Quote Originally Posted by Harry Kuhman
One fix is to use a boot manager to boot the CD; I've done this on old systems that didn't even have the CD listed as a bootable device in the BIOS. Works good.

I can suggest two choices, but the FAQ that I keep referring to gives them also, so I guess there is no point in duplicating that information here. I think this would be a far better way to get things going than to try to get PXE and a PXE server working.
You're right; that's easier. Unfortunately, I tried smart boot and still couldn't get it to boot off the CD. The CD was detected as hdc (I think), which isn't quite what the docs indicated would happen. I got a disk error when I tried to boot it. The atapi controller seems to use 2 pairs of ports; I tried each pair in turn (setting it explcitly), but no luck.

I have got a diskette that does PXE booting on the machine; I still need to figure out what files to hand to it from the server to finish that boot.