Re: Network Boot Problems
On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Eric Reischer wrote:
> I'm having a small problem that is turning out to be a bigger pain than I
> expected. I have an IBM RS/6000 machine that I'm installing Linux on, but
> when I try to get it to boot off the network, it contacts my bootp server
> (which happens to be an intel Debian box) and starts to download the
> file. The strange thing is, it only fully completes the download about 1/4
> of the times I try to get it to download. Usually, when I type in 'boot
> net' to get it to boot from the network, it loads anywhere between 1500 and
> 2000 packets, and then stops. About 20 seconds later, it gives me a packet
> error (which on IBM machines is just a bunch of numbers) and the network
> boot fails. Other times, if I'm lucky, it'll go through fine. This is a
> pain because it makes booting kernel images >1Meg really hard because the
> bigger it is the more of a chance of it failing part-way through. Anybody
> seen this before?
Is this on a heavily loaded network? TFTP loaders in boot monitors may have
limited support to resolve Ethernet collisions.
Try moving the machines to a separate network segment.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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