Netboot

Hardware MikroTik hardware general
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Hello

I am tring to use netinstall and also upgrade the bioson rb100

I set the rb to boot from ether but no matter how hard I try the board will not get an IP address.

Is there a trick to this?

Seems simple but did not work

Thanks

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Works - I do it a lot. Instructions are somewhat clear. :slight_smile:

Cable direct to RB from PC?
IP in netinstall same subnet as PC?

3

Yea, thats what I thought easy

I have done that but it just hangs when its trying to get an IP address.

Can is fine, I can winbox into it if it boots from nand

I have the serial console open, don’t think that would make a difference

set to boot from ether and bootp (also tried dhcp) it wont get an IP address.


I just read the changelog, its said something about fix to make etherboot work reliably, perhaps thats related?

Thanks

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  1. Make sure that you have downloaded correct version of Netinstall.
    There are two different netinstall, one for RB100/500 and second for other routers supporting EtherBOOT.

  2. Check that you have correct Netinstall configuration,
    http://www.mikrotik.com/testdocs/ros/2.9/guide/netinstall.php?permalink=0.39660056657223797

5

Thanks

Yes I have teh correct one, thanks for the link tho

I’ll try on a different PC

Thanks

6

Just a thought - If I run netinstall on a notebook with two interfaces, it won’t work. I need to disable the active wireless card then the eth port seems to get noticed.

7

That could be it, this pc has 2 nics

8

fixed and really working, you need second launch of netboot after reboot windows 7
First pass: follow instruction to use netboot (result - MAC address is absent)
Second pass: reboot Windows 7 and start netboot again (result - MAC address is present )

enjoy