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Re: Problems running kernel




Mark Broadbent wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am having a a problem with remote booting a computer over a LAN
> using the netboot package.  I am not sure whether the problem is
> with me, the network or something else but I hope that you could
> help me.
>
> I have v0.8.1 of net boot installed on my master linux machine which
> runs bootpd and tftpd (latest versions), the kernel I have tried is
> v2.2.5 and v2.2.12 which has been made netbootable using the
> mknbi-linux utility.
> When I try to remote boot my slave computer from a floppy created
> using 'make bootrom', the bootp request is serviced sucessfully and
> the net bootable kernel downloaded using tftp.  When the attempt to
> start the kernel is made it either reboots the machine, shows an
> error about premature end of file or another errors such as 'bad
> gzip magic number'.  Generally it's not consistent.
>
> If anyone has had this or a similar problem, I would be most grateful
> if you could help me solve it.
>
> Thanks
> Mark Broadbent
>
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