Environment
Network connectivity with DOS boot disk
Situation
The following utility is often used to make network boot disks
for Servers:
There have been some reported issues and fixes on this utility
and that information is being listed below.
Resolution
1) Issue with DELL GX110 machines
Dell GX110. This method will work providing the internal NIC
is not sharing the IRQ with USB adapter (eg. I put internal NIC on
10 by itself and changed other items on 10 to 11). Now DHCP and
static IP will bind/operate correctly with internal NIC.
2) For IP only in multi-segment Cisco network it is advisable
to add SLP to NETWARE PROTOCOL line as well as an appropriately
configured SRVLOC section in the Net.cfg file
3) IF solution 1 does not work above you on some Dell
GX110 with integrated 3C905C NIC on motherboard.
It will work if internal NIC is disabled and regular 3C905B-TX
PCI NIC is added.
The problem is either internal NIC or TCPIP.NLM version 1.02
related, neither static or DHCP provided IP (the latter was
sniffed, Discover went out, Offer was returned, nothing else
happened) will bind to internal NIC.