From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 15:05:02 +0000 From: Michael Joosten Message-ID: <39A3E766.2781@c-lab.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <200008170142.VAA01791@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] hang when booting from the orig boot floppy Topicbox-Message-UUID: ff214794-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Russ Cox wrote: > > Try removing the ether0= line. > What sort of Etherlink III is it? > BTW, the same (or a very similar situation) happened to me also with a 3C509 when I changed computers. As it turned out, the PnP stuff was still enabled on the NIC. Using the 3COM setup diskettes (pnpdisable.bat or such) cured this and I could again boot from disk. Might be added as hint to the FAQ or install docs. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | Michael Joosten | Tel. : +49 5251 606127 | | C-LAB | Fax : +49 5251 606065 | | Fuerstenalle 11 | E-Mail: joost@c-lab.de | | 33094 Paderborn | C-LAB is a cooperation between | | Germany | University Paderborn & SIEMENS AG | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~