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Re: Etherboot floppy trashes GX150 EEPROM!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Sat Mar 23 17:44:28 2002
Message-Id: <200203232244.RAA10175@bearing-an-hourglass.mit.edu>
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
cc: owls@MIT.EDU, release-team@MIT.EDU, kcr@MIT.EDU, tb@MIT.EDU,
linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 23 Mar 2002 01:41:31 GMT."
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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 17:44:22 -0500
> Current Implications:
>
> If you use the floppy to install a dual boot Windows Athena system,
> it will trash the PXE boot ability.
>
> The EEPROM fix we sent out to the clusters will quit working as soon
> as a system is reinstalled.
It's worth noting that re-installing the machine will (after Monday)
install athena-ws-9.0-25, which should re-run vortex-diag if needed.
I don't know if this will affect the PXE issue, but it should at least
keep the network operating at a reasonable speed if they are running
linux.
Jonathon
