although they look rather similar to each other, thus my questions:

    > * Apart from this, has anyone some link to a guideline for Intel based
    > NICs how to ensure that the cards are PXE capable as well as how to make
    > them recognized by the systems BIOS?
IMO all newer card should have PXE. With intel cards you can type
ctrl-s to enter the "bios" of the nic, where you can enable the PXE
feature. Some motherboard BIOSes do not show the netbooting option
(often called MBA UNDI), unless you have enabled the BOOT ROM feature
for the onboard network card. I do not know if this also applies for
add-on nics.

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regards Thomas