Dave Musser wrote: > I have tried to netboot it ... using the debian instructions and many other instructions .. in every case I get a message in the bootp server message log that the client is being ignored (bootpd starts .. but the system asking for packets is ignored) > in both configurations I get the message (SRM) that the first block is invalid I have a Multia that I have sucessfully netbooted (it had no disks at all at the time, even its root FS was over NFS) through SRM. You'll need to get a good kernel (which you sound like you have), but pre-pend the aboot netloader onto it. I've attached a gzipped version I built a while ago to this message (it's small). You will have to gunzip this loader before you cat it together with your kernel (which can be compressed if you want). There is also a 512 byte file to pad out the end of the kernel, which I've always added when I made my net kernels, but I'm not sure it's needed (the aboot docs say it is). Anyway, save the two attached files (net_aboot.nh.gz and net_pad.gz), gunzip them, and do something like the following: cat net_aboot.nh <yourkernelimagehere> net_pad > boot_image Then configure SRM to look for "boot_image" over TFTP/BOOTP/whatever. This configuration has worked well for me with 2.0, 2.2, and 2.3 kernels. -- Shaw Terwilliger
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