Re: 5.0 restorecd

[Justin Maynard <justin%omatic.net@localhost>]

Anthony

Quick question on netbooting the 2700.  Mine isn't netbooting when I  
hold down the left and right buttons and power up it goes through the  
disk check and then just displays an underscore on the screen "_" .

I'm wondering does yours say "Netbooting" on the lcd even when it's  
trying and failing to netboot.

I've read in some random posts online that some 2700's are missing the  
netboot code.

Thanks

On 27/05/2009, at 10:17 PM, Anthony Howe wrote:

> Just wanted to say that the 5.0 restorecd works like a charm on a  
> Cobalt
> Qube 2700. Took me some time to get the Qube to netboot, because the
> RestoreCD doesn't always set up the network cards in the bootserver
> properly, so you have to dive into the command line and play about  
> with
> ifconfig.
>
> Question: what is the default configuration for the GENERIC Cobalt
> kernel? I want to try and get a USB or WiFi card to work in the older
> PCI slot.
>
> It detects the USB chips, but doesn't configure them, so I'm assuming
> the kernel drivers are missing.
>
> Anthony