Re: Netbooting
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 10:35:45AM -0600, Derrik Pates wrote:
> 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?
man 8 bootpd talks about the RFC's they use...
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