Re: dec multia

[Cormac McGuinness <cormac@physics.bu.edu>]

Hi,
I'll just add my $.02  like the other poster I got my Multia to boot
completely off NFS with no disks at all. However I found that I had to
make sure to both set up the bootpd server on the machine that was delivering the
"abooted" kernel image and also a dhcpd server, that I only had replying to the
hardware MAC address of the Multia.

I hope that helps....

By any chance would you know how to get a Multia to boot from SRM with an IDE disk ?
I can't even manage to do that from the ARC console where you're supposed to be able to.

Yours

Cormac

On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 06:45:30PM -0700, Dave Musser wrote:
> Can anyone help me with this problem?
> 
> I have a DEC Multia - 166 with NO floppy but a 4.1 GB scsi hdd
> 
> 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)
> 
> I have also tried to put the root image on the scsi hard drive with the kernel ... the drive fdisked and formatted in the following two configurations
> 
> p1 - 128 MB - linux swap
> p2 - 1 GB - ext2
> p3 - 2.5 GB - ext2
> p4 - 800 MB - ext2
> 
> p1 - 1GB  - ext2
> p2 - 2.5 GB - ext2
> p3 - 800 MB - ext2
> p4 - 128 MB - linux swap
> 
> in both configurations I get the message (SRM) that the first block is invalid
> 
> Help?
> 
> LinuxWolfe
> dmusser@donet.com

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