Hi ! The last days, I did download the netboot-packet again, kompiled a new kernel for the nic, made mknbi on it, and now it works. I don't know why, and I don't know what I did in a different way the last time (and I don't care about that any more ;-))) ). Thanks for your willing to me, all of you who re-mailed me. Now I'm working on the NFS. I read the NFS-ROOT-CLIENT mini-howto, but some skripts are on different places. I do have the SuSE 5.1. Could anybody, who has SuSE, too, mail me his client-dirs and the modified initskripts ? That would be a great help for me! The nic is hanging while the init although it has IMO all needed skripts/binaries. On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, Ken Yap wrote: > Hmm. I'm very puzzled. The only reasons I can think of now are: > > + You are running mknbi on a non-PC and mknbi has endian problems. But > I don't believe this. However you can check the format of the bootImage > against the spec, at least the first 512 bytes. > Nice imagination that I would have the money for an Alpha ... > + There is a problem with tftpd. You can try tftp to the server and > fetch the file and compare it with the original. > It was exactly the same. > + There is a problem with the bootrom code. If this is Etherboot, it is > always possible a bug exists and I would like to know about it. Sorry, > I forgot if you were using Netboot or Etherboot. Please send more details > about the exact messages printed out when netbooting. > It is netboot, and the only message was: ERROR: invalid haeder Okay, Thanks again. Martin
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