Re: netbooting problems

[Colin Walters <walters@debian.org>]

[ Yes, I am going for a record number of replies to oneself ]

Colin Walters <walters@debian.org> writes:

> Oct  2 01:27:52 neutral dhcpd-2.2.x: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:03:93:54:7b:46 via eth1
> Oct  2 01:27:52 neutral dhcpd-2.2.x: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.5.90 to 00:03:93:54:7b:46 via eth1
> Oct  2 01:27:52 neutral dhcpd-2.2.x: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.5.90 from 00:03:93:54:7b:46 via eth1
> Oct  2 01:27:52 neutral dhcpd-2.2.x: DHCPACK on 192.168.5.90 to 00:03:93:54:7b:46 via eth1
> Oct  2 01:27:57 neutral dhcpd-2.2.x: DHCPINFORM from 192.168.5.90
> 
> And my laptop just shows a blinking earth picture.
> 
> By the way, does anyone know how to netboot from Open Firmware?  

In case anyone cares, I've gotten this to work.  The magic OF
incantation was:

boot enet:,yaboot

And everything just worked.  Holding 'n' while booting doesn't work
for me, though.