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Re: Bug#140399: marked as done (boot-floppies: [i386] tftpboot.img fails to boot)



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Adam Di Carlo wrote:
| owner@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) writes:
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|>tftpboot.img was not extended for MBA. Please add this to the
|>instalation doku.
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| I'd be glad to, but what the hell is MBA, aside from masters in
| business administration?

MBA is 3Com's Managed PC Boot Agent.
Thze Images you provie in the boot-floppies are for Etherboot Agents.
Some 3Com nics have a buildt in boot agent. this is 3Com's proprietary
MBA. So if you wanna boot a tftp-image on a 3Com nic you need to extend
the image to be make it bootable for the 3Com MBA. The LTSP (Linux
Terminal Server Project) provides a simple linux utility to convert
etherboot-images to mba-images.
Have a look at the pages from the the LTSP. They discribe the problem on
their page: http://www.ltsp.org/documentation/LTSP-MBA.htm

Michael
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