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Re: tftp kernel retrieval failure




>hey,
>
>  i am trying to set up a system using lui/etherboot.
>My client successfully boots from the floppy, loads the nic driver (a
>lance card), obtains it's ip via bootp from the server and proceeds to
>obtain the kernel image (/tftpboot/vmlinuz which is the tagged kernel
>included with the latest lui package).  Due to the location of the
>failure i felt my problem was more relevant to this list than the lui
>list.

Repeated fetch of the tagged image by the boot ROM may indicate that the
image is not really tagged but a raw image, as the name suggests. Are
you SURE it is tagged? You could try running disnbi on it to see what it
thinks.
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