Re: netbooting alphastation 500 with current debian
On 2002.10.15 01:14 alex avriette wrote:
after spending the better part of a day reading up on the various
netbsd, openbsd, and linux instructions for netbooting an alphasation
500, i have finally gotten the alpha to boot with the image from
debian.org (im sorry, offhand I dont have its URL).
[...]
i'm real excited in that i've got bootp and tftp working to the degree
the alpha will load an image. anyone care to speculate on how to build
an image it will like?
I don't have much solid information, but I did want to mention that I was
able to boot an AlphaStation 500/500 via bootp last summer (August 2001).
This was with the then-current woody installer, then called testing.
I did not use serial console, so it's possible that's what's fouling you
up. I see you downloaded alpha.img rather than building it yourself.
Are you sure the kernel within contains support for serial console? Can
you hook up a monitor for the install process? Just about any
same-vintage PCI graphics card should be sufficient for just a text
console display.
I used dhcpd, not bootp, for this process. Much easier to configure.
Here's the dhcpd.conf entry I used for this system:
host bret {
hardware ethernet 0:0:f8:24:e4:1e;
filename "tftpboot.img";
fixed-address 192.168.1.125;
server-name "jekyl.doug.ties.org";
}
You should also make sure you have the latest console firmware. The good
news is you can flash the firmware over tftp/bootp! Very cool! If you're
unable to find it, I think I have the proper file lying around -- contact
me offlist.
Good luck!
-Doug
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