Re: diskless node reboots after tftp download

[Bob Edwards <Robert.Edwards@anu.edu.au>]

Matthijs van Leeuwen wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to set up a diskless node with an ATI
> AT-2000U NE2000 ISA NIC. I've created a bootrom
> and put it on floppy to boot the diskless node
> from. All goes well, including download of the
> Linux kernel, but as soon as tftp has finished
> downloading, the node reboots.
> 
> Any suggestion how to solve this problem much
> appreciated!
> 
> Cheers,
> Matthijs

I had a very similar problem yesterday. BOOTP worked, then TFTP, then I
got the netboot startup banner, then a weird message about how BOOTP
response was too big. Then it immediately rebooted and started all
over again.

Turned out that I left out the gateway field in /etc/bootptab file and
this was screwing netboot somehow. I'll get in and have a look at netboot
later to find out why this happens.

Maybe this is your problem?

The only other suggestion I have is that maybe you forgot to use mknbi-linux
to "wrap" your kernel image into a NBI (network boot image).

Cheers,

Bob Edwards.
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