Re: Netbooting odyssey (SGI Indy)
Meelis Roos wrote:
> This mail is sent here to leave a googlable trace of my solutions to
> Indy netboot problems.
>
> I have a SGI Indy, 100 MHz R4600PC with onboard 10mbps ethernet. It was
> running IRIX fine, serving as a X-Terminal (so I knew the networking was
> functional).
>
> I tried to netboot it from a Linux host (running Debian unstable).
>
> First, bootpd answered with packets that had DF (don't fragment) bit
> set. Turning PMTU off in /proc did not seem to help for some reason(???).
It most likely did, the DF bit itself doesn't matter (and remains
set for me as well).
[snip]
> Also, to get any answer back to my Indy at all, I needed to use a
> crossover cable to the boot server (with Intel NIC using e100 driver but
> that's probably unimportant) because my Trendnet TE100-S55E 5-port
> 10/100 switch and Indy don't communicate (Indy doesn't seem to get any
> answers, at least in PROM mode).
Sounds like this was the root of the problem.
> Finally, I was able to do boot -f bootp()/netboot-boot.img and see that
> it does not find a working console on the Indy.
What exactly was the last output there?
Thiemo
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