Re: Problems with netboot 0.7.2

[mike rushford <rushford@wenet.net>]

Hi;

I have just started with netboot-0.7.2 and have seen the dots you refer to.

I have found two things wrong.

First I tried pressing esc key on the diskless machine and this prompts me for
another attempt to
boot via the net. If this does not work then I needed to restart portmap, mountd
and nfsd
and then the
netboot works the very first time. If I shutdown the diskless machine while
processes are running then this
seems to trigger this phenomena of dots during booting the diskless box. I think
it worked ok if I
stooped all processes and then rebooted the diskless box.

Hope there is some clue for tour situation. Please let me know more if you learn
something more
discreet.

Thanks

Richard Gooch wrote:

>   Hi, all. I'm trying to set up a machine to boot Linux over the
> network, so I've downloaded netboot 0.7.2. Unfortunately, the bootp
> client does not seem to get an answer, and just prints dots. I know
> that my bootp server is working OK, because I have another bootp ROM
> (from Bootware, a commercial product) which *does* manage to receive a
> bootp reply and load a boot image using tftp. One reason for using
> netboot is that the Bootware ROM I have does not support images over
> around 450 kBytes. My Linux bootImage is 1.7 MBytes.
>
> I turned on debugging for the packet driver in the bootp client and I
> get the following:
>
> S 0000C0853DEE 45 00 01 48 00 ** 00 00 ff 11 * * 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff 00 44
>
> where "*" changes every second. The network card is an SMC and I
> have checked the I/O address, IRQ and MEM address.
>
> When I set the debugging level for bootpd on my server to 9, I get:
>
> in.bootpd[17621]: connect from 0.0.0.0
> in.bootpd[17621]: version 2.4.0
> in.bootpd[17621]: bootptab mtime: Wed Sep 10 18:31:04 1997
> in.bootpd[17621]: reading "/etc/bootptab"
> in.bootpd[17621]: read 2 entries (1 hosts) from "/etc/bootptab"
> in.bootpd[17621]: recvd pkt from IP addr 0.0.0.0
> in.bootpd[17621]: bootptab mtime: Wed Sep 10 18:31:04 1997
> in.bootpd[17621]: request from Ethernet address 00:00:C0:85:3D:EE
> in.bootpd[17621]: found 130.155.196.205 (bcc05)
> in.bootpd[17621]: bootfile="//bcc.bw"
> in.bootpd[17621]: vendor magic field is 99.130.83.99
> in.bootpd[17621]: sending reply (with RFC1048 options)
> in.bootpd[17621]: setarp 130.155.196.205 - 00:00:C0:85:3D:EE
>
> The bootpd server is running Linux 2.0.30.
>
>                                 Regards,
>
>                                         Richard....



--
Mike
rushford@wenet.net
http://www.hooked.net/~tvs/eyes/
http://www.hooked.net/~tvs/members/mike_rushford.gif