Hello,
When I try to boot the Debian Live gnome-desktop flavor (6.0.7 netboot), with the fetch=tftp://... boot parameter, the transfer of the squashfs image stops after about 640 MB. The boot process also stops at that point, with the following display:
/private/tftpboot/fi 0% | | 0 - stalled -
However, booting does succeed with the standard flavor (6.0.6 netboot), with the same boot parameters, ending at a shell prompt.
The archive file is:
http://live.debian.net/cdimage/release/6.0.7/i386/net/debian-live-6.0.7-i386-gnome-desktop-net.tar.gz
The dhcp/tftp servers are bootpd and tftpd in Mac OS X 10.5.8.
The amount of data reached before the transfer stops is about 640 MB. This could be limited by the block size times the number of blocks (10240 bytes/block * 65535 blocks = about 640 MB), so a fix might be to increase the block size, as in the following patch:
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--- a/scripts/live
+++ b/scripts/live
@@ -784,8 +784,8 @@
ip="$(dirname $url | sed -e 's|tftp://||g' -e 's|/.*$||g')"
rfile="$(echo $url | sed -e "s|tftp://$ip||g")"
lfile="$(basename $url)"
- log_begin_msg "Trying tftp -g -b 10240 -r $rfile -l ${dest}/$lfile $ip"
- tftp -g -b 10240 -r $rfile -l ${dest}/$lfile $ip
+ log_begin_msg "Trying tftp -g -b 65464 -r $rfile -l ${dest}/$lfile $ip"
+ tftp -g -b 65464 -r $rfile -l ${dest}/$lfile $ip
;;
*)
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65464 bytes/block would be the maximum allowed block size, according to the tftp(1) manpage.