On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 05:09:47PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 04:26:06PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote:
> > Hello Debian Install System Team,
> >
> > My first netboot from Open Firmware on an ibook2 failed.
> >
> > Getting into OF went fine.
> > The TFTP of yaboot and yaboot also.
> > What I see from the tcpdump log, it also fetches vmlinux
>
> I didn't see initrd.gz
>
> Is it correct that it is loaded later?
>
> >
> > <screenshot>
> > Debian GNU/Linux Network boot
> > Welcome to yaboot version 1.3.6
^^^^^
> > Enter "help" to get some basic usage information
> > boot: linux
> > Please wait, loading kernel...
> >
> > CLIENT: (macadres) (IP-address)
> > SERVER: (macadres) (IP-address)
> > Transfer FILE: vmlinux method 'load' failed 00000300
> >
> > Can't read Elf e_ident/e_type/e_machine info
> > boot: (cursor)
> > <screenshot/>
> >
>
> With the images from beta4 the same results :-(
They are also larger then 4Mb
>
>
> >
> > The images (vmlinux & initrd.gz ) come from ~luther/daily
> > (see my earlier posting for exact URL )
> >
> >
> > Any hints on what has to be changed for better results?
Yes, Google is your friend.
At http://lists.penguinppc.org/yaboot-users/2003/yaboot-users-200307/msg00017.html
there is
| > > > Could it be that vmlinux-nfs-2.4.7 is too big (4200812 bytes)?
|
| thats the problem, yaboot 1.x only allocates a 4MB buffer for tftp
| incomings. yaboot 2.0 will work better. (when its done).
|
| --
| Ethan Benson
| http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
> >
> Pointers to "known-good" images are also welcome.
Images are probaly fine, I will check with yaboot 1.3.12
>
> >
> >
> > Cheers
> > Geert Stappers
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