Re: diskless node reboots after tftp download

[Matthijs van Leeuwen <m.vanleeuwen@ic.ac.uk>]

Bob Edwards wrote:
> 
> 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.

I don't get any error messages. I just see a counter increasing while (I presume)
tftp downloads the kernel. Then the counting stops and the machine reboots.

> 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.

I've got a gateway field in /etc/bootptab

> 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).

Did that too.

Cheers,
Matthijs

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