Re: Problems running kernel

[Marcel.Andre.Beltz@Student.Uni-Augsburg.DE]

Hi,
i don`t know your exactly problem, but my computer display messages
similar like yours. I try a script from www.luga.de/~flierl/diskless_suse
and change it for my configuration. maybe you should also try it.


Marcel Beltz


On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, 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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