Booting until "TFTP: Too many Packages"

[Bernd Stahlbock <stahlbock@basysprint.de>]

Hello all,

I'm trying to get a embedded PC board with Intel PXE-2.0 Lan Boot Rom
booting. It should run Linux and the Host PC is WinNT Workstation. As
Bootp/DHCP Server I use HeHa's DHCP Server (www.heha.cjb.net). (Is
there any free bootp Server, that is working with this PXE-2.0 Bios? I
tried one or two, but couldn't get them working).
At first, it looks fine, the client gets it's IP and a boot file name,
but then after a very short TFTP transmission, the Message "TFTP too
many packages" occure. Is there a limitation in the Boot file size? My
bootfile is a Linux Kernel 2.0.36 mknbi-ed together with a
initrd-ramdisk image, which normaly runs from a IDE flash disk by
lilo. In the ramdisk is my complete Linux system so that the size of
the file is about 3.7 MB. I tried some smaller files and it looks like
that the files have to be smaller than 500kb, what is the reason for
that?

I heard about another way of booting the system image through a
bootstrap method, can you tell me a HowTo, in case my own solution
with the 3.7MB file will not work?


Best regards

Bernd Stahlbock
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stahlbock@basysprint.de, http://www.basysprint.de
basysPrint GmbH, Guelzer Str. 15, 19258 Boizenburg, Germany
Tel.: ++49-38847-99-163, Fax:++49-38847-99-192


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