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From: ramani@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Ramani Duraiswami)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Naive questions on booting of ethernet
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Date: 24 May 91 21:51:29 GMT
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We have the following problem with our system (consisting of a MIPS RC3240 
server and a MIPS RS2030 workstation:

There was some power glitch and both systems went down, and refused to come 
back up.

The server has a tape-drive (built in), and after much struggling we were 
able to reboot off backup tapes.

However the workstation (without a tape drive) does not come back up. We 
were told (by MIPS service) that we could boot off the server using the 
ethernet connection. Unfortunately we have not been able to get the damn 
thing going. 

Request to kind souls out there:
1) can you please e-mail/post the procedure for booting off ethernet ?

    since the server went down too, we are apprehensive that the ethernet 
set-up might be screwed too. so, if possible, please tell me how the 
server should be set up too.

Thanking you in anticipation,

Ramani Duraiswami