Povl H. Pedersen (pope@netguide.dk)
Fri, 2 Oct 1998 00:43:09 +0200 (MET DST)
Spent this evening getting net-boot to work.
My setup:
Portable PC with 3c589 ethernet and Linux
7200 with Linux PPC
ANS 700/200 (with PCI NE2000 clone (RealTek), 1 harddisk (Seagate) as
the IBM disk does not work. DOes not spin up, 80MB RAM).
My first problewm is, that using tcpd on the 7200 to supply bootp
did not work. OK, I went to a PC RedHat mirror, downloaded the SRPMS
(source package) og bootp server. Installed it. Still no luck.
OK, try the same on the PC, and all was OK. Hmmmm.....
bootptest -h 10.0.0.12
well, the 7200 running bootpd -d 4 shows that it gets the requests,
but it is not sending out any answers, or at least not to the right
address (do not have tcpdump on the PC, but will try to see what goes wrong).
So I end up having the PC handle bootp and tftp.
The ANS can get BOOTP address, and download installer.coff, BUT
I always gets a DEFAULT CATCH FFFF0030. This is with the exact same
installer.coff that works on floppy. (both before and after the
attempted netboot, without PRAM reset, just changing boot-device).
What is the secret for getting netbooting to work ? Or rather, the
secret that will remove the DEFAULT CATCH.
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