[Bug 487826] Re: Etherboot floppy boot terminal appears to load image and failed with 'Issuing RESET:' on 9.10

[Martin-Éric Racine]

As pointed out earlier, both mkelfimage and mknbi have become broken
over time. The only clean solution left for older clients that don't
support PXE is wraplinux. Making wraplinux bootstrap an iPXE blob should
work for BIOS-based clients, but not for e.g. Coreboot-based clients.

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Title:
  Etherboot floppy boot terminal appears to load image and failed with
  'Issuing RESET:' on 9.10

Status in Linux Terminal Server Project:
  New
Status in “ltsp” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “mkelfimage” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “mknbi” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  When booting older terminals using Etherboot 5.4.x boot floppies, the
  image appears to load with all of the dots streaming across the screen
  and 'done' is displayed at the end.

  Immediately thereafter 'Issuing RESET:' appears on the screen and
  booting stops.

  Running Fresh install of Ubuntu 9.10

  Other terminals such as DisklessWorkstations T1420 and same terminal
  using gPXE0.9.9  boot to login screen just fine.

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