Bug#140579: boot-floppies: [i386] boot-floppies 3.0.21 fail to load root.bin via tftp
[Michael, please retain the CC to the BTS].
"Michael R. Schwarzbach" <spg@fs.tum.de> writes:
> | Is anyone on this list able to test i386 / tftp and see if it's really
> | broken? If so, this is an "important" bug. It's easy enough to fix
> | -- e.g, just disable TFTP on i386 if we have to.
>
> i have written this to the bug a few days ago:
> i had a look at the cvs-sources of boot-floppies:
> IMHO the bug is in /tftpboot.sh:
[...]
> a root.bin is only appended to sparc, arm, mips and mipsel. so the
> bootfloppies should be broken on all other platforms.
Not necessarily. First off, currently, the following arches don't
support TFTP at all, e.g., they don't have any special tftp images:
s390, powerpc, hppa
Actually, I'm a little suprised to see PowerPC there! Is this list
right?
We might need to add i386 to that list. The question in my mind is,
does TFTP booting work at all on i386? It's possible that it works
even if we don't have root.bin in an initrd? E.g., by loading the
root filesystem with NFS root?
If not, the easiest thing is to simply disable TFTP on i386...
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