r8169 PXE boot problems

[Shawn Tayler]

On Friday 04 April 2008 20:21:19 David A. Bandel wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I have 18 PXE clients.  16 of them (with various ethernet cards) boot
> from a central server just fine.  Two have the Realtek 8169 cards (not
> my choice, built into the motherboard) that won't boot.  They start to
> boot, then after the kernel takes over they go eth0 down and stop.
>
> Google suggests I'm not the only one with this problem, but I didn't
> find a clear solution.
>
> I'm open to suggestions for how I might get past this snag.
>
> TIA,
>
> David A. Bandel

Hello David,

This seems to smack of the need for an initrd or am I totally missing it?

Shawn