Re: BOOTP record too large!

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

Nelson Ferreira Junior wrote:
> 
>    I´m trying to boot a diskless computer from a
> RedHat 5 server. BOOTP and TFTP works fine...  after
> loading the kernel image, it shows a starting message
> from Netboot, and then the fatal one "BOOTP record too
> large".
>    After that, the diskless computer starts to load
> everything again. I read a message in the list where
> somebody had the same trouble...  one said to check
> the gateway option in /etc/bootptab - this is ok in my
> server!
> 

That tip was from me. I had exactly the same problem you report on
one setup where I left out the gateway and one other bootptab option
(I can't remember which one, now). I added them into bootptab on the
off-chance that it would fix my problem, and voila! the kernel and
the compressed RAM disk loaded and ran with no problems.

I can tell you that this message appears to be coming from the NBI
"wrapper" that is added to the kernel etc. by the mknbi-linux code.
The source for it is in netboot-0.8.1/mknbi-linux/first.S and other
associated files. You might like to look in there to see what else
can cause this message.

Cheers,

Bob Edwards.
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