Re: Netbooting
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 07:49:49AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> Well the way it's laid out in there, holding the n key during boot
> makes OF look for a bootp server. If you have that yaboot.conf
> employed you should get yaboot loaded without having to go in
> OpenFirmware.
>
> OTOH, if you're troubleshooting, the OF device is enet:, so it should
> be something like
>
> boot enet:
I always just do [Cmd]-[Option]-O-F, and (for a Linux netboot) type
'enet:,\yaboot'. Is there an option number or string that identifies
an Apple system trying to netboot, and if so, how can I use that to
specify the boot file path to pass to the client in ISC DHCPd's
dhcpd.conf?
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