Re: Netboot Debian on Indy

["J. Scott Kasten" <jscottkasten@yahoo.com>]

Sounds like you need an intermediate boot loader.  Honestly, I've had 
issues getting my custom kernels to load directly, even from the volume 
header of the disk unless I used an intermediate boot loader, then they 
are fine.  (That was IP32 arch.)

Arcload supposedly supports pulling the kernel by TFTP and comes in 32 and 
64 bit flavors for the appropriate target arches.

http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/ARCLoad

Not sure if it will help in your specific situation or not, but worth a 
look.

-S-

On Thu, 31 May 2007, Joerg Mechnich wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> after I successfully installed Debian to my Indy's HD I decided that the
> disk was too noisy and I wanted to try to netboot the machine from my
> NSLU. After fiddling around with tftp I finally got it right, but it did
> not want to boot the ELF kernel. I checked with the file command, which
> format the Etch netinstall image was in and found out that it was in
> ECOFF format. I read in the Internets that you could produce an .ecoff
> kernel during compilation but that there was also a tool called
> elf2ecoff, which converts an existing kernel image.
> So I downloaded the source, compiled the executable, tried it, got an
> error and after having looked into the code, I noticed that it seems to
> handle only 32-bit elf files.
> I tried to fix it somehow but just got a bit further.
>
> So does anybody know about a way to do this or does it even work at all
> that way ?
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Joerg
>
>
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