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Re: Vostro 320 report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Wed Jan 5 12:24:20 2011
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 12:24:12 -0500
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To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
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> PXE is supported (enabled as "Ethernet Boot ROM" in the BIOS), but I could not get it to work even after repeated attempts. I'm tempted to blame the poor state of PXE in general, but I'll do some more digging later. At the moment, PXE only seems to work when connected through a hub with at least one other machine connected to the hub (yes, really). A gPXE CD and USB stick worked fine.
OK, after disconnecting all machines on my desk from MITnet for 30 min and then plugging the Vostro back in, it worked on the 1st try. So I'm going to blame this on our bizzare switches which really don't like you moving machines from port to port.
-Jon
