Thanks for your reply. It hadn't occurred to me this might just as well be a server problem, so thank you for pointing this out. Will try to find out more soon. slightly off-topic: Using a stripped-down kernel, I have managed to remote boot my machine. However, I can't login because of "Out of memory - killed process login". Executing sulogin results in the same. When I boot init=/bin/sh, everything works fine, except when I try to run 'login' or 'passwd <user>' - it results again in the out of memory message. Can anyone tell me where is the right place to ask such a question (I'm using shadow-4.0)? > > How about a different network card? What type if TFTP server do you use? > Does the server print anything in the logs? You should also check the > TFTP traffic using tcpdump or ethereal. Does the client send out a request > for block 1038, but doesn't get a response from the server? tftp server? uhm... don't know. Have just compiled the one from gnu inetutils-1.4.2, and the result is the same. About a different card: the only ones I have directly available are Cabletron E21xx cards, for which I haven't created a succesful bootrom(floppy) yet. Will try to get a 3com card for further testing. The server logs only the request and filename: Mar 14 23:45:56 neminis tftpd[2848]: in.tftpd[2847]: connect from 192.168.10.70 Mar 14 23:45:56 neminis tftpd[2848]: tftpd: trying to get file: /tftpboot/vmlinux-i486 tcpdump might reveal more, though I haven't much experience with it. Thanks, Arno np: Capercaillie - The Tree =========================================================================== This Mail was sent to netboot mailing list by: "Arno Schuring" <aelschuring@hotmail.com> To get help about this list, send a mail with 'help' as the only string in it's body to majordomo@baghira.han.de. If you have problems with this list, send a mail to netboot-owner@baghira.han.de.
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