Ghost a Dell Latitude 120L

[cooper]

Im sure this must have happened to someone here but search didnt find it..

 

Have a Dell Latitude 120L when i boot using network boot disks it dosnt pick up the network, on other laptops i have had to enable PXE but cant find this in the bios.

 

when i boot i get

 

broadcom PXE 2.10

 

and

 

intelbase PXE.2.1

 

When ghost starts to boot dos

 

PXE UNDI not availible

 

failed to initialize board

 

any help would be great as i havnt a clue what to do

 

Anyway its nearly 8!!!! so im off home

 

Cheers

 

Cooper

[Ric_]

Sometimes you need to go into the Integrated Devices section of the bios and change the option where it says that the onboard NIC is Enabled to Enabled with PXE (I have a load of GX260 desktops like this).

 

Another gotcha is that you sometimes have to reboot and re-enter the bios after this to enable PXE boot (I have some older Intel boards that are like this).

[cooper]

thanks ric will give it a go in the morning

 

Cooper

[cooper]

Still no joy with 2 Dells now.

 

Dell 120L

 

Onboard Devices

Intergrated NIC: Enabled

 

Get UNDI Not available

 

 

Dell D505

 

Boot Config

 

Lan Controller: Enabled

PXE BIS Policy: Accepted

 

Anyone know what i might be doning wrong using the same boot diskes on 5 differnet makes of computers with no problem.

 

If i burn the image to disk it will take 4 DVD's and one of the laptops only has a CD rom

 

Thanks for any advise given

 

Cooper

[Dos_Box]

Hmm. I have 25 120l's and RIS them quite happily. I've never encountered one that didn't. As Ric said though you will need to set the BIOS to enable a PXE boot.

I shall dig around one of mine for you to see if something is awry with your config.

[Martin]

cooper,

 

as Ric_ mentioned, have you fully enabled the NIC for PXE booting. DELLs usually have three settings for the NIC - e.g. "Yes" or "No" and "On w/ MBA" or "Disabled", "Enabled" and "Enabled with PXE".

 

You should then save the settings, re-enter the BIOS as the PC boots and set the boot order accordingly.

 

Good luck,

 

Martin

[cooper]

This is how the bios is set on both

 

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The 120L Bios has 8 groups

 

System

On board devices

Video

Security

Power managment

Maintenance

 

 

POST behavior

Wireless

 

 

The only group i can see i have to set is

 

On board devices:

 

Interated NIC

 

and set this to enable

 

I cant see PXE in the bios?

 

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In the old Latitude D505

 

The bios is version A06

 

1of7 pages

 

Page 3of 7

 

Under Boot Configuration

 

PXE BIS Policy: Accept

 

 

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