Re: System reboot after retrieving linux kernel

[Thomas Huber <judas@rz.fh-augsburg.de>]

Hi Roland,


> The server answers the bootp request and after that the diskless machine
> starts downloading the kernel. When finished downloading the kernel the
> diskless machine reboots thus the result is a loop of starting etherboot
> getting kernel and rebooting.

Did you create the kernelimage correctly ?

You should compile to bzImage and than apply the mknbi -command to it:

mknbi -d rom -i rom -k bzImage -o bootImage

bye

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