Re: Installing Potato with tftp on UDB
Hi,
Try setting your ewa_protocols to BOOTP in SRM.
Peter
Bart-Jan Vrielink wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I finally found some time to try to re-install Linux on my Multia. Today I
> tried to use tftp/bootp to boot the Potato tftpboot.img.
> The server is running Potato/i386.
>
> I have dhcpd installed (already use it to serve a few dhcp clients) and
> did a apt-get install tftpd. I have added 'allow bootp' to the subnet and
> host part of my dhcpd.conf:
> subnet 10.2.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
> allow bootp;
> host centauri {
> hardware ethernet 08:00:2b:e4:41:27;
> option domain-name "vrielink.net";
> fixed-address centauri.vrielink.net;
> allow bootp;
> }
> }
>
> and restarted dhcpd.
> I have enabled tftpd in inetd.conf and restarted inetd. tftpboot.img is
> placed in /boot but because the installation manual is a bit vague on
> choosing the correct name for the image I decided to test the bootp part
> and issued the boot command:
> >>>boot ewa0
> (boot ewa0.0.0.8.0 -flags 0)
>
> Trying MOP boot.
> .Switching network ewa0.0.0.8.0 from Thin Wire to Twisted Pair...
> .......bootstrap failure
> Retrying...
>
> and so on. On the server I see the following a few times in tcpdump:
> 20:58:09.378421 centauri ab:0:0:1:0:0 mopdl 79:
> 3f00 0849 0102 0000 0100 0304 0000 0200
> 0279 0003 0006 0000 0000 0000 0400 023c
> 0005 0002 4000 0600 0200 0207 0006 0800
> 2be4 4127 6400 0149 9001 0101 9101 02da
> 05
> There is no reply from the server and I'm certain that there is no other
> bootp/dhcp server available on my network.
>
> What goes wrong ?? and if I get past this point: how should I name the
> tfpboot.img ??
>
> --
> Tot ziens,
>
> Bart-Jan
>
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