xseries 440 with 4LX, 4LM controllers & Ghost

[Puriri]

I have a couple of x440 machines with standard Broadcom NIC and additional Intel Pro 1000 NICs.

Machine BIOS Ver 1.6, 4L Array Ver 5.10.21
Ghost Enterprise 7.5
NDIS Versions:
Broadcom b57.dos v1.19
Intel Pro 1000 e1000.dos dated 03/04/2002

Problem:
The broadcom NIC throws machine code to the screen after loading netbind (unfortunately I'm not currently able to read this).

The PRO 1000s appear to initialise OK but ghost doesn't find a local multicast server even when the IP address is specified. So close dammit!

I've read previous discussion in this forum regarding the x345 and ghost and have tried boot disk initiation settings as follows:
Win 98 OS
Config.sys:

device=himem.sys
device=emm386.exe noems i=b000-b7ff
dos=high,umb
files=100
buffers=30
DEVICEhigh=\net\protman.dos /I:\net
DEVICEhigh=\net\dis_pkt.dos
DEVICEhigh=\net\E100B.dos
lastdrive=z

autoexec.bat:

smartdrv.exe /x
@echo off
\net\netbind.com
ghost

Have not had any problem with some x335 servers using the onboard Broadcom NICs for the same project but these x440 machines are driving me nuts.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers - The Moth

 

[Loewenhaupt]

Try to force the Linespeed to 100 Mbit Halfduplex.
You can find the parameters how to configure this in the original DOS Protocol.ini, which is included in the downloaded DOS device driver.

We got the same problems, until I decrease the linespeed to 100 Halfduplex. You can set it slower (10 Half or Fullduplex) but Ghost 7.5 seems not to be able to work with a higher Speed.
(Or I didn't find the way)

 

[hondahawkrider]

I had a similiar issue with the e1000 - Intel Pro Nic Card in DELL GX270 - I had to use a network boot disk via tcp/ip and map to a network resource... Here is what I have

It was created using the Symantec Ghost Boot Wizard from 7.5 (via MS_DOS - not IBM-DOS) - and modified it to use the correct Dos drivers and changed it to use TCP/IP instead of Netbeui

Here is the config.sys

DEVICEHIGH=HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=EMM386.EXE noems i=b000-b7ff
DOS=HIGH,UMB
files=100
buffers=30
DEVICEhigh=\net\protman.dos /I:\net
rem DEVICEhigh=\net\dis_pkt.dos
DEVICEhigh=\net\E1000.dos
DEVICEhigh=\net\nemm.dos
DEVICEhigh=\net\tcpdrv.dos
lastdrive=z
DEVICEHIGH=A:\ifshlp.sys

Here is the Autoexec.bat

@ECHO OFF
SET PATH=a:\net;a:\;
cd \net
a:\net\net initialize
a:\net\netbind.com
a:\net\umb.com
a:\net\tcptsr.exe
a:\net\tinyrfc.exe
a:\net\nmtsr.exe
a:\net\emsbfr.exe
a:\net\net start
A:\NET\NET.EXE USE Y: \\images\ghost (use your Server Name and Share - where the ghost.exe is share out as network resource)
A:\NET\NET.EXE USE x:\\images\files (your path here as well)



Here is the protocol.ini

[network.setup]
version=0x3100
netcard=NIC,1,NIC,1
transport=tcpip,TCPIP
lana0=NIC,1,tcpip

[NIC]
drivername=E1000$

;INTERRUPT=3
;IOBASE=0x300
;SlotNumber=1

[protman]
drivername=PROTMAN$
PRIORITY=NDISHLP

[ndishlp]
drivername=ndishlp$
BINDINGS=NIC
LANABASE=0

[tcpip]
NBSessions=6
DefaultGateway0=
SubNetMask0=
IPAddress0=
DisableDHCP=0
DriverName=TCPIP$
BINDINGS=NIC
LANABASE=0


here is the system.ini

[network]
filesharing=no
printsharing=no
autologon=yes
computername=gx270t2 (rename as you see fit)
lanroot=a:\net
username=XXXX (your username here)
workgroup=XXXX (your domain here)
reconnect=no
dospophotkey=N
lmlogon=0
logondomain=XXXX (your doman here)
prefferedredir=full
autostart=full
maxconnections=8

[network drivers]
netcard=E1000.DOS
transport=tcpdrv.dos,nemm.dos
devdir=a:\net
LoadRMDrivers=yes

[Password Lists]
*Shares=a:\net\Shares.PWL

Here is a list of all the files

Directory of A:
05/11/1998 08:01 PM 222,390 IO.SYS
06/29/1998 03:12 PM 9 MSDOS.SYS
05/11/1998 08:01 PM 93,880 COMMAND.COM
11/30/2001 09:19 AM 37,681 MOUSE.COM
10/13/1996 01:38 PM 29,136 HIMEM.SYS
10/13/2003 03:17 PM 233 AUTOEXEC.BAT
10/13/2003 03:43 PM 286 CONFIG.SYS
10/08/2003 04:58 PM

NET
08/31/1994 12:00 AM 4,644 IFSHLP.SYS
10/13/1996 01:38 PM 120,926 EMM386.EXE
9 File(s) 509,185 bytes

Directory of A:\NET

10/08/2003 04:58 PM

.
10/08/2003 04:58 PM
..
08/08/2003 10:28 AM 50,624 E1000.DOS
08/31/1994 12:00 AM 4,294 EMSBFR.EXE
08/31/1994 07:36 PM 817 LMHOSTS
08/31/1994 12:00 AM 2,619 NEMM.DOS
02/07/1995 12:40 PM 450,326 NET.EXE
03/03/1995 07:11 PM 76,234 NET.MSG
08/31/1994 12:00 AM 8,513 NETBIND.COM
03/03/1995 07:12 PM 123,066 NETH.MSG
08/31/1994 06:52 PM 395 NETWORKS
08/31/1994 12:00 AM 22,826 NMTSR.EXE
08/31/1994 12:00 AM 21,940 PROTMAN.DOS
08/31/1994 12:00 AM 13,782 PROTMAN.EXE
08/31/1994 06:52 PM 795 PROTOCOL
08/31/1994 12:00 AM 4,174 TCPDRV.DOS
08/31/1994 12:00 AM 71,040 TCPTSR.EXE
08/31/1994 12:00 AM 233 TCPUTILS.INI
12/01/1994 07:39 PM 37,024 TINYRFC.EXE
08/31/1994 12:00 AM 3,325 UMB.COM
10/13/1996 01:38 PM 840 WFWSYS.CFG
10/08/2003 05:00 PM 412 PROTOCOL.INI
10/13/2003 02:16 PM 622 SHARES.PWL
10/13/2003 02:16 PM 396 SYSTEM.INI
10/13/2003 03:45 PM 0 CONNECT.DAT
23 File(s) 894,297 bytes

Total Files Listed:
32 File(s) 1,403,482 bytes
3 Dir(s) 45,056 bytes free

The only issue is that when running the ghost.exe - y:\ghost.exe (y is mapped to \\images\ghost) - You must use Ghost.exe -FNI to keep if from freezing (see

http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=oplex_network&message.id=3371&page=8)

for more info ... If anyone needs a copy - email me at jip98@acs.org and I will send the files