Dell Broadcom NetXtreme Family of Adapters User Manual
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Broadcom Boot Agent Driver Software: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM57XX User Guide
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The Red Hat Enterprise Linux has PXE Server support. It allows users to remotely perform a complete Linux installation over the network. The distribution
comes with the boot images boot kernel (vmlinuz) and initial ram disk (initrd), which are located on the Red Hat disk#1:
/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz
/images/pxeboot/initrd.img
Refer to the Red Hat documentation for instructions on how to install PXE Server on Linux.
The Initrd.img file distributed with Red Hat 8.0, however, does not have a Linux network driver for the Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet adapter.
This version requires drivers that are not part of the standard distribution. You can create a driver disk for the Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet adapter
from the image distributed with the driver source media. Refer to the Linux Readme.txt file for more information.
A remote boot does not require a standard Linux network driver for the Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet adapter. After the PXE client downloads the
Linux kernel and initial ram disk, the Linux universal driver that came with the Linux distribution binds with the UNDI code of the PXE to form a Linux network
driver.
DOS UNDI/Intel APITEST
To boot in DOS mode and connect to a network for the DOS environment, download the Intel PXE PDK from the Intel website. This PXE PDK comes with a
TFTP/ProxyDHCP/Boot server. The PXE PDK can be downloaded from Intel at
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