Re: where did I go wrong ???

["Arno Schuring" <aelschuring@hotmail.com>]

Is your client using the same processor as the box on which you created the
bzImage? If not, what processor type did you specify?
you probably do not need an nfs server, since you are using a root disk
image.

  np: Tori Amos - Winter
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Arbind Rajbhandary" <arbind@htp.com.np>
To: "netboot" <netboot@baghira.han.de>
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 10:48 AM
Subject: where did I go wrong ???


>
> I am trying to netboot my client from my linux Box server which has Redhat
8
> .While giving the command makerom i provide the followling information
>
>
> The PCI vendor ID for my client network card is 10ec and PCI device ID is
> 8139 .I entered command line packet driver:0X60 and minimum execution size
> in bytes :-1 and maximum execution size on bytes:-1 ( I hope i provided
> correct information till now).I downloaded the packet driver for the
network
> card and  provided the same packet driver for the makerom command .I then
> created bootrom floppy and tested the configuration of the floppy and got
> the same result as in documentation but my problem is after giving the
> command
> mknbi-linux -x -d ram -i rom -r init.gz -k bzImage -o bootImage.nbi
> and booting the client throught floppy..the client shows
> Blocksize 1432 Filesize 1389568 Timeout 15
> reads the block
> then give
> Starting images
> AND THEN IT REBOOTS THE CLIENT AGAIN
> the client RAM size is 64 MB
> can anybody help me why this is happening :(((
> do i need to setup NFS server too ...the documentation netboot HOW-TO
> document for Linux by Bill Dooley doesn't say anything about NFS server
> setup
> thank you very much for your help
> arbind
>
>
>
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