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 > > -- > Email: coa97mgb@sheffield.ac.uk > Mobile: (07712) 912866 > =========================================================================== > This Mail was sent to netboot mailing list by: > "Mark Broadbent" <COA97MGB@sheffield.ac.uk> > To get help about this list, send a mail with 'help' as the only string in > it's body to majordomo@baghira.han.de. If you have problems with this list, > send a mail to netboot-owner@baghira.han.de. =========================================================================== This Mail was sent to netboot mailing list by: Andrea Michelotti <michelo@apemaia.roma1.infn.it> To get help about this list, send a mail with 'help' as the only string in it's body to majordomo@baghira.han.de. If you have problems with this list, send a mail to netboot-owner@baghira.han.de.
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